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An Act To Allow Dealers of Antique Autos To Be Open and Operate on Sundays
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 17 MRSA §3203, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 452, Pt. I, §54 and affected by Pt. X, §2, is amended to read:
 
1. Sales of motor vehicles on Sunday prohibited.   Except as provided in sectionsections 3203-A and 3203-B, on Sunday a person may not:
 
A. Carry on or engage in the business of buying, selling, exchanging, dealing or trading in new or used motor vehicles;
 
B. Open any place of business or lot in which that person attempts to or does engage in the business of buying, selling, exchanging, dealing or trading in new or used motor vehicles; or
 
C. Buy, sell, exchange, deal or trade in new or used motor vehicles.
Sec. 2.  17 MRSA §3203-B  is enacted to read:
§ 3203-B. Antique autos
Notwithstanding section 3203, a person whose primary business involves buying, selling, exchanging, dealing in or trading in antique autos as defined in Title 29-A, section 101, subsection 3 may buy, sell, exchange, deal in and trade in antique autos on Sunday.
 
SUMMARY
This bill exempts from the law prohibiting the sale of motor vehicles on Sunday the sale of antique autos by antique auto dealers.