Transporting a new purchase

[Don Bradner]

On 12/7/2007 at 12:17 AM bubblerboy64 wrote:

>If you happened to be involved in an accident or a traffic violation
>and you are pulled over what do they ask for? Your license, your
>insurance, and your registration. Anyone argue with that? Think a
>bill of sale is good enough?

Typically you will not have just a bill of sale. You will have the former
owner's title or registration, with a release signature. That combination will
establish ownership, and if the bill of sale (particularly a notarized one) is
less than 30 days old it should be acceptable in any conceivable situation.

In fact, generally just the conveyed title is enough. The bill of sale is
primarily to establish price, for tax purposes.

In looking around, there may be some states that don't offer title, and proof of
ownership is the prior registration plus a bill of sale. "May be" because I
couldn't find such a state, just other states saying that, if the prior state
was one that didn't use title you would need registration and BOS.