Selling a junk car in Kingsland

The 72-hour curb rule

The rule covers "any street in the city." It does not ask whether the car runs, has a tag or looks wrecked. Sitting in one spot for 72 hours is enough for the presumption. A car that died at the curb on a Friday evening can reach that mark by Monday.

Kingsland's chapter on wreckers has a section numbered 23-117, titled "Release of impounded vehicles." Its text was not in the material we checked, so ask Kingsland police how to get a towed car back before you go to the lot. Our towed or impounded car guide covers the general steps.

In the yard or driveway

We did not find a Kingsland section on junk cars kept on private land. Georgia law gives a definition instead. Thirty days or more sitting unattended on private land makes a car an "abandoned motor vehicle" under the state's wording. On public land the mark is five days, if it looks like nobody plans to come back for it. Kingsland may add rules we did not see, so ask City Hall before you lean on the 30-day figure.

If the car broke down and went to a shop around Kingsland, there is one more state clock. Georgia also treats a car as "abandoned" when nobody claims it from a garage, dealer or wrecker for 30 days.

When a wrecker has it

Georgia sets the pace once a car is hauled off. Within 15 calendar days of the tow, the storage company must notify every owner by certified letter or face to face. Its notice has to warn that ten calendar days later it can ask a judge to foreclose on its lien, and a judge can order the car sold.

Camden County title and tag work

Titles in Georgia belong to the Department of Revenue, yet the paperwork happens at a county tag office. For Camden County we looked at the office at 200 E 4th Street in Woodbine (912-576-3248). From downtown Kingsland, it lies roughly 9 miles to the northeast on a map. Camden may run other locations too.

A Georgia sale has two halves: hand over a signed title, and shut off the registration.

• Flip the title over. Under Seller, print your name, then sign; every co-owner on the title repeats that.
• Mileage goes in as whole miles. Leave the ink clean, since a scratched-out or erased title can be voided.
• Unscrew the tag and keep it. Georgia tags never pass to the buyer.
• End the registration with Form MV-18J or on the DRIVES e-Services site, and only then call the insurer.

Title gone missing? Form MV-1 and $8.00 buy a new one at the Woodbine counter. Georgia does not require a title for 1985 and earlier models, so for those a bill of sale carries the deal. See junk car with no title and after you sell.

Near Kingsland

St. Marys is 14.0 miles away and Brunswick 27.7, both measured in a straight line. A straight line to Hinesville runs 68.4 miles. For rules across the state, see the Georgia page.

Getting an offer

Selling a car in Kingsland? Dial (877) 421-6008 or send us the offer form. The truck meets it in a Kingsland driveway, at a curb by the downtown storefronts, or on a shop lot in Woodbine.