California Vehicle Code CHAPTER 3 - Transfer of Title or Interest in Undocumented Vessel

• Section 9900.
  No transfer of the title or any interest in or to an undocumented vessel numbered under this code shall pass, and any attempted transfer shall...
• Section 9901.
  Whenever any person has received as transferee a properly endorsed certificate of ownership, he or she shall, within 10 days thereafter, forward the certificates with...
• Section 9902.
  The department, upon receipt of a properly endorsed certificate of ownership and a new application form and the required fee, shall issue a new certificate...
• Section 9903.
  (a) Prior to the issuance of any certificate of ownership the department shall obtain a statement in writing, signed by the transferee or transferor, showing:(1) The date...
• Section 9905.
  An owner who has made a bona fide sale or transfer of an undocumented vessel and has delivered possession of the vessel to a purchaser...
• Section 9906.
  A legal owner may assign his title or interest in or to an undocumented vessel numbered under this code to a person other than the...
• Section 9907.
  Upon transfer of the title or any interest of the legal owner or legal owners in an undocumented vessel numbered under this code, the transferor...
• Section 9908.
  Upon transfer of the title or interest or any part thereof of the registered owner only in an undocumented vessel numbered under this code, the...
• Section 9909.
  When the required certificate of ownership is lost, stolen, damaged, or mutilated, application for transfer may be made upon a form provided by the department...
• Section 9910.
  It is unlawful for any person to fail or neglect to deliver the certificate of number and, when having possession, to properly endorse, date, and...
• Section 9911.
  Whenever the owner of an undocumented vessel numbered under this code sells or transfers his or her title or interest in, or any part thereof,...
• Section 9912.
  Every dealer upon transferring by sale, lease or otherwise any undocumented vessel, whether new or used, required to be numbered under this code, shall, not...
• Section 9913.
  When a security interest upon a numbered vessel is satisfied, canceled, or released by the parties thereto who are the registered owner and legal owner...
• Section 9914.
  The transferee of a security interest in the interest of a legal owner of a numbered vessel need not make application for a transfer of...
• Section 9915.
  (a) Whenever the title or interest of any owner or legal owner in or to a vessel numbered under this code passes to another otherwise than...
• Section 9916.
  (a) If 40 days have elapsed since the death of an owner or legal owner of any vessel numbered under this division without the decedent leaving...
• Section 9916.5.
  (a) On death of the owner of a vessel numbered under this division and owned in beneficiary form, the vessel belongs to the surviving beneficiary, if...
• Section 9916.7.
  (a) If the department makes a transfer pursuant to Section 9916.5, the department is discharged from all liability, whether or not the transfer is consistent with...
• Section 9917.
  Whenever application is made to the department for a transfer of ownership of a vessel to a new owner or legal owner and the applicant...
• Section 9918.
  If the application for a transfer is made in the manner provided in this code, the department shall not be required to withhold the transfer...
• Section 9919.
  No security interest in any vessel numbered under this code, irrespective of whether such number was effected prior or subsequent to the creation of such...
• Section 9920.
  When the secured party, his successor or assignee, has deposited with the department a properly endorsed certificate of ownership showing the secured party as legal...
• Section 9921.
  Upon the deposit with the department of the certificate of ownership showing the secured party as legal owner as provided in Section 9919 hereof, the...
• Section 9922.
  The method provided in this chapter for perfecting a security interest in a vessel numbered under this code is exclusive.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1428.)
• Section 9923.
  In the absence of the regularly required supporting evidence of ownership upon application for registration or transfer of a vessel, the department may accept an...
• Section 9924.
  In the event the vessel is no longer registered in this state and the currently valid certificate of ownership is surrendered to the department or...
• Section 9928.
  The department shall withhold the certificate of number or the transfer of registration of any vessel sold at retail to any applicant by any person...

Last modified: October 22, 2018