Selling a dead or junk car in Roy

How Roy cars end up on a hook

Roy's code wasn't available online, so this is Utah law. Roy may have local rules on dead or unregistered cars as well.

The statute treats a car as abandoned once it is "left unattended on a highway for a period in excess of 48 hours," or after a week on property where the person in charge never agreed to it. That's an infraction. An officer with reasonable grounds may then have the car removed under the state impound rules.

The 30-day clock

Two facts decide whether the certificate-of-sale rule touches your car:

• Model-year age. Eight years or older, counted from the impound date, with the model year read off the VIN.
• The original notice. The 30 days start there. If the owner can't be found at all, the certificate can still issue.

Once a tow operator has that certificate, the car is out of your hands. To keep it, act inside the window. When tow and storage fees top what the car means to you, read towed or impounded for other options.

Title office in Ogden

Utah's Tax Commission issues every title through its Motor Vehicle Division. From Roy, the closest Weber County office is about 5 miles northeast on a map, in Ogden at 2447 Lincoln Avenue (801-297-7780). See the Utah DMV site for hours.

Plates and reporting the sale

When you sell, keep the plate unless it goes to the buyer. That isn't tidiness: tickets and traffic violations tied to a plate left behind can come back to the seller, Utah warns. Then let the DMV know, any of three ways:

1. MVP, the online Motor Vehicle Portal.
2. A letter listing year, make, plate or VIN, with your signature, or form TC-502, mailed to the Motor Vehicle Division Contact Center.
3. A call to 1-800-DMV-UTAH.

Signing over a Roy car's title

• Utah requires no notary. With AND between names, all owners sign; with OR, one.
• Deliver the title within 48 hours, plus current registration.
• Weber County is a testing county, so a current emission certificate goes along where applicable.
• Complete odometer form TC-891 unless the car is 20 model years or older.
• A bill of sale, on TC-843 if you like, proves the title legally changed hands.

Lost title? TC-123 orders a duplicate for $6.00, or uses part two to hand the car to the buyer without one. After you sell wraps up the rest.

Roy's neighbors

Straight-line miles: Clinton 2.4, West Haven 2.6, Clearfield 5.4, Ogden 5.7, Syracuse 6.1, Layton 7.9. The Utah page has statewide rules.

Getting an offer

Tell us at (877) 421-6008 or online: year, make, model, odometer, whether it turns over, and whose name the title's in. Pickup is from the Roy curb, the driveway, or wherever it quit.