Selling a junk car in Richmond Hill

Overnight and sight-line rules

The overnight ban is only half of Section 66-3. It also bars parking a vehicle "on the opposite side of the street from a stopped, parked or left standing vehicle" where there is "less than a 200-foot clear view" of it from either direction. So if a neighbor already has a car out, yours cannot go across from it on a stretch where drivers lack that view.

The same section names stretches with no parking on either side at any hour, measured by mile post. One begins at mile post 6.66, 300 feet south of State Route 144. If your car quit on one of those roads, it should not wait there.

In the driveway or yard

We did not find a Richmond Hill section on junk or inoperable cars kept on private property. Georgia law covers the gap. A car left alone 30 days on private land is an "abandoned motor vehicle," and on public land it takes just five days if the owner looks unlikely to return. Richmond Hill may have stricter local rules than the sections we read, so check with City Hall.

If it has been towed

Georgia gives a tow company 15 calendar days from pickup to reach every owner with a letter, delivered by hand or certified mail. Richmond Hill owners get a letter saying the company may go to court on its lien once ten calendar days pass, and a judge can order a sale. See towed or impounded car.

Tag offices we checked

Georgia's Department of Revenue runs titles, and each county's tag office does the counter work. Richmond Hill is in Bryan County, and the three offices we checked are in Hinesville, Savannah and Brunswick, so call ahead to confirm which one will help you:

• 112 N. Main St., Hinesville, phone (912) 876-3389: about 17 miles west, as the crow flies.
• 222 W Oglethorpe Ave #107, Savannah, phone (912) 652-7100: about 18 miles northeast.
• 1725 Reynolds St., Brunswick, phone (912) 554-7000: about 53 miles south.

Since Georgia lets you end a registration on the DRIVES e-Services site, the sale itself may not need a drive at all. On a Richmond Hill title, each owner prints and signs inside the Seller box. Put the Richmond Hill odometer reading in whole miles, with no erasing. The plate stays yours. Registration first, insurance second.

If the title is lost, an $8.00 Form MV-1 replaces it. Georgia skips titles for 1985-and-older models; a bill of sale handles those. See junk car with no title.

Near Richmond Hill

Straight-line distances: Savannah 10.3 miles, Pooler 14.5, Hinesville 18.3. See the Georgia page for state rules, and junk car removal for how we haul off a car that won't run.

Getting an offer

Use the form or call (877) 421-6008. Tell us about your Richmond Hill car on the offer form. Then the truck comes out to a Richmond Hill driveway, a side yard, or a curb before the midnight ban kicks in.