General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 90D Motor Vehicle Certificates of Title
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 90D, Section 1
In this chapter, except when the context otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Dealer”, any person who is engaged principally in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exemptions; application of sections - Chapter 90D, Section 2
(a) No certificate of title need be obtained for: (1) A vehicle owned by the United States unless it is registered in accordance with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter - Chapter 90D, Section 3
This chapter shall not apply to or affect: (a) A lien given by statute or rule of law to a supplier of services or materials...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registration under chapter 90; application for certificate of title required - Chapter 90D, Section 4
(a) Except for vehicles referred to in section two, whoever acquires a motor vehicle or trailer after the effective date of this chapter, shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Owner of implement of husbandry, etc.; application of chapter, exception - Chapter 90D, Section 5
The owner of an implement of husbandry or special mobile equipment may apply for and obtain a certificate of title. All of the provisions of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of origin - Chapter 90D, Section 6
When a new vehicle is delivered in the commonwealth by a manufacturer to an agent or a franchised dealer, the manufacturer shall execute and deliver...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application for first certificate of title; contents - Chapter 90D, Section 7
(a) The application for the first certificate of title of a vehicle in the commonwealth shall be made by the owner to the registrar on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Check of application against records - Chapter 90D, Section 8
The registrar, upon receiving an application for a first certificate of title, shall check the identifying number of the vehicle shown in the application against...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance and record of certificates of title - Chapter 90D, Section 9
(a) The registrar shall file each application received and, when satisfied as to its genuineness and regularity and that the applicant is entitled to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contents of certificate; distinctive certificates; forms; evidence; nature - Chapter 90D, Section 10
(a) Each certificate of title issued by the registrar shall contain: (1) The date issued; (2) The name and address of the owner; (3) The...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mailing of certificate - Chapter 90D, Section 11
The certificate of title shall be mailed to the first lienholder named in it or, if none, to the owner.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Electronic recording of security interests - Chapter 90D, Section 11A
The registrar is authorized to develop, establish and maintain an electronic data and communication system with banks, credit or other financial institutions for the purpose...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Withholding of certificate; bond - Chapter 90D, Section 12
If the registrar is not satisfied as to the ownership of the vehicle or that there are no undisclosed security interests in it, the registrar...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal of issuance; grounds - Chapter 90D, Section 13
The registrar shall refuse issuance of a certificate of title if any required fee is not paid or if he has reasonable grounds to believe...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duplicate certificate of title - Chapter 90D, Section 14
(a) If a certificate of title is lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed or becomes illegible, the first lienholder or, if none, the owner or legal...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfers; execution of assignments; application for new certificate; lienholder’s rights; compliance - Chapter 90D, Section 15
(a) Except as provided for in subsection (e) of section 20, if an owner of a vehicle for which a certificate of title has been...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death of registered owner of motor vehicle; presumption of joint ownership in surviving spouse - Chapter 90D, Section 15A
Upon the death of a married resident owner of a motor vehicle registered as a pleasure vehicle in the commonwealth, and unless otherwise provided in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dealers; assignment and warranty of title; record of transactions - Chapter 90D, Section 16
(a) If a dealer buys a vehicle and holds it for resale and procures the certificate of title from the owner or the lienholder after...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Involuntary transfers of interests - Chapter 90D, Section 17
(a) If the interest of any owner in a vehicle passes to another other than by voluntary transfer, the transferee shall, except as provided in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application fee - Chapter 90D, Section 18
(a) An application for a certificate of title shall be accompanied by the required fee when mailed or delivered to the registrar. (b) An application...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance to transferee; surrendered certificates - Chapter 90D, Section 19
(a) The registrar, upon receipt of a properly assigned certificate of title, except as provided for in subsection (e) of section 20, with an application...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Total loss salvage motor vehicles; surrender of certificate of title; salvage title - Chapter 90D, Section 20
(a) Except as provided for in subsection (e), whenever an insurer acquires ownership of a motor vehicle which it has determined to be a total...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application for salvage title; procedure - Chapter 90D, Section 20A
(a) The application for the salvage title shall be made by the owner, except as provided for in subsection (e) of section 20, to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exceptions to salvage title requirement - Chapter 90D, Section 20B
No salvage title need be obtained for: (1) a vehicle owned by the United States unless it is registered in accordance with the provisions of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer of interest in vehicle with issued salvage title - Chapter 90D, Section 20C
(a) If an owner of a vehicle for which a salvage title has been issued under this chapter transfers his interest therein, he shall execute...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reconstruction or restoration of total loss salvage motor vehicle - Chapter 90D, Section 20D
