PURPOSE: This rule establishes the procedures for issuance of a junking certificate.
Editor’s Note: The form mentioned in this rule follows 12 CSR 10-23.265.
(1) The department will issue a junking certificate to the purchaser of a vehicle which is sold for parts, scrapping or junking and not for rebuilding or reconstruction. An applicant must submit the following documents to the department in order to obtain a junking certificate:
- (A) Application for junking certificate; and
- (B) Proof of ownership in the form of a properly assigned salvage certificate of title, junking certificate, original certificate of title, court order or proof of compliance with state statutes.
- (2) If the seller of the vehicle has not made application for a salvage certificate of title, junking certificate or an original certificate of title in his/her name but the seller has been, nonetheless, properly assigned that certificate by the previous owner, the seller must provide the purchaser with a notarized, descriptive bill of sale to the vehicle as well as the outstanding certificate of ownership on which the seller appears as the last assignee.
- (3) If the department determines the seller violated the provisions of section 301.190, RSMo by failing to take title to and pay taxes on the vehicle, the department will initiate tax assessment action against the seller. The action shall in no way impede issuance of a junking certificate to the purchaser of the vehicle; except that, if the department’s records show that a lien has been perfected on the vehicle, the applicant for a junking certificate must obtain and submit a notarized lien release from the prior owner’s lienholder before a junking certificate may be issued.
AUTHORITY: section 301.227, RSMo Supp. 1990.* Original rule filed Nov. 18, 1986, effective March 12, 1987.
*Original authority: 301.227, RSMo 1979, amended 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990.