### Question
How does STOLEN PROPERTY define chop shop?


### Answer
Under *18 U.S.C. § 2322*, **chop shop** is defined as:

> any building, lot, facility, or other structure or premise where one or more persons engage in receiving, concealing, destroying, 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

#### Citation:
  - *18 U.S.C. § 2322*
  - Heading: **PART I-CRIMES > CHAPTER 113-STOLEN PROPERTY**

