Oregon Statutes - Chapter 803 - Vehicle Title and Registration

803.010 Proof of ownership.
A certificate of title is prima facie evidence of the ownership of a vehicle or of an interest therein. In all actions, suits or criminal...
803.012 Rules for title forms and fees.
(1) The Department of Transportation may adopt rules authorizing different forms of title and specifying the uses of the different forms. The rules may include,...
803.015 Certificate contents.
The Department of Transportation shall design a certificate of title for vehicles for situations in which the department determines that certificates will be issued. A...
803.016 Titles in form other than certificate.
If title to a vehicle is not to be issued in the form of a certificate, the record of title kept by the Department of...
803.020 [1985 c.251 §14a; repealed by 1991 c.873 §53]
803.025 Violating title requirements; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of violating vehicle title requirements if the person owns or operates any vehicle in this state for which this...
803.030 Exemptions from title requirement.
This section establishes exemptions from the requirements under ORS 803.025 to obtain title issued by this state. The exemptions are subject to ORS 803.040. The...
803.035 Optional titling; rules.
(1) The Department of Transportation, by rule, may provide for optional titling of vehicles that are not subject to the vehicle titling requirements under ORS...
803.040 Effect of title.
(1) If this state has issued title for a vehicle, the vehicle shall remain titled by this state and subject to all of the provisions...
803.045 Issuance of title; rules.
(1) The Department of Transportation shall issue title for a vehicle if the applicant and the vehicle meet the following qualifications: (a) The applicant must...
803.050 Application; contents.
(1) An application for title required under ORS 803.045 shall be in a form specified by the Department of Transportation and shall contain all the...
803.055 Delivery of evidence of title; rules.
(1) When a certificate of title is issued by this state, the Department of Transportation shall deliver the certificate as follows unless otherwise provided by...
803.060 Renewal.
A title does not require a renewal and is valid until one of the following occurs: (1) The vehicle is destroyed, dismantled or substantially altered....
803.065 Duplicate or replacement certificate; fee; application; rules.
(1) The Department of Transportation may issue a duplicate or replacement certificate of title when all of the following occur: (a) The department is satisfied...
803.070 False statement in application or assignment; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of false statement on title or transfer of vehicle if the person knowingly makes any false statement of a...
803.075 False swearing prohibited; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of false swearing relating to titling of vehicles if the person knowingly makes any false affidavit or knowingly swears...
803.080 Unlawfully publishing certificate of title forms prohibited; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of unlawfully publishing certificate of title forms if the person produces in any way, or causes to be produced,...
803.085 Selling untitled vehicle prohibited; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of selling an untitled vehicle if the person sells a vehicle without complying with the requirements under ORS 803.025...
803.090 Fees for transfer and certificate issuance.
The following fees are the fees for the transaction described: (1) The transfer fee under ORS 803.092: (a) For a salvage title, $17. (b) For...
803.092 Application for title upon transfer of interest; when and by whom required; exceptions.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, upon the transfer of any interest in a vehicle covered by an Oregon title the transferee shall...
803.094 Release or assignment of title interest; rules; when and by whom required; exceptions.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, upon the transfer of any interest shown on an Oregon title any person whose interest is released,...
803.095 [1983 c.338 §189; 1985 c.16 §65; 1985 c.251 §17; 1985 c.300 §4; 1985 c.400 §2; 1985 c.485 §5; 1987 c.750 §4; 1989 c.43 §18; repealed by 1989 c.148 §20]
803.097 Perfection of security interest in vehicle; rules.
(1) Except as provided in subsection (5) of this section, the exclusive means for perfecting a security interest in a vehicle is by application for...
803.098 Certain transactions that do not create security interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of motor vehicles or trailers, a transaction does not create a sale or security interest merely...
803.100 Application of Uniform Commercial Code.
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the rights and remedies of all persons in vehicles subject to security interests established under...
803.102 Odometer disclosure statement upon transfer of interest; when required; rules.
(1) As used in this section: (a) �Transferee� means any person to whom ownership of a motor vehicle is transferred by purchase, gift or any...
