Selling a junk or dead car in Lebanon

If screening it is more trouble than it is worth, we buy whole non-running and junk cars. You sell the whole car as it sits, with free pickup anywhere in the US.

Junk on private property

Section 517.01 lists wrecked and abandoned automobiles, and their parts, as junk. Storing junk on private property anywhere but inside a building is a nuisance, unless the zoning code allows it there.

The City Manager or a designee sends the notice to the owner of record in the Warren County Recorder's files, to the occupant, or to both. It sets a reasonable time to fix the problem, no less than two days and no more than ten after service. Miss that deadline and the city may clean it up itself; the bill is then written onto the property's tax duplicate and attaches to the land as a lien.

Property Maintenance answers at (513) 228-3157. Code enforcement sits under Planning and Zoning, at (513) 228-3170.

Street parking and impound

Section 351.14 caps any parked car at 72 consecutive hours on a public street, meter spaces aside. Section 351.15 goes further for an "unsafe vehicle," one that looks inoperable because of heavy damage, "missing wheels, tires, motor or transmission" among the examples: it may not be parked on any street or highway at all.

Section 303.10 lets police impound a car left unattended or abandoned for over 72 consecutive hours on a street or on private land without permission, or one wrecked so badly it no longer runs. The Division of Police charges $50 to remove and impound it and $10 for every day of storage. The car goes back to the registered owner only after bond is posted or fines are paid, or a court orders release, and the impound and storage charges are settled.

Release paperwork comes from the Police Division at 25 W. Silver Street, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The police line is (513) 932-2010.

Title office on Dave Avenue

Warren County's Clerk of Courts title office at 19 Dave Ave., Suite A, is about 1.1 miles northeast of the center of Lebanon as the crow flies; call (513) 695-1175. The two Mason offices, 773 Reading Rd. and 4780 Socialville Foster Rd., Suite T, are about 8 and 8.7 miles southwest.

Sign the title assignment with a notary watching; Ohio requires it of the seller. Then unbolt your plates. A sale cancels the Ohio registration, and the plates belong with you, not the buyer.

Getting an offer

A short description is all it takes to start, online or at (877) 421-6008: make, model and year, rough miles, running or not, and title status. Mason, Middletown and Fairfield are nearby towns, each with rules of its own.