{"id":4606,"date":"2024-02-28T10:34:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T20:24:53","slug":"virginia-passes-auto-recycling-law-to-help-dealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/virginia-passes-auto-recycling-law-to-help-dealers\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia passes auto recycling law to help dealers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Virginia General Assembly Tuesday passed a bill to require auto recyclers to check for liens on vehicles before demolishing or dismantling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Virginia Independent Automobile Dealers Association worked to get <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?ses=241&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=SB545\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 545<\/a> passed. It is scheduled to go into effect July 1, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VIADA Executive Director Alvin Melendez praised the collaborative effort of staff and lawmakers to get the law passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll protect our dealers and not just dealers in Virginia,\u201d Melendez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said it was actually a vehicle out of Florida that ended up being demolished without a check that helped get the movement going to pass the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the new law, an auto recycler will have to do a lien check on any vehicle they come into possession of without a title or salvage certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melendez said the majority of auto recyclers supported the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey told me they don\u2019t have a problem and don\u2019t mind doing the searches,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Virginia General Assembly Tuesday passed a bill to require auto recyclers to check for liens on vehicles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39,3,54],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-compliance","8":"category-industry","9":"category-legislative","10":"cs-entry","11":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}