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 106 STAT. 3386 PUBLIC LAW 102-519—OCT. 25, 1992 paragraph, the maximum pimishment shall be doubled with respect to any fine and imprisonment. "(2) INJUNCTIONS.— The Attorney General shall, as appropriate, in the case of any person who violates paragraph (1), commence a civil action for permanent or temporary injunction to restrain such violation.". "(b) DEFINITION.— For purposes of this section, the term 'chop shop' means any building, lot, lacility, or other structure or premise where one or more persons engage in receiving, concealing, destroy- ing, disassembling, dismantling, reassembling, or storing any passenger motor vehicle or passenger motor vehicle part which has been unlawfully obtained in order to alter, counterfeit, deface, destroy, disguise, falsify, forge, obliterate, or remove the identity, including the vehicle identification number or derivative thereof, of such vehicle or vehicle part and to distribute, sell, or dispose of such vehicle or vehicle part in interstate or foreign commerce.". (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.— The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 113 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item: "2322. Chop shops. ". Subtitle B—Targeted Law Enforcement 42 USC 3750a. SEC. 130. GRANT AUTHORIZATION. (a) PURPOSE.— The purpose of this subtitle is to supplement the provisions of the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Locsil Law Enforcement Assistance Program to help the States to curb motor vehicle thefts and the related violence. (b) GRANTS.—The Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance shall make grants to Anti Car Theft Committees submitting applications in compliance with the requirements of this subtitle. 42 USC 3750b. SEC. 131. APPLICATION. (a) SUBMISSION.— To be eligible to receive a grant under this subtitle, a chief executive of an Anti Car Theft Committee shall submit an application to the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance. (b) CONTENT. —The application submitted under subsection (a) shall include the following: (1) A statement that the applicant Anti Car Theft Committee is either a State agency or an agency of a unit of local government. (2) A statement that the applicant Anti Car Theft Committee is or will be financed in part (A) by a fee on motor vehicles registered by the State or possessed or insured within the State (and that such fee is not less than $1 per vehicle), ' or (B) in the same manner and to the same extent as is a similar program financed and implemented in a State like Michigan. (3) An assurance that Federal funds received under a grant under this subtitle shall be used to supplement and not supplant non-Federal funds that would otherwise be available for activities funded under such grant. (4) A statement that the resources of the applicant Anti Car Theft Committee will be devoted entirely to combating motor vehicle theft, including any or all of the following:

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