Irving junk cars: the city rules and how to sell one whole

When a parked car becomes a junked vehicle

Under Irving's code, the first half of the test is paperwork. Both the plate and the inspection certificate have to be missing or out of date. The second half is condition. The car is either damaged in one of three ways (wrecked, dismantled, discarded) or dead past a deadline: 72 hours when parked on public ground, or 30 uninterrupted days on private land. Damage alone needs no clock.

Visibility is what makes it a nuisance. Should a junked car, or any part of it, be visible to people on the street at any point in the year, Irving labels it a public nuisance. The charge is a misdemeanor. Fines top out at $200, and every day it stays, even part of a day, is charged again.

Throwing a tarp over it does not fix this; the cover itself is visible, and that is enough. What works is four walls and a roof, with the car fully hidden inside.

The ten-day notice

The director sends written notice in person, or by certified or signature-confirmation mail. It orders the car removed by the tenth day. Inside those ten days you have three paths:

• Remove the car yourself, or sell it and have it hauled.
• Give the director written permission to remove it. The code counts that as complying.
• Request a trial before a municipal judge by going to, or writing, the court clerk. There is no bond. The judge will treat the car as non-running until you prove it runs.

Let the ten days pass and the director can seize the car, get rid of it, and file a municipal court complaint as well. Shifting it to a different Irving address does not reset anything. Once hauled off by the city it is scrap for good, never to be rebuilt, and Irving reports it to the Texas Highway Department within five days.

Streets, grass and who to call

No vehicle may stay on a public street, alley or public way longer than 48 continuous hours. Police may impound a car parked against the code. The city FAQ also bans parking on the grass, except while the car is actually being washed.

Street parking problems go to Irving Police Dispatch at (972) 721-2518. Code Enforcement is on the 3rd floor of City Hall, 825 W. Irving Blvd., at (972) 721-4829, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The police non-emergency line is (972) 273-1010.

Paperwork in Dallas County

Irving sellers deal with Dallas County's tax assessor-collector, at Suite 1200, 500 Elm Street in Dallas. That is roughly 11 miles southeast of central Irving, measured as the crow flies.

Two papers change hands. First comes the title: your signature, the date, the mileage. The other is your signed Form 130-U, the agreed price on its line. Retitling is then the buyer's errand, due 30 days after the sale. Lost the title? a recycler of used auto parts may still buy a title-less car if the car dates back 13 years or further, bought only to dismantle or scrap, and off the registration rolls for seven years or longer. Our junk car with no title guide covers the other routes. House Bill 3297 ended the yearly safety check for noncommercial cars on January 1, 2025, yet emissions testing goes on in Dallas County. More Texas rules are on the Texas page.

Getting an offer

Reach us at (877) 421-6008 or online. Describe it in a sentence or two: model, odometer, does it start, whose title. Pickup works from an apartment lot near Las Colinas, a house off Irving Blvd., or a shop that could not fix it. If it has been sitting for years, that works too. Coppell and Euless are next door.