Text 15261, 59 rader
Skriven 2005-10-30 23:21:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROY WITT
Ärende: License Plates
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-=> Quoting Roy Witt to Frank Scheidt <=-

 RW>> Now, in Texas, if you find an old set of plates that might have been
 RW>> on or from the same era of an old car that you now own, you can buy
 RW>> a set and have them transferred to that old car. Of course, these
 RW>> plates go for a premium here.
 
 FS> In Illinois the plates stayed with the owner when the car was
 FS> sold.

 RW> It's been too long for me to remember that. I do remember going to a
 RW> guy in town who processed renewals and issued new plates. No motor
 RW> vehicle department in town at that time. Later on, there was a MVD, but
 RW> I was in California by then.
 
 FS> In Michigan, OTOH, the plates stay with the *car* when the
 FS> car is sold.  That caused a peculiar situation when I moved from
 FS> Illinois to Michigan.  I sold my car with Illinois plates and
 FS> they stayed on the car so the buyer, a Michigan resident, was
 FS> driving around for six months or so with *Illinois* plates.  I
 FS> don't know what would have happened if he had violated some law
 FS> and the license would have been spotted.  Fortunately nothing
 FS> happened and the plates expired.

 RW> That's the case in California. The plates stay with the car, unless
 RW> they're special order plates. This is why my Amateur Radio plates went
 RW> with me and not the car. However, in California, they take care of
 RW> your scenairo by having the seller fill out a notice of sale and
 RW> sending it in to the DMV. You're released of any responsiblity, at the
 RW> time and date you sign that notice, for the car and any liablity if the
 RW> new owner gets into an accident.

Selling a car in Michigan involves a peculiar technique.  If you 
trade in your car to a dealer and sign the title over to him, at 
that instant it's *his* property and you have no further 
responsibility.  However if you sell the car to another 
individual, when you sign the title over to him the car is still 
*your* property, with *your* responsibility -- even though 
you've signed the title over to him and he's paid you.  It 
doesn't become *his* responsibility until he registers it at the 
Secretary of State's office (there's one in most cities).  So the 
proper thing to do is to take him to the Secretary of State's 
office, sell the car to him *there* and get it registered in his 
name.

I didn't know this when I once sold a car to another individual.  
*Again* I lucked out (as I did with the Illinois license plate) 
for the new owner didn't get into any trouble with it.  When he 
applied for a license the next year the car was finally *his* 
responsibility.  If he had gotten into a wreck it would have 
really created a problem since the car (still *my* property) 
had no insurance on it as I had transferred the insurance to 
my new car.  Cars are *required* to carry insurance here.

... Belladonna: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison.

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