New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 21 - LICENSING SERVICE
Subchapter 22 - SALVAGE CERTIFICATES OF TITLE
Section 13:21-22.1 - Purpose

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 13:21-22.1

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) 39:10-31 et seq. provide for the issuance of salvage certificates of title and regulate the transfer of ownership of salvage motor vehicles. The purposes of this subchapter are to:

1. Establish standards and procedures necessary to protect the public from fraud by preventing negotiable certificates of ownership for salvage motor vehicles from being used to title or register stolen or other motor vehicles;

2. Establish standards and procedures necessary to protect the public from fraud by providing for the seizure of salvage motor vehicles which are determined, after inspection pursuant to this subchapter, to be stolen or reconstructed, rebuilt or repaired using parts from stolen motor vehicles.

3. Establish standards and procedures necessary to notify the public that a salvage motor vehicle has been subsequently reconstructed, rebuilt or repaired;

4. Establish standards and procedures for the issuance of salvage certificates of title;

5. Establish a system which regulates the transfer of ownership of salvage motor vehicles only as salvage motor vehicles until a negotiable certificate of ownership is obtained;

6. Establish standards and procedures for the inspection of salvage motor vehicles;

7. Establish standards and procedures for the issuance of negotiable certificates of ownership after the salvage motor vehicle has been inspected in accordance with the requirements of this subchapter; and

8. Establish standards for the issuance of salvage and/ or negotiable certificates of title that do not cause unreasonable burden to persons or entities licensed by the Chief Administrator as auto body repair facilities, junk yards and/or motor vehicle dealers.

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