Selling a dead or junk car in Easton

Clearing a dead car off your own land

If the abandoned car is someone else's, Easton gives the property owner a way to remove it. You "may remove or have removed the vehicle at the reasonable expense of the owner of the vehicle," and you then hold a lien for that cost. There is one step first: obtaining PennDOT's "Police Request for Removal of Abandoned Vehicle." The city's fee schedule lists that form at $25. More on this in car abandoned on your property.

Two cars can make a junkyard

Under Section 595-04, a junkyard can be any lot used for storing "two or more unregistered, inoperable motor vehicles." Two dead cars in one backyard can put a homeowner on the wrong side of that definition. Vacant homes have a separate rule. Properties on the city's vacant-property registry must be kept free of junk and "inoperable vehicles," among other things.

Boots, tickets and the 30-day tow

Easton boots cars with unpaid parking fines. Chapter 560 sets these deadlines:

• After 10 calendar days, an extra $15 is charged each day the boot stays on.
• A booted car at a metered space "shall be removed after 10 business days."
• No car stays booted for more than 30 calendar days. After that it is "automatically towed at the owner's expense," on top of the fines.

A car that isn't worth what it owes in tickets is a common reason people sell. See tickets or registration hold.

Title and plates

Pennsylvania doesn't route titles through its counties, so Northampton has no title office. In Easton, the signing happens at a notary, tag shop or dealer approved by PennDOT. Seller signature, hand-printed name and mileage all go on the title while the agent looks on, and any co-owner signs too. Selling to a vehicle salvage dealer or scrap metal processor takes the notary out of it. For a missing title, PennDOT's duplicate form is MV-38O, and it costs $72.00.

You take the plate. Return it to PennDOT, or for $11.00 move it onto a different car. Northampton County falls in the South Central emissions region; PennDOT's publication marks it pending certification. The yearly safety inspection still applies. The Pennsylvania page covers the state rules.

Nearby

As the crow flies, it is 8.8 miles to Bethlehem, 15.0 to Allentown and 43.5 to Hazleton.

Getting an offer

Reach us at (877) 421-6008 or through the form. Share the model year, brand, odometer count, running condition and title situation. We offer free pickup anywhere in the US, whether the car is in your driveway, on a lot facing a boot deadline, or wherever it quit.