Any person licensed under section fifty-four or fifty-nine shall, before junking or authorizing the junking of any motor vehicle, remove therefrom the registration number plates and the vehicle identification plates, and forward them forthwith to the registrar of motor vehicles. The registrar may notify the licensing authority which issued the license to any person who has failed to comply with the provisions of this section of such failure and said authority shall suspend or revoke such license and shall not thereafter reinstate, renew or issue any such license to such person without the written consent of the registrar.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, § 67A