§ 26-122.01. Curbstoning, parking and/or selling or offering for sale vehicles on County roads, County property, County right-of-way, prohibited; providing for the seizure of vehicles.

(a)

Pursuant to State law, Transportation Article, Section 15-101 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, a person who offers to sell three or more vehicles during any 12-month period is presumed to have acquired the vehicles for resale purposes. A person who sells the referenced amount of cars during the stated time period is deemed to be a dealer and is subject to obtaining a dealer license pursuant to State law. Persons committing curbstoning are deemed to be selling vehicles as an unlicensed vehicle dealer, subject to State regulation.

(b)

Curbstoning may also consist of one or more of the following criteria:

(1)

The license plates are out of State, issued temporarily, are dealer tags and/or are missing altogether;

(2)

The seller admits that he/she is a dealer but says that it is a personal vehicle;

(3)

The seller insists on a cash payment;

(4)

The vehicle's title is not in the seller's name;

(5)

The seller offers to do the tag and title paperwork;

(6)

The title is recently issued or the seller refuses to show you the title;

(7)

The seller gives only a pager or cell phone number;

(8)

The same number is listed for multiple vehicles in the newspaper or outdoor location;

(9)

The vehicles are for sale by the roadside;

(10)

The seller wants to meet at a different location other than his or her residence; and

(11)

Any one of these criteria may be indicative, but not conclusive, of curbstoning.

(c)

Unless otherwise permitted by law, a person shall not sell or offer to sell a vehicle or vehicles on any County roads, County property or in a County right-of-way.

(d)

After receiving a warning from an enforcement agency, which may include the Prince George's County Police Department, a person that continues to sell or offers to sell a vehicle or vehicles in violation of this Act, shall be subject to the enforcing agency, which may include the Department of the Environment, seizing the vehicle or vehicles and taking them to a County storage facility.

(CB-63-2016)