803.103 Vehicle identification number check.
(1) With every vehicle title transfer, the Department of Transportation shall check the vehicle identification number or numbers on the vehicle title or other primary...
803.105 Failure to deliver documents on transfer; late fee; penalty.
(1) Except as provided in ORS 803.092, a person commits the offense of failure to deliver vehicle documents on transfer of a vehicle for which...
803.106 Failure to deliver information on transfer of Oregon-titled vehicle for which there is no title certificate; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of failure to deliver information on transfer of a vehicle for which the Department of Transportation has issued title...
803.108 Effect of tax lien on transfer of vehicle.
If the ownership of a motor vehicle subject to the lien provided for by ORS 319.700 is transferred, whether by operation of law or otherwise,...
803.110 [1985 c.485 §3; repealed by 1989 c.148 §20]
803.112 Notice of transfer of interest in vehicle; rules; exemptions.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the transferor of an interest in a vehicle covered by an Oregon title shall notify the Department...
803.113 Department action upon receipt of notice under ORS 803.112; rules.
(1) Except as otherwise provided by rule of the Department of Transportation under subsection (3) of this section, upon receipt of a notification of transfer...
803.114 Knowingly submitting false notice of transfer; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of knowingly submitting false notice of transfer if the person submits a notice of transfer of an interest in...
803.115 [1983 c.338 §192; 1989 c.992 §30; 1993 c.233 §36; renumbered 803.108 in 1997]
803.116 Knowingly submitting false information about transfer of interest in vehicle; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of knowingly submitting false information about transfer of a vehicle if the person submits a notice of transfer of...
803.117 Effect of notice of transfer on civil and criminal liability.
A transferor who has made a bona fide transfer of a vehicle and has delivered possession of it to a transferee shall not, by reason...
803.120 Odometer disclosure; contents of form.
(1) When an odometer disclosure is required by statute or by the Department of Transportation, the disclosure shall be in a form required by the...
803.122 Information required; rules.
(1) When an odometer disclosure is required at time of transfer of a vehicle, the transferee and the transferor shall both sign the odometer disclosure...
803.124 Rules for issuance of forms; agreements for provision of forms; fee.
(1) The Department of Transportation may adopt rules providing for issuance of any forms it considers necessary or convenient for assigning or conveying interests in...
803.126 Odometer disclosure without title application; fee.
(1) The Department of Transportation by rule may allow the filing of documents related to odometer disclosure without an accompanying application for issuance or transfer...
803.130 Purpose of record.
The purpose of a transitional ownership record is to enable security interests to be perfected in a timely manner when the primary ownership record is...
803.132 Circumstances under which transitional ownership record acceptable as ownership record.
A transitional ownership record is acceptable as an ownership record only if the primary ownership record is not in the possession of the selling dealer,...
803.134 Fee.
A person submitting a transitional ownership record to the Department of Transportation shall pay a fee of $13 to the department. The fee shall be...
803.136 Mandatory rejection, return or invalidation of record by department.
The Department of Transportation shall reject, return or subsequently invalidate a transitional ownership record if: (1) More than 30 days have elapsed between the date...
803.138 Discretionary rejection, return or invalidation of record by department.
The Department of Transportation may reject, return or subsequently invalidate a transitional ownership record if: (1) It is determined that title is to be issued...
803.140 Application; certificate; rules.
(1) When a person is required by the provisions of ORS 819.016 to apply for a salvage title for a vehicle, the application shall be...
803.200 Residency; criteria; exception; camper on vehicle.
This section establishes when the exemptions under ORS 803.030 and 803.305 from titling and registration of vehicles owned by nonresidents are applicable. The applicability of...
803.205 Proof of ownership or security interest on transfer or application for title or registration; affidavit.
(1) The Department of Transportation may require proof under this section if the department determines the proof is necessary to resolve questions concerning vehicle ownership...
803.207 Expedited titling and registration; fee.
(1) The Department of Transportation by rule may establish procedures for providing expedited services related to the titling and registration of vehicles when such services...
