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An Act To Allow a Wrecker To Transport the Number of Vehicles Authorized by Manufacturer Specifications for the Wrecker
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §101, sub-§93, as amended by PL 2017, c. 165, §2, is further amended to read:
 
93. Wrecker.   "Wrecker" means a motor vehicle with hoisting apparatus and special equipment designed and used for towing or carrying wrecked or disabled vehicles or freeing vehicles stalled or stuck in snow, mud or sand, when such a motor vehicle in fact is being used for one of those purposes. "Wrecker" does not include a vehicle designed to carry or tow more than 2 vehicles on its own body.
Sec. 2.  29-A MRSA §2093  is enacted to read:
§ 2093. Wreckers
A wrecker may not carry or tow more vehicles than allowed by the manufacturer specifications for that wrecker.
 
SUMMARY
Current law provides that "wrecker" does not include a vehicle designed to carry or tow more than 2 vehicles on its own body. This bill strikes that language and provides that a wrecker may not carry or tow more vehicles than allowed by the manufacturer specifications for that wrecker.