My friend is in custody and his car is impounded. He wants to sell me his car so that I could get his car out.

Question

On the DMV website, I just found the "Bill of Sale" form. He is going to sign that, and I'm wondering if I have to show that to the DMV FIRST or can I just take THAT form and show it to the Police Department with his signature and they'll let me take out the car that now belongs to me? I'm asking this because it's Sunday and DMV's aren't open, and Monday is a holiday!!! Thanks in advance!

I guess my main question is, does the signatures have to be notarized by the DMV first.

Answer 1

You will have to have the title to the car before the police impound lot will let you have it. So he signs the bill of sale, you take that to DMV on Tuesday, get the title changed over, then go get the car.

You will have to pay all the title charges, new plates, taxes at DMV, then impound fees at the lot before they'll let it out. I would WAIT... call DMV on Tuesday and ask how much all that will be, then call the police impound lot and ask how much it will be before you commit to this.

In NYS you don't need to have a notarized signature on the bill of sale, but he does have to sign the title over as well. Most states require a signature on the original title, a bill of sale alone won't cut it. If he can tell you where to find the title, I'd get that ready to go as well.

Look up your state.gov, then dmv, then sales and title, most of them are pretty self explantory.

You're not going to get that car out before Tuesday no matter what.

Answer 2

First, any notary public can 'notarize' the document. There is probably one at the jail, or you can pay one to accompany you to the jail. The notary must see your friend sign the documents. My personal recommendation would be to have him give you a power of attorney to claim his car. This authorizes you to act in his name and does not require you to buy the car, thus leaving the DMV out of the equation.

Answer 3

it depends on the reason that the car was impounded. if it has been seized as the result of a drug offense, he may lose the car permanently, if it is a registration issue, he will have to resolve that first, and then there will be the matter of the tow and impoundment fee

Answer 4

If I undergo in ideas wisely it is a little greater complicated than that: He can not sell and you may't purchase a automobile whilst it is in impound. the motor vehicle is his, era. even with the undeniable fact that, your first step is to pass to the impound website with a 'capacity of legal expert' which in certainty capacity he can grant the final to handle his legal affairs. (additionally, till the motor vehicle is on the police dept, they are out of the photograph at this factor.) a capacity of legal expert is a legal variety (purchase at place of work Depot/Staples) which will enable you to pay his impound expenditures $$ with out him being present and force the motor vehicle out of the lot. they are very strict approximately freeing somebody's automobile with out legal orders and there is not any way which you will legally very own that automobile whilst it is in impound, if I undergo in ideas wisely. (with the aid of a police public sale, in keeping with possibility) So, you may't even do something at DMV till you get the impound situation resolved. 2nd step is as quickly as the motor vehicle is out and cleared from their impound, take the bill of Sale to DMV to guard the identify to the motor vehicle. by way of fact it is a sale, you will additionally be to blame for the DMV taxes ($) linked with blue e book value of the motor vehicle. you may want him to 'present' the motor vehicle to you, there could be a place on the bill of Sale to mark 'present'. third step is to sell the motor vehicle with it is identify.

Answer 5

I hope you realize that as soon as the car is yours, you now own and have to pay all impound charges.

Answer 6

I believe it does need to be notarized. But if he is in jail....how is he going to do that?