Junk and dead cars in Douglasville

When a car is past saving, we buy whole non-running and junk cars. Sell the whole car as it sits, with free pickup anywhere in the US, including Douglasville.

What Section 82-153 does and does not cover

The section says plainly that it "shall apply to any vehicle held inside an open carport and to any vehicle notwithstanding its being maintained beneath a cover other than an enclosed building." Only two things escape it:

• a car "enclosed within a building on private property"
• a car held by a business properly zoned and licensed by the city as a service station, repair shop, storage lot or junkyard

In Douglasville that car is "declared a public nuisance." Section 82-155 names who covers it: "Upon proper notice and opportunity to be heard," the vehicle owner plus the landowner or occupant, "either or all of them, shall be responsible for its removal."

Left at a repair shop

The development code holds shops to their own standard. Under Section 2.05, Douglasville repair shops that opened after its cutoff date must store inoperable and dismantled vehicles inside a building or in a lot "enclosed by an eight-foot high opaque fence." Separately, state rules call a car "abandoned" when it stays unclaimed at a repair shop for 30 days.

Tickets, boots and impound lots

Section 82-253 gives you 14 days to answer a parking notice on the windshield. After three or more violations go unpaid, the city sends the owner a notice, and you get ten days to ask in writing for a hearing. When the car is booted or towed, the chief of police tells the registered owner by registered or certified mail inside three business days.

Under Section 82-174, approved impound lots must be in Douglas County and "within one mile of the city limits of Douglasville." An attendant must answer a request within one hour, seven days a week, during the daytime hours the section lists. You may also retrieve personal items from the car while it is held. More in towed or impounded.

Douglas County tag office

One Douglas County tag office we checked is at 6200 Fairburn Rd., (770) 920-7272, roughly 2 miles northwest of downtown Douglasville as the crow flies. Douglas County may have more locations.

No title? A Douglasville car 12 model years old or older can go to a salvage dealer or scrap processor on the owner's signed affidavit, which that buyer must report to the state electronically. Salvage dealers also report every vehicle they buy within 48 hours of close of business. Cars from 1985 or earlier need no title at all, only a bill of sale. See selling with no title.

Douglas County is also in the state's emissions testing zone.

Plates and registration

Keep your plate and sign the title over. After that, end the Douglasville tag with an MV-18J at a Douglas County tag office or through DRIVES e-Services. Stop the insurance last. After you sell and the Georgia page cover the rest.

Getting an offer

Call (877) 421-6008 or use the form for your Douglasville car. We collect off Fairburn Road, at a shop, or from a lot in Mableton or Powder Springs, each 8.9 miles off.