“Essential parts” are all integral and body parts of a vehicle of a type required to be registered under this code, the removal, alteration, or substitution of which would tend to conceal the identity of the vehicle or substantially alter its appearance.
Cal. Veh. Code § 315
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Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.
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