California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 4 - Evidences of Registration

• Section 4450.
  The department upon registering a vehicle shall issue a certificate of ownership to the legal owner and a registration card to the owner, or both...
• Section 4450.5.
  (a) On or before January 1, 2012, the director shall develop an Electronic Lien and Title (ELT) Program, in consultation with lienholders, licensed dealers, and other...
• Section 4451.
  The certificate of ownership shall contain all of the following:(a) Not less than the information required upon the face of the registration card.(b) Provision for notice to...
• Section 4452.
  The department may issue a certificate of ownership to the legal owner of a vehicle without requiring registration, and may issue a facsimile copy of...
• Section 4453.
  (a) The registration card shall contain upon its face, the date issued, the name and residence or business address or mailing address of the owner and...
• Section 4453.2.
  In addition to the information required under Section 4453, the registration card of every farm labor vehicle shall contain the words, “Farm Labor Vehicle,” in...
• Section 4453.5.
  (a) In the case of leased vehicles, the lessor and the lessee shall be shown on the registration card as the owner and the lessee of...
• Section 4453.6.
  On request of any member of the California Highway Patrol, any regularly employed and salaried police officer or deputy sheriff, or any reserve police officer...
• Section 4454.
  (a) Every owner, upon receipt of a registration card, shall maintain the same or a facsimile copy thereof with the vehicle for which issued.(b) This section does...
• Section 4455.
  Any permit issued under Section 4004 shall be carried in the vehicle for which issued at all times while it is being operated in this...
• Section 4456.
  (a) When selling a vehicle, dealers and lessor-retailers shall use numbered report-of-sale forms issued by the department. The forms shall be used in accordance with the...
• Section 4456.a.
  (a) When selling a vehicle, dealers and lessor-retailers shall report the sale using the reporting system described in Section 4456.2. After providing information to the reporting...
• Section 4456.1.
  (a) A dealer or lessor-retailer who violates paragraph (1), (2), or (7) of subdivision (a) of Section 4456 shall pay to the department an administrative service...
• Section 4456.2.
  (a) The department shall develop a system for dealers and lessor-retailers to electronically report the sale of a vehicle before the vehicle is delivered to the...
• Section 4456.3.
  (a) The department shall charge a dealer or lessor-retailer a fee, as established by the director pursuant to subdivision (b), for each vehicle sold by a...
• Section 4456.4.
  (a) A motor vehicle sold or leased by a new motor vehicle dealer shall be registered by the dealer using electronic programs provided by a qualified...
• Section 4456.5.
  (a) A dealer may charge the purchaser or lessee of a vehicle the following charges:(1) A document processing charge for the preparation and processing of documents, disclosures,...
• Section 4456.5.a.
  (a) A dealer may charge the purchaser or lessee of a vehicle the following charges:(1) A document processing charge for the preparation and processing of documents, disclosures,...
• Section 4457.
  If any registration card or license plate is stolen, lost, mutilated, or illegible, the owner of the vehicle for which the same was issued, as...
• Section 4458.
  If both license plates or a permanent trailer identification plate are lost or stolen, the registered owner shall immediately notify a law enforcement agency, and...
• Section 4459.
  If any certificate of ownership is stolen, lost, mutilated or illegible, the legal owner or, if none, then the owner of the vehicle for which...
• Section 4460.
  (a) The Department of Motor Vehicles, the Traffic Adjudication Board, and the Department of the California Highway Patrol, any regularly employed and salaried police officer or...
• Section 4461.
  (a) A person shall not lend a certificate of ownership, registration card, license plate, special plate, validation tab, or permit issued to him or her if...
• Section 4461.3.
  In addition to any fine imposed for conviction of a violation of Section 4461 or 22507.8, a city or county may adopt an ordinance or...
• Section 4461.5.
  In addition to, or instead of, any fine imposed for conviction of a violation of subdivision (c) or (d) of Section 4461, the court may...
• Section 4462.
  (a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall present the registration or identification card or other evidence of registration of any or all vehicles under his...
• Section 4462.a.
  (a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall present the registration or identification card or other evidence of registration of any or all vehicles under his...
• Section 4462.5.
  Every person who commits a violation of subdivision (b) of Section 4462, with intent to avoid compliance with vehicle registration requirements of Article 1 (commencing...
• Section 4463.
  (a) A person who, with intent to prejudice, damage, or defraud, commits any of the following acts is guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof...
• Section 4463.a.
  (a) A person who, with intent to prejudice, damage, or defraud, commits any of the following acts is guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof...
• Section 4463.3.
  In addition to, or instead of, any fine imposed for conviction of a violation of subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 4463, the court may...
• Section 4463.5.
  (a) No person shall manufacture or sell a decorative or facsimile license plate of a size substantially similar to the license plate issued by the department.(b) Notwithstanding...
• Section 4464.
  A person shall not display upon a vehicle a license plate that is altered from its original markings.(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 702, Sec. 2....
• Section 4465.
  (a) A legal owner of record of a vehicle may request, and the department shall furnish, information regarding the current registration status of the vehicle, including...
• Section 4466.
  (a) The department shall not issue a duplicate or substitute certificate of title or license plate if, after a search of the records of the department,...
• Section 4467.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall issue new and different license plates immediately upon request to the registered owner of a vehicle...

Last modified: October 22, 2018