Ohio Revised Code Title XLVII. Occupations Professions § 4738.01

(A) “Motor vehicle salvage dealer” means any person who engages in business primarily for the purpose of selling salvage motor vehicle parts and secondarily for the purpose of selling at retail salvage motor vehicles or manufacturing or selling a product of gradable scrap metal.

(B) “Salvage motor vehicle” means any motor vehicle which is in a wrecked, dismantled, or worn out condition, or unfit for operation as a motor vehicle.

(C) “Salvage motor vehicle auction” means any person who on the person's behalf or as an agent for a third party engages in business for the purpose of auctioning salvage motor vehicles.

(D) “Salvage motor vehicle pool” means any person who as an agent for a third party engages in business for the purpose of storing, displaying, and offering for sale salvage motor vehicles.

(E) “Engaging in business” means commencing, conducting, or continuing in business, or liquidating a business when the liquidator thereof holds the liquidator out to be conducting such business; making a casual sale or otherwise making transfers in the ordinary course of business when the transfers are made in connection with the disposition of all or substantially all of the transferor's assets is not engaging in business.

(F) “Retail sale” or “sale at retail” means the act or attempted act of selling, bartering, exchanging, or otherwise disposing of salvage motor vehicles or salvage motor vehicle parts to a person who purchases the salvage motor vehicle or salvage motor vehicle parts for use as a consumer.

(G) “Authorized purchaser” means a person who purchases a salvage motor vehicle from a salvage motor vehicle auction or salvage motor vehicle pool and who satisfies either of the following criteria:

(H) “Business” includes any activities engaged in by any person for the object of gain, benefit, or advantage either direct or indirect.

(I) “Casual sale” means any transfer of a salvage motor vehicle by a person other than a motor vehicle salvage dealer, salvage motor vehicle auction, or salvage motor vehicle pool, to a person who purchases the salvage motor vehicle for use as a consumer.