Tex. Transp. Code § 501.1003 · Subchapter E. NONREPAIRABLE AND SALVAGE MOTOR VEHICLES
SALVAGE DEALER RESPONSIBILITIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a salvage vehicle dealer acquires ownership of a nonrepairable motor vehicle or salvage motor vehicle for the purpose of dismantling, scrapping, or destroying the motor vehicle, the dealer shall, before the 31st day after the date the dealer acquires the motor vehicle, submit to the department a report stating that the motor vehicle will be dismantled, scrapped, or destroyed. The dealer shall:
(1) make the report in a manner prescribed by the department; and
(2) submit with the report a properly assigned manufacturer's certificate of origin, regular certificate of title, nonrepairable vehicle title, salvage vehicle title, or comparable out-of-state ownership document for the motor vehicle.
(b) After receiving the report and title or document, the department shall issue the salvage vehicle dealer a receipt for the manufacturer's certificate of origin, regular certificate of title, nonrepairable vehicle title, salvage vehicle title, or comparable out-of-state ownership document.
(c) The department shall adopt rules to notify the salvage dealer if the vehicle was not issued a printed title, but has a record of title in the department's titling system.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Redesignated and amended from Transportation Code, Section 501.096 by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1296 (H.B. 2357), Sec. 46, eff. January 1, 2012.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.501.htm
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