Selling a dead or junk car in Brownsburg

Getting a towed car back

Section 74.08 spells out recovery. Before you can take a car from the place it was impounded, you must "present to a member of the Police Department evidence of his identity and right to possession of the vehicle, sign a receipt for its return, and pay the reasonable towing and storage charge."

If the officer can find the owner from the registration records in the car, written notice goes out at once. Otherwise, if three days pass and the owner still doesn't have the car, the officer mails a notice describing it and saying where and when it was taken, why, and where it is being kept.

Section 93.37 covers a car that is "an immediate hazard to the public safety" in a public place. Brownsburg police may impound it right away, then have 24 hours to send the owner, if known, a certified mail notice. Impounded cars stay at a town garage, or a private one the town designates, until claimed or disposed of under the Indiana Code.

Snow routes and downtown limits

Brownsburg's snow emergency routes include Grant Street and Odell Street running from Main Street (Section 74.10). If a car stalls on a route covered in "snow, sleet, or ice," or while a parking ban is on, Section 74.07 says the driver "shall take immediate action to have the vehicle towed or pushed off the roadway." A raised hood does not excuse leaving it. Police may take away a stalled car nobody is moving, or one parked where it blocks snow removal.

Downtown, Schedule I limits parking on listed blocks near Main and Green streets to two consecutive hours between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., except Sundays and legal holidays.

State law applies everywhere in town. Indiana's abandoned-vehicle rules reach any car left more than 48 hours on another person's property without permission, and they bill the owner for removal, storage and disposal, capping storage at $2,000. There could be Brownsburg rules outside the sections we looked at.

Title and plates on East Main Street

A BMV branch we checked is at 860 E. Main St., Brownsburg, IN 46112, under a mile northeast in a straight line. Call it at 888-692-6841.

No notary appears in the BMV's seller steps. All owners on the title sign and print in the seller section. After that, fill in the odometer reading, sale date, price and purchaser. You keep the plates once they're off. The buyer then gets 45 days to retitle the car in their name.

Lost the title on a Brownsburg car? A duplicate is $15.00, plus $25 for a speed title. Or scrap it without a new title using State Form 55018, the $4.00 Certificate of Authority. Hendricks County cars need no emissions test, which Indiana requires only in Lake and Porter counties.

Nearby

Avon is 5.1 miles from Brownsburg, Plainfield 9.8, Zionsville 11.4 and Carmel 15.5. Statewide rules are on the Indiana page.

Getting an offer

Use the form or call (877) 421-6008. Tell us about your Brownsburg car on the offer form. We pick it up next to a garage, at a shop, or in a driveway off one of the snow routes. Thinking about selling parts first? Read part it out or sell it whole.