Selling a junk car in Moore

What applies when the city code is not online

Our search came up empty for Moore's city code, which means no local junk-car section to quote. Moore may well have one anyway. State law describes its own abandoned-vehicle process as working in addition to local ordinances, and says cities handle junk cars on private property by ordinance. If Moore has written to you about a car, follow that letter first.

The state rules below cover the situations Moore owners ask about most.

A car someone else left on your property

47 O.S. 954A covers this. If you own or lawfully hold the land and reasonably think a stranger's car has sat there 48 hours or longer, or arrived without your permission, you can have it hauled away. The tow must be done by a licensed Class AA wrecker, using a Tow Request and Authorization Form. More on that in car abandoned on your property.

When your own car is the one towed

After a Class AA wrecker takes a car from private land, it has 3 business days to ask the state for the owner. It then has 7 days to mail certified notice saying where the car is. If the wrecker skips those steps, the owner owes no storage.

Holding an abandoned car lawfully gives that holder a special lien covering expenses. Foreclosing it means a sale, preceded by notices posted at three public spots around the county, 10 days or more ahead, with registered mail going to the owner on the posting date. None of that can start until 10 days after the lien arises.

No title? The certificate of ownership

This is the state rule that helps the most with old junk cars. Picture an older car, outside the most recent 10 model years, that will not run, or any car headed to a scrap metal buyer. With the title lost, cancelled or simply unavailable, Service Oklahoma's certificate of ownership lets it change owners anyway.

On it go both parties' names and addresses, the seller's license or Social Security number, plus make, model and VIN. It comes in triplicate. Within 30 days, the seller sends one copy and a $4.00 fee to Service Oklahoma or a licensed tag agency. Our guide to selling with no title covers the other routes.

When you do have the title

Fill in the back, note liens, and take the oath in front of a notary. Electronic titles swap in a notarized Form 718 bill of sale. Pull your plate before the car leaves. Oklahoma plates stay with the owner and cannot pass to the buyer.

Nearby towns

In straight-line miles: Del City 8.5, Norman 9.5, Oklahoma City 9.8 and Midwest City 10.6. The full state rundown is on Oklahoma.

Getting an offer

Reach us at (877) 421-6008 or online. Say what you drive, the odometer figure, if it cranks, and which paperwork you hold: paper title, electronic title, or nothing. We collect from a Moore driveway, a side street, a tow yard, anywhere the car ended up.