Code of Alabama - Title 32: Motor Vehicles and Traffic - Chapter 20 - Manufactured Home Certificate of Title Act

• Article 1
• Section 32-20-1 Short title
  This chapter may be cited as the Alabama Manufactured Home Certificate of Title Act.
• Section 32-20-2 Definitions
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates...
• Section 32-20-3 Powers and duties of department
  (a) The department shall prescribe and provide suitable forms of applications, certificates of title, notices of security interests, and all other notices and forms necessary...
• Section 32-20-4 Transaction fees
  (a) There shall be paid to the department for issuing and processing documents required by this chapter a fee of fifteen dollars ($15) for each...
• Section 32-20-5 Commission fee
  The judge of probate or other county official who is authorized and required by law to process applications for certificates of title by this chapter...
• Section 32-20-6 Inspections; search warrants
  (a) Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, policeman of an incorporated municipality, or duly authorized representative of the Department of Public Safety or Department of Revenue of...
• Section 32-20-7 Forms, rules, and regulations to be supplied
  The department shall provide each designated agent with a supply of forms, rules, and regulations provided for in this chapter. Such forms, rules, and regulations...
• Section 32-20-8 Enforcement
  The department is charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and may call upon any and all law enforcement agencies and officers...
• Section 32-20-9 Violations - Aiding, abetting, etc
  A person who, whether present or absent, aids, abets, induces, procures, or causes the commission of an act which if done directly by him or...
• Section 32-20-10 Violations - Alterations, forgeries, etc
  A person is guilty of a Class C felony who, with fraudulent intent does any of the following: (1) Alters, forges, or counterfeits a certificate...
• Section 32-20-11 Violations - Certificate and application
  A person is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor who does any of the following: (1) With fraudulent intent, permits another, not entitled thereto, to...
• Article 2
• Section 32-20-20 Application; manufactured home permanently affixed; detachment; records
  (a) Except as provided in Section 32-20-21 or subsection (b), every owner of a manufactured home which is in this state and for which no...
• Section 32-20-21 Issuance excluded
  No certificate of title shall be issued for any of the following: (1) A manufactured home owned by the United States or any agency thereof....
• Section 32-20-22 Designated agents of department
  (a) Each judge of probate, commissioner of licenses, director of revenue, or other county official in this state authorized and required by law to issue...
• Section 32-20-23 Application requirements
  (a) The application for the certificate of title of a manufactured home in this state shall be made by the owner to a designated agent,...
• Section 32-20-24 Acceptance of application where ownership of manufactured home in question
  If the department is not satisfied as to the ownership of the manufactured home or that there are no undisclosed security interests in it, the...
• Section 32-20-25 Issuance of certificate
  (a) The department shall examine each application received and, when satisfied that the applicant is entitled to the issuance of a certificate of title, shall...
• Section 32-20-26 Certificate contents
  (a) Each certificate of title issued by the department shall contain all of the following: (1) The date issued. (2) The name and current address...
• Section 32-20-27 Mailing of certificate; electronic issuance
  The certificate of title shall be mailed to the first lienholder named in it or, if none, to the owner. The department may promulgate rules...
• Section 32-20-28 Grounds for refusal
  The department shall refuse issuance of certificate of title if any required fee is not paid or if the department has reasonable grounds to believe...
• Section 32-20-29 Replacement certificate
  (a) If a certificate of title issued under this chapter or previously issued under Chapter 8 of this title is lost, stolen, mutilated, or destroyed...
• Section 32-20-30 Transfer of interest by owner
  (a) If an owner transfers his or her interest in a manufactured home, other than by the creation of a security interest, he or she...
• Section 32-20-31 Transfer of interest by dealer
  (a) If a dealer buys a manufactured home and holds it for resale and procures the certificate of title from the owner or the lienholder...
• Section 32-20-32 Involuntary transfer of interest
  (a) If the interest of an owner in a manufactured home passes to another other than by voluntary transfer, the transferee, except as hereinafter provided...
• Section 32-20-33 Issuance of new certificate upon assignment
  (a) The department, upon receipt of a properly assigned certificate of title, with an application for a new certificate title, the required fee, and any...
• Section 32-20-34 Suspension or revocation of certificate
  (a) The department shall suspend or revoke a certificate of title, subject to the appeal provisions of Chapter 2A of Title 40, when authorized by...
• Article 3
• Section 32-20-40 Applicability of chapter
  This chapter does not apply to or affect any of the following: (1) A lien given by statute or rule of law to a supplier...
• Section 32-20-41 Perfection of security interest
  (a) Unless excepted by this section, a security interest in a manufactured home for which a certificate of title is required by the terms of...
• Section 32-20-42 Requirements upon creation of security interest
  If an owner creates a security interest in a manufactured home: (1) The owner shall immediately execute the application in the space provided therefor on...
• Section 32-20-43 Assignment
  (a) A lienholder may assign, absolutely or otherwise, his or her security interest in the manufactured home to a person other than the owner without...
• Section 32-20-44 Satisfaction
  (a) Upon the satisfaction of a security interest in a manufactured home for which the certificate of title is in the possession of the lienholder,...
• Section 32-20-45 Disclosure of information
  A lienholder named in a certificate of title upon written request of the owner or of another lienholder named on the certificate, shall disclose any...
• Section 32-20-46 Construction with other laws
  (a) The method provided in this article of perfecting and giving notice of security interest in manufactured homes required to be titled under the terms...
• Section 32-20-47 Electronic transmissions
  Notwithstanding any requirement in this chapter that a lien on a manufactured home shall be noted on the face of the certificate of title, if...
• Section 32-20-48 Filing of notice; maintenance of records
  (a) The department shall file each notice of security interest received by the department with the required fee and maintain a record of all notices...

Last modified: May 3, 2021