In Florida, it is up to the BUYER to take the title in to the tax collector and have it registered, but there is no time limit............
Same in other states. Which makes “red light ticket enforcement” and “EZ tag lines” tickets bad because the FORMER owner can still get ticketed for offenses by the new owner if he hasn’t submitted proper paperwork yet.
Quite right. I should have been more specific. I had heard that the car was last in the possession of an CT auto dealer/parts supplier. Would it be legal for an auto dealer to have an unrecorded sale? Clearly, transactions between two private individuals are more flexible.
I was thinking that perhaps a dealer, who had taken the vehicle in on a Cash for Clunkers deal, resold it, breaking the terms (and law) of the CFC program. You might not be to keen to record the sale of a vehicle that was supposed to be scrapped for metal.
Same in Michigan, where I just did it.