(a) Any owner who reconstructs or restores a total loss salvage motor vehicle to its operating condition which existed prior to the event which caused...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cancellation of certificate upon junking or scrapping of vehicle - Chapter 90D, Section 20E
(a) Any person who takes possession of a motor vehicle for the purpose of junking or scrapping shall within ten days after receipt of delivery,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reassembly of motor vehicles from other motor vehicles; application for title and inspection - Chapter 90D, Section 20F
(a) Any person, including a person licensed under section fifty-nine of chapter one hundred and forty, who reassembles a motor vehicle by means of welding...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Perfecting of security interest in vehicle - Chapter 90D, Section 21
A security interest in a vehicle for which a certificate of title is issued under this chapter is perfected by the delivery to the registrar...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicles or trailers; limitation on creation of sale or security interest - Chapter 90D, Section 21A
In the case of motor vehicles or trailers, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a transaction does not create a sale or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Security interest in vehicle; requirements of owner, lienholder and subordinate lienholder - Chapter 90D, Section 22
If an owner creates a security interest in a vehicle:— (a) The owner shall immediately execute the application, in the space provided therefor on the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment, etc. of security interest in vehicle; liability of lienholder; assignee’s rights - Chapter 90D, Section 23
(a) A lienholder may assign, absolutely or otherwise, his security interest in the vehicle to a person other than the owner without affecting the interest...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Satisfaction of security interest in vehicle - Chapter 90D, Section 24
Upon the satisfaction of a security interest in a vehicle for which the certificate of title is in the possession of the lienholder, the lienholder...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to comply with Sec. 24; civil administrative penalty assessed on lienholder by registrar; judicial review - Chapter 90D, Section 24A
(a) If a lienholder fails to comply with section 24, an aggrieved party may file a complaint against the lienholder with the registrar. For the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disclosure of information by lienholder - Chapter 90D, Section 25
A lienholder named in a certificate of title shall, upon written request of the owner or of another lienholder named on the certificate, disclose any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusiveness of method of perfecting security interests - Chapter 90D, Section 26
The method provided in this chapter of perfecting and giving notice of security interests in vehicles for which certificates of title are issued, or are...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension or revocation of certificate of title - Chapter 90D, Section 27
The registrar shall suspend or revoke a certificate of title, upon notice and reasonable opportunity to be heard in accordance with section thirty, when authorized...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registrar’s fees - Chapter 90D, Section 28
The registrar shall collect fees, as determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven, for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Forms prescribed and provided by registrar; rules and regulations; assignment of persons subject to civil service to administer this chapter - Chapter 90D, Section 29
The registrar shall prescribe and provide suitable forms of applications, certificates of title, notices of security interests and all other notices and forms necessary to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Review of ruling or decision of registrar - Chapter 90D, Section 30
Any person aggrieved by a ruling or decision of the registrar under this chapter shall be entitled to review thereof in accordance with the provisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of registrar or commonwealth - Chapter 90D, Section 31
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to impose any liability whatsoever upon the registrar of motor vehicles or upon the commonwealth for any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Punishment - Chapter 90D, Section 32
(a) Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits a certificate of title or salvage title; or alters or forges an assignment of a certificate of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Theft, conversion or recovery of a vehicle, report; dealers’ charge for certificates procured - Chapter 90D, Section 33
A police officer, as defined in section one of chapter ninety C, who learns of the theft of a vehicle not since recovered, or of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Previously registered vehicle, defined - Chapter 90D, Section 34
A “previously registered vehicle” means a vehicle registered by the registrar when this chapter takes effect or a vehicle whose last registration before this chapter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter to previously registered vehicle - Chapter 90D, Section 35
This chapter shall not apply to a previously registered vehicle until: (a) there is a change in the ownership thereof, after this chapter takes effect;...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Previously registered vehicle; undisclosed security interest; distinctive certificate - Chapter 90D, Section 36
If the registrar questions the existence of undisclosed security interests, created before this chapter takes effect, in a previously registered vehicle, he may, in addition...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Perfection of security interest created prior to effective date of this chapter; law applicable - Chapter 90D, Section 37
The perfection of a security interest, created prior to the date this chapter takes effect, shall be governed by the provisions of chapter one hundred...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Validity of certificate issued prior to certain dates - Chapter 90D, Section 38
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to impair the validity of any certificate of registration issued by the registrar prior to September first,...
Last modified: September 11, 2015