Selling a dead or junk car in Kingman

No city code found, so state law leads

We looked online for Kingman's municipal code and found nothing. Everything below is Arizona statute, and Kingman may layer its own ordinance on top. State law specifically lets cities and towns adopt ordinances for hauling abandoned vehicles off public or private property, so ask the city before treating state law as the whole story.

Arizona prohibits abandoning a vehicle anywhere, a private lot included. Seventy-two unattended hours on public or private property count as prima facie evidence of abandonment. Beside a road, in the right-of-way, the figure drops to 48.

Arizona also has its own meaning of junk: a vehicle too far gone to dismantle, salvage or restore at a profit. With a car like that, once notice is sent, MVD can allow a recycler or the landowner to get rid of it.

A stranger's car on your Kingman lot

Two rules help when the dead car is not yours. Towing from private property requires the landowner's signed authorization on an MVD form. And when a tenant's car sits in an authorized space, expired registration by itself does not prove it was abandoned. Car abandoned on your property goes further.

Old registration fees stay behind

Buyers sometimes balk at a car that sat unregistered for years in a Kingman yard. Back vehicle license tax on a Kingman car can only be charged to someone who owned it while it sat unregistered. Whoever owns it afterward does not owe it.

Title and plates

Owners in Arizona often hold no paper title at all, because the state keeps them electronically. Sell through eTitle Transfer, or sign the paper title on its back and hand it over as the car leaves. MVD lists no notary among the seller steps. Replacing a lost title costs $4, online or with form 96-0236.

Unbolt the plates; Arizona leaves them with the seller. Over the next 30 days, move them to another car, return them, or file an affidavit of destruction. Report the sale within 10 days with a free Sold Notice.

Emissions testing does not reach Mohave County. It covers only parts of the Phoenix and Tucson areas.

Nearby

By crow-flight distance, Bullhead City is 31.4 miles from Kingman and Lake Havasu City 52.4. More on statewide rules at Arizona.

Getting an offer

Use the form or ring (877) 421-6008. Selling a car in Kingman? The offer form is the quickest start. Pickup goes to where the car is parked, in town or out on acreage.