803.210 Conditions precedent to issuance of title for certain vehicles.
(1) The Department of Transportation shall not issue title for a vehicle described in subsection (2) of this section unless: (a) An inspection of the...
803.212 Inspection of vehicle identification numbers; product identification numbers.
(1) The Department of Transportation, or persons or agencies authorized to do so by the department, shall conduct a physical inspection of the vehicle identification...
803.215 Fee for inspection.
A fee of $7 shall be charged for an inspection of a vehicle required by ORS 803.210. [1983 c.338 §201; 1985 c.736 §1; 1987 c.146...
803.217 Transfer of title and registration for vehicles abandoned by tenant; rules.
The Department of Transportation shall adopt rules to provide for the transference of a certificate of title and registration for titled vehicles and recreational vehicles...
803.220 Notification to department of name or address change; rules; requirements; procedure; exception; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of unlawful failure to notify the Department of Transportation of a name or address change if the person: (a)...
803.225 Failure to designate replica, reconstructed, assembled or specially constructed vehicle in title or registration application; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of failure to designate a replica or a reconstructed, assembled or specially constructed vehicle if the person makes application...
803.230 Forging, altering or unlawfully producing or using title or registration; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of forging, altering or unlawfully producing or using vehicle titles or registration if the person does any of the...
803.300 Failure to register; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of failure to register a vehicle if the person owns a vehicle in this state and the person does...
803.305 Exemptions from general registration requirements.
This section establishes exemptions from the requirements under ORS 803.300. The exemptions under this section are in addition to any exemptions under ORS 801.026. Vehicles...
803.310 Optional registration; rules.
(1) The Department of Transportation, by rule, may provide for optional registration of vehicles that are exempt from vehicle registration requirements by ORS 803.305. The...
803.315 Failure to pay registration fee; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of failure to pay the appropriate registration fee if the person operates any vehicle or transports any camper that...
803.320 Permitting unlawful operation of unregistered vehicle; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of permitting unlawful operation of an unregistered vehicle if the person authorizes or knowingly permits a motor vehicle that...
803.325 Purchase and use of out-of-state registered vehicle; requirements; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of purchase and use of an out-of-state registered vehicle by a resident if the person is a resident of...
803.350 Qualifications for registration; fee; rules.
This section establishes the requirements for qualification for registration. The Department of Transportation shall not issue registration to a vehicle if the requirements under this...
803.355 �Domicile� described.
For purposes of ORS 803.350 to 803.370 and 807.045, a person is domiciled in this state if the person�s place of abode is in the...
803.360 Domicile requirements for registration; exceptions.
(1) No person may register or renew the registration of a vehicle in this state unless the person is domiciled in this state, as described...
803.370 Contents of application; rules.
This section establishes requirements for an application for vehicle registration in this state. If an applicant fails to comply with requirements under this section, the...
803.375 False application prohibited; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of false application for vehicle registration if the person does any of the following: (a) Knowingly makes any false...
803.380 Failure to surrender out-of-state registration; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of failure to surrender out-of-state registration, if the person registers a vehicle in this state that has been registered...
803.385 False swearing relating to registration; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of false swearing relating to registration of vehicles if the person knowingly makes any false affidavit or knowingly swears...
803.400 Duration of registration periods.
This section establishes and distinguishes registration periods. Each registration period determines the period of validity for vehicle registration. Registration under the following registration periods is...
803.405 Effect of initial registration month.
(1) The month in which any vehicle is initially registered under annual registration is the month established as the beginning and ending of registration periods...
803.410 Department authorized to adjust periods and fees; rules.
The Department of Transportation is empowered to administer ORS 803.400 and 803.405, relating to the registration periods of vehicles and to adopt and enforce rules,...
803.415 Registration periods for vehicles.
This section establishes registration periods for vehicles. The registration periods are periods described under ORS 803.400. Except as provided in the following, the registration period...
803.417 Registration period for Oregon National Guard member or military reservist.
(1) Notwithstanding ORS 803.400 and 803.415, the registration of a vehicle registered in the name of a person who is a member of the Oregon...
