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Vehicle Registration Requirements

Vehicles Exempt From Registration
Basic Requirements for Obtaining a Certificate of Title
Title Corrections
Completion of Vehicle Application (DPSMV 1799)
Justice of the Peace Court Orders
Secure Power of Attorney
Power of Attorney/Mandate
Name Usage on Vehicle Certificates of Title
Delivery of Certificate of Title To Purchaser of Motor Vehicle
Open Titles
Application for Title on Antique, Classic, or Vintage Vehicles When No Current Record of Ownership Exists
Good Faith Possession of a Vehicle
Duplicate Certificates of Origin
Headquarters Procedures For Processing DOTD Violation Tickets Involving Overweight, No Plates, and/or Expired Plates and Improper Plates
Duplicate Registration Certificates
Proration/Credit Given on Truck License Plates
Duplicate Titles
Foreign Title Held by Lienholder
Forced Registration
Successions/Judgments of Possession
Small Successions
Affidavit of Heirship
Loss of Properly Assigned Title After Death of Titled Owner
Sales Taxes Charged on Termination of Leases
Permit To Sell for Stored/Repaired Vehicles
Abandoned Vehicles-Sale or Use by Municipalities and Parochial Authorities
Cancelled Permits To Sell
Duplicate Permits To Sell
Unreceived Permits To Sell
Disposal Of Junked Vehicles
Procedure for Disposal of Abandoned Vehicles Removed for Municipal & Parochial Authorities
Official Report Of Stored Vehicle (ORSV)
Self-Park Storage Facility Procedure for Abandoned Vehicles
Sales By Trustee in Bankruptcy
Judicial Bill of Sale
Sales On Standard Form "SF97"
Transactions Involving Corporations
Recyclers as Retail Dealers
Volunteer Fire Departments
Nonconformity to Warranty by Sellers
Glider Kits
Unassembled Trailer Kits
Mopeds or Motorized Bicycles
Classification of a Factory Built Home as Immovable
Mobile Office Units
Act of Immobilization
Titling Motor Homes
Permit to Dismantle Vehicle
Sales of Repossessions
Vehicle Sales by Pawnbroker
Recording Liens on Vehicles
Acceptable Proof of Lien Cancellation/Prescription
Lien Termination Statements
Electronic Lien And Title Program
Substitution of Collateral
Transfer of Equity or Sale With Assumption of Mortgage or Security Agreement
Sales Tax on the Assumption of Mortgage
Floor Plan (or Dealer's Wholesale) Mortgage
Cancellation of Motor Vehicle Chattel Mortgage by IRS Tax Lien Sale
Acceptable Certifying Documents for Purpose of Executory Process
Imported and Grey Market Vehicles
Vehicle Certificate of Title Law (Salvage Vehicles)
Rebuilt Salvaged Vehicles
Out-of-State Branded Titles
Insurance Settlements When Damage is Less Than 75% of the N.A.D.A. Book Retail Value
Salvage Retention
Hail-Damaged Vehicles
Supporting Documents Indicate Vehicle May Be Total Loss
Consignments
Boat And Utility Trailers From Out-of-State
Sales Tax on Vehicle Transfers
Criteria Necessary To Qualify as a Trade-in
Vendors Compensation Allowed for the Collection Of Sale/Use Tax
Out-of-State Transfers And Reciprocity With Other States
Tax Exempt Transactions and Computer Codes For Public Entities
Exempt From Sales Tax Lease/Rental Vehicles
Transactions Exempt From Sales or Use Tax - Sheltered Workshop for Mentally Retarded
Exempt From State Sales Tax - Federally Recognized Indian Reservations
Exempt From Sales Tax - Ducks Unlimited And Waterfowl & Wetland Habitat
Exempt From Sales Tax - Independently Owned School Buses
Exempt From Sales Tax - Federal and State Credit Unions
Exempt From Sales Tax - Wheelchair Lifts
Exempt From Sales Tax - Electric Cooperatives
Exemption From Sales Tax - Tulane University and Independent Colleges
Hold for Revenue/Exempt From State Sales Tax Mobile Homes Titled in the Name of a Tribal Member of a Federally Recognized Indian Reservation
Tax / Registration Exemption For Military Personnel / Nonresident Students
Act Of Donation / Manual Gift
Vehicles Donated / Loaned to Schools
Even Trade
Non-Use Affidavit Filed To Exempt From License Fees/Penalty
Penalty and Interest
Federal Retailer's Excise Tax
Federal Heavy Vehicle Use Tax
Title Issuance When Dealer Fails To Remit Tax
Request for Refunds
Method Of Payment and Coding
Request for Title History
Fees
Affidavit of Physical Inspection
Unreceived Titles
Property Settlements
Titling And Registering an Autocycle
Water Damaged Vehicle
Certificate Of Destruction
Issuance of a Title to a Stolen Vehicles (Unrecovered Theft)
Dealer Codes
Required Odometer Statements
Situations and Application Regarding Odometer Statements
Sales by Self-Service Storage Facility
Off-Road Vehicles
Driver's License, Id Card, Employer Identification Number on Motor Vehicle Transactions
Kit Cars
Assembled Vehicles
Voluntary Surrender of License Plates
Non-Use Statements Filed Relative to No Liability Security Coverage on a Vehicle
Handling Fees
Assessments For Sales/Use Tax
Tow-Dollies
License Plates Removed by Dealers
For-Hire Carrier Tax Exemption
Tax Exemption for Vehicles Used in Interstate Commerce
Lost or Stolen License Plate / Validation Sticker
Canceled/Rescinded Sales of Motor Vehicles
Vehicles Sold by Tennessee Valley Authority
Vehicles Seized for Forfeiture
Transactions Involving Trusts
Out-of-State Motor Vehicle Inspection Stickers
Automobile and Truck Demonstrators
Auto Title Companies
Public License Tag Agent
Required Proof of Liability Insurance Prior to Registration of Vehicles
Trailers - Homemade/Shop-built
Low Billing Tolerances Tax Administration No. 30.17
Registration Status and Copies of Vehicle Records
Title Issued in the Name of a Minor
Non-Notary States and Requirements
Motor Vehicle Inspection
Low Speed Vehicles
Notary Requirements
Auto Hulk
Alternative Procedures To Transfer Vehicles
Mini-trucks
Utility Terrain Vehicles
Golf Carts
Expedited Title
Vehicles Titled to Dealers for Resale Purposes
Toll Violator Flag (TV)
Military Surplus Vehicles