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Consumers and community cleanup projects should

benefit from the tool through legal and final means of

retiring nuisance and abandoned vehicles without

fear of identity or title fraud from legal loose ends.

The new rule also included codifying NMVTIS into

to Iowa law

to make it an Iowa violation for enti-

ties that are not reporting salvage vehicles once they

have reached the five vehicle threshold for reporting

requirements.

Although under-utilized, the Nation-

al Motor Vehicle Titling Information

System or NMVTIS has the ability

to hinder title cloning and auto theft

by making data from recyclers

available to law enforcement officers. Unlicensed

buyers of vehicles may be selling titles or Vehicle

Identification Numbers from the salvage they acquire

while leaving titles open by not reporting to NMVTIS

nor the state DOT that the vehicle has reached the

end-of-life status.

Iowa Automotive Recyclers along with Automotive

Recyclers Association (ARA) advocates for the re-

sponsible and accountable disposition of all total loss

vehicles for either repair or end of life processing.

Further, ARA recommends that all efforts be taken to

support the reporting of total loss vehicles to NMVTIS

and the full compliance with NMVTIS requirements by

all participants engaged in the sale and processing of

salvage vehicles.

ARA believes that all entities involved

in the automobile dismantling supply

chain should be required to report to

NMVTIS, including: state motor vehicle

titling agencies, tow operators, towing

companies, auto recyclers, salvage yards, insurance

carriers, scrap vehicle shredders and scrap metal

processors, “pull- or pick-apart yards,” salvage pools,

salvage auctions and other types of auctions, and

businesses and individuals that handle salvage vehi-

cles, including vehicles declared a “total loss".

Buying a Scrap Vehicle without a Title in Iowa

Iowa NMVTIS Law

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af·fi·da·vit

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noun

1.

a written statement con-

firmed by oath or affirmation,

for use as evidence in court.