The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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GENERAL REGISTRATION
(Cite as: 23 V.S.A. § 321)
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§ 321. Procedure upon transfer
Upon the transfer of ownership of any registered motor vehicle, its registration shall
expire. The person in whose