Selling a junk or dead car in Hallandale Beach

What 13-41 rules out

Apart from service stations, repair shops and tow-storage yards, nobody in Hallandale Beach may park or store:

• a "wrecked or junked motor vehicle"
• a car "without wheels and tires mounted"
• a car "not in a movable condition"

The single exception for everyone else is keeping it "within a completely enclosed building."

The residential parking rule, Section 28-33, lists where ordinary cars may go: a hard-paved driveway, an area the city permitted for parking, the corner street side yard, or the side and rear yards. Then comes the catch: "These provisions do not permit parking or storage of junked, wrecked, inoperable or service activity vehicles." A car breaking that section on a public right-of-way or swale can be towed if nobody fixes it "within 24 hours of notification."

Two ways the city ends up towing

Section 28-173 gives the parking enforcement division towing power on rights-of-way and public parking areas. Two triggers matter for a car that has quit:

• it stays illegally parked and unattended "continuously for more than 24 hours after a parking citation has been issued"
• its registered owner has ignored at least five parking citations and was mailed a warning ten or more calendar days earlier

Towed off a private lot

Section 28-186 covers towing from private property without the owner's consent. Away from single-family homes, the lot must carry a permanent sign whose bottom edge sits at least four feet off the ground, and it must stand for 24 hours before any car is taken. Within 30 minutes of a tow, the operator tells the police department the storage site, the time, and the car's make, model, color and plate. Get there before the truck leaves and the car must be unhooked for "a reasonable service fee." Tow operators must also file their rates with police and post the same schedule at the lot.

Florida law limits where the car can go. Section 715.07 caps the storage distance. A county of 500,000 or more people keeps the tow lot inside a 10-mile radius of where the car was hooked; anywhere smaller, the radius is 15 miles. Read towed or impounded for the steps after that.

Florida title and plate rules, from here

Broward's FLHSMV list includes the Plantation office, 1800 NW 66th Ave. in Suite 101, phone (954) 765-4697. It lies about 13 miles northwest of Hallandale Beach's center, measured as the crow flies.

Hallandale sellers sign the title without a notary. The front of a paper title asks you for the buyer's name and street address, the mileage, what the car sold for and the date. Electronic titles take a trip: both parties show up at a service center with photo identification, reassign the title there and state the mileage. Once the car is sold, unscrew the tag. It is still yours, good for a replacement vehicle. Your last job is the state's sale report, HSMV 82050, filed no more than 30 days later.

Asking for an offer

Ring (877) 421-6008 or ask online. Give us the model year, make, model, miles and where the title stands. A parking garage, a side yard or the curb all work for pickup. Nearby pages: Aventura, Hollywood and Sunny Isles Beach, plus the statewide Florida page and car doesn't run.