Selling a dead or junk car in Banning

Banning's abatement path, step by step

Chapter 10.28 leans on state authority, Vehicle Code 22660. Banning's own findings say stored wrecks tend "to invite plundering" and "to create fire hazards." Section 8.48.340 adds that letting such a vehicle sit on your premises is itself "a public nuisance."

• Banning sends its abatement notice through the post, registered or certified. It goes to whoever the county roll lists as landowner, and to the registered and legal owners on record.
• Within ten days of that mailing, a written request to Banning's department of building and safety buys you a hearing. Landowners who had nothing to do with the car may submit a sworn statement saying so, rather than attend.
• Miss that window and Banning's building and safety staff may haul the car.
• Releases speed things up. If both owners sign them, or the car lacks its motor, transmission or wheels and is "not capable of being towed" (with other conditions met), Banning can move faster. The owner still hears before final disposal, and a car left unclaimed at the scrap yard "within twelve days after the notice to dispose of vehicle is mailed" can be disposed of.

At a hearing, Banning may assess administrative costs, attorney fees and the removal bill against the land.

Curbside in Banning: 72 hours, then 200 feet

Section 10.16.050 forbids parking on "any highway, street, road or alley for a consecutive period of longer than seventy-two hours." Section 10.12.045 adds a posted warning. The car must go "to a location more than two hundred (200) feet away" within 72 hours, or Banning removes it "at the owner's expense." Nudging it forward a few car lengths changes nothing. Impound and storage charges in Banning fall on the owner, and on whoever parked it if that is someone else.

Selling a Banning car under California rules

Titles here are state business, handled by the California DMV rather than Riverside County.

• As a Banning seller, sign the California Certificate of Title. Any lienholder on a loan signs it too. No notary appears among the DMV's seller steps.
• Next, send the DMV REG 138, the "Notice of Transfer and Release of Liability," online or by post within 5 days of the Banning sale. Any ticket dated after the sale goes to the buyer.
• Ordinary plates usually ride along with the car. Recording it as Junk at the DMV is the exception; those plates are turned in.
• Bound for wrecking or dismantling? Then California waives the Smog Check.

Lost the title? Banning owners begin with REG 227; see junk car with no title. For the insurance and plate wrap-up, read after you sell.

Around Banning

Beaumont sits 5.7 miles off as the crow flies. Yucaipa is 10.2, San Jacinto 11.6 and Hemet 15.7. Statewide rules live on the California page.

Getting an offer

Ring (877) 421-6008 or use the form. Give us a short description of the Banning car you want to sell. Already holding a Banning notice of intention? Give us its mailing date, since your ten days run from it. You sell the whole car as it sits, and pickup is free anywhere in the US. Our truck can load it from the yard, or from the curb where Banning posted its notice.