803.420 Registration fees.
This section establishes registration fees for vehicles. If there is uncertainty as to the classification of a vehicle for purposes of the payment of registration...
803.425 Vehicle length for fee determination.
The following are the measurement points of the described vehicles for the purposes of determining registration fees under ORS 803.420: (1) Special use trailers and...
803.430 Certain vehicles required to establish registration weight for fee determination.
(1) Registration weight is established for the following purposes: (a) The registration weight is the weight used in the declaration of weight under ORS 803.435...
803.435 Declaration of weight for fee determination; contents.
A declaration of weight required for purposes of complying with ORS 803.440 and for purposes of determining vehicle registration fees under ORS 803.420 shall contain...
803.440 Failure to submit declaration of weight; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of failure to submit a declaration of weight if the person does not submit a declaration of weight for...
803.445 Authority of counties and districts to impose registration fees; rules; maximum amount.
(1) The governing body of a county may impose registration fees for vehicles as provided in ORS 801.041. (2) The governing body of a district...
803.450 Notice of pending expiration; exceptions; effect of failure to receive; records.
(1) The Department of Transportation shall notify the registered owner of a vehicle registered by this state of the approaching expiration of the vehicle�s registration....
803.455 Failure to renew; fee; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of failure to renew vehicle registration if the registration period for a vehicle registered in the person�s name expires...
803.460 Certification or other proof of compliance with financial responsibility requirements; rules.
The Department of Transportation shall not renew the registration of a motor vehicle unless one of the following occurs: (1) The owner of the vehicle...
803.465 Proof of compliance with pollution control equipment requirements.
The Department of Transportation shall not issue renewal of registration unless the department receives proof of compliance with pollution control equipment requirements under ORS 815.310....
803.470 [1983 c.338 §237; 1985 c.174 §3; repealed by 1991 c.459 §438L]
803.473 Effect of unpaid registration fees on issuance of duplicate or replacement certificate of title.
On and after September 29, 1991, the Department of Transportation shall not refuse to renew registration, transfer the certificate of title or issue a duplicate...
803.475 [1985 c.251 §22; 1991 c.873 §16; repealed by 1993 c.751 §106]
803.500 Registration card; contents.
The Department of Transportation shall furnish for each vehicle and camper registered by the department, a registration card that shows all of the following information:...
803.505 Failure to carry registration card; penalty.
(1) The owner of a vehicle that is registered in this state commits the offense of failure to carry a registration card if the owner...
803.510 Duplicate or replacement; fee.
The Department of Transportation may issue a duplicate or replacement registration card when: (1) The department receives an application indicating the loss, mutilation or destruction...
803.520 Issuance; fees.
The Department of Transportation shall issue and deliver to the owner registration plates according to the following: (1) Registration plates shall be issued upon filing...
803.525 Number of plates issued.
The Department of Transportation shall issue two registration plates for every vehicle that is registered by the department except as otherwise provided in this section....
803.530 Period of validity; transfer; replacement.
Registration plates assigned to a vehicle by the Department of Transportation shall remain with the vehicle to which the plates are assigned and are valid...
803.533 Period of validity for Oregon National Guard member or military reservist.
(1) Notwithstanding ORS 803.530, a registration plate assigned to a vehicle registered to a member of the Oregon National Guard or a military reservist ordered...
803.535 Size, form, material, color, design, contents.
Subject to ORS 805.105 and 805.205 and the following, the Department of Transportation shall select registration plates it issues: (1) Registration plates shall be in...
803.537 [1987 c.572 §5; 1989 c.742 §5; repealed by 1993 c.741 §147]
803.538 Color of sky in graphic plates.
Registration plates chosen by the commission pursuant to section 1, chapter 572, Oregon Laws 1987, shall have the colors chosen by the commission except that...
803.540 Failure to display plates; exceptions; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of failure to display registration plates if the person operates, on the highways of this state, any vehicle or...
803.545 Failure to display out-of-state plates; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of failure to display plates on an out-of-state vehicle if the person operates a vehicle that is registered in...
803.550 Illegal alteration or display of plates; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of illegal alteration or illegal display of a registration plate if the person knowingly does any of the following:...
803.555 Replacement.
The owner of a registered vehicle to which registration stickers are assigned may replace a registration sticker that is lost, destroyed or mutilated in a...
803.560 Improper display; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of improper display of validating stickers if the person owns or drives a vehicle on which the display of...
803.565 Removal of stickers upon sale of vehicle by dealer or towing business.
(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, when a person who has a vehicle dealer certificate issued under ORS 822.020...
803.570 Plate manufacturing fee.
Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, the Department of Transportation shall collect the fee described by this section each time the department issues a...
803.575 Fees for cards, plates and stickers; issuance; replacement; transfer.
(1) The fee for issuance of a duplicate or replacement registration card under ORS 803.510 is $5. (2) The fee for issuance of a replacement...
803.577 Fee for identification device for proportionally registered vehicle.
Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, the Department of Transportation shall collect the fee described by this section each time the department issues an...
803.580 [1983 c.338 §220; repealed by 1987 c.750 §12]
803.585 Registration fees as substitute for taxes on vehicles; exemptions.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section or ORS 801.041 or 801.042, the registration fees under the vehicle code are in lieu of all...
803.590 Disposition of plates and refund of fees when certain vehicles are destroyed or withdrawn from service.
(1) The owner of a vehicle described in this subsection shall be permitted to transfer the registration plates from the vehicle to a like vehicle...
803.600 Trip permits; authority granted; types; records; rules; when not required.
A trip permit grants authority to temporarily operate a vehicle on the highways of this state under circumstances where the operation would not otherwise be...
803.601 Disposition of fees collected for certain permits.
Fees collected by the Department of Transportation for recreational vehicle trip permits described in ORS 803.600 shall be transferred to the State Parks and Recreation...
803.602 Statement of insurance coverage for certain trip permits.
An applicant for a light vehicle trip permit, a recreational vehicle trip permit for a motor vehicle or a trip permit issued under ORS 803.600...
803.605 Erroneous issuance of trip permit; refund of fee.
When the Department of Transportation determines that it has erroneously issued a trip permit to a person who did not require the permit, the department...
803.610 Reciprocity permits.
A reciprocity permit is a vehicle permit that may be issued to identify vehicles operating under a reciprocal agreement established under ORS 802.500. When required...
803.615 Temporary permit for registration applicant.
The Department of Transportation may issue a temporary permit in a form determined by the department to an applicant for registration to permit the applicant...
803.620 [1983 c.338 §277; 1989 c.109 §2; repealed by 1989 c.43 §37]
803.625 Temporary registration permits issued by dealers; rules.
(1) The holder of a current, valid vehicle dealer certificate issued under ORS 822.020 may issue temporary permits for the operation of vehicles or the...
803.630 Agent violation of temporary registration permit procedures; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of agent violation of temporary registration permit procedures if the person is authorized to issue temporary registration permits under...
803.635 Improper use of temporary registration permit; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of improper use of temporary registration permit if the person is issued a temporary registration permit under ORS 803.625...
803.640 Prohibition on showing name or address on permit.
(1) Vehicle permits issued under ORS 803.600 to 803.615 that are required to be displayed so as to be visible from the outside of a...
803.645 Fees for trip permits.
Fees for trip permits issued under ORS 803.600 are as follows: (1) For a heavy motor vehicle trip permit, $21. (2) For a heavy trailer...
803.650 Placement of permits in vehicles; rules.
(1) A permit issued under ORS 803.600, 803.615 or 803.625 shall be placed on the left side of the rear window of the vehicle unless:...
803.655 Improper display of permit; penalty.
(1) A person commits the offense of improper display of a permit if the person is issued a permit under ORS 803.600, 803.615 or 803.625,...
803.660 Color and size of permits.
The color and size of the print on permits issued under ORS 803.600, 803.615 and 803.625 shall be such that the permits can easily be...
803.665 Towing commercial fishing boat without permit.
Notwithstanding ORS 803.600, a person may tow the person�s own commercial fishing boat without a trip permit and regardless of the weight permitted under the...

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