Selling a junk car in Brawley

If the car in your yard is past saving, we buy whole non-running and junk cars. You sell the whole car as it sits, and there is free pickup anywhere in the US, Brawley included.

The steps Brawley follows

Once the city's vehicle abatement officer finds one of these cars on private or public land in Brawley, Section 17.99.7 lets the officer start removal. The code sets the schedule from there:

1. The notice. Under Brawley's Section 17.99.10, the city must give "a ten-day notice of intention to abate and remove the vehicle." It goes out registered or certified to the car's legal owner and last registered owner, plus the landowner named on the last equalized assessment roll. It warns the landowner to remove the car "within 10 days from the date of mailing of this notice." If the landowner doesn't, the city removes it, and "the costs thereof, together with administrative costs, will be assessed to you."
2. The hearing. Under 17.99.11, the vehicle owner or the landowner has ten days from the mailing to request a public hearing. The planning director, or a subordinate the director designates, acts as hearing officer. A landowner can mail in a sworn statement saying the car is not theirs to deal with. That counts as the request, and they do not need to show up.
3. The disposal. Under Section 17.99.14, the car can be sent to a scrap yard or automobile dismantler's yard five days after the later of two dates: when the nuisance order is adopted or when the decision is mailed.

If the landowner and the vehicle's owner both sign releases, no notice is needed. A car hauled off under this article is finished. Under Brawley's code, the car "shall not thereafter be reconstructed or made operable." Brawley allows one way out: a car that can qualify for historical vehicle or horseless carriage license plates.

Street parking and big trucks

Section 17.91-14 ties street impounds to Vehicle Code 22651(w). Vehicle Code 22651 lets Brawley tow a car parked in one place for 72 hours or longer when a local ordinance bans that.

A dead work truck has a rule of its own. Section 17.95-2 bans parking commercial trucks over twenty-four feet long or three tons gross weight, at any time, on streets beside the city's residential and mixed-use areas. The same section lets a truck tractor park there on a permit.

Civil Code 3068.1 gives a Brawley tow yard a possessory lien on any car it holds. Civil Code 3072 governs the sale of a Brawley car worth $4,000 or less. Brawley tow yards post a "Notice of Pending Lien Sale" first, then sell the car 31 to 41 days later. In Brawley, an owner who wants a judge to hear it returns the "Declaration of Opposition" within 10 days. More in towed or impounded.

California paperwork from Imperial County

Imperial County has no title counter. California handles titles at state-run DMV field offices.

• The California Certificate of Title gets signed by the Brawley seller, plus any lienholder that is listed. The buyer pays the $15 transfer fee at DMV. You won't find a notary among the DMV's steps for sellers.
• REG 138 is due from a Brawley seller no later than 5 days after the sale. The DMV takes it through dmv.ca.gov/nrl or in the mail.
• Ordinary plates usually stay with the car. A personalized plate can be reassigned to another vehicle for a fee.
• No Smog Check applies when a Brawley car goes to be wrecked or dismantled.
• If the title is gone, REG 227 comes first, and a replacement costs $28. See junk car with no title.

Getting an offer

Phone (877) 421-6008 or start online. Selling a car in Brawley? The form walks you through the few details we ask. We can load it at a home near City Hall, beside a field, or in a repair shop lot. Within the Imperial Valley, Imperial is 10.0 miles off in a straight line, El Centro 13.4 and Calexico 20.4. State rules are on the California page.