Missouri Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Bureau, Dealer Licensing Section

Salvage Business License (rebuilder or body shop)

This is the trap that catches collision and body shops specifically, and it is easy to miss because it does not read like an auto repair rule at all — it sits in the state's salvage business statute. Rebuilding or repairing four or more wrecked or dismantled vehicles in a calendar year makes a shop a rebuilder or body shop for licensing purposes, and that status needs its own $130 license, renewed every two years, separate from anything the shop already holds to operate as a repair business. Selling used parts pulled from vehicles triggers a second, equally priced license as a used parts dealer, though the fee is shared with a salvage dealer or dismantler license if a shop holds both. The one exemption is narrow: work that is merely incidental to a sale, repair or service performed by a licensed franchised motor vehicle dealer. A business selling only used tyres is expressly excluded from the whole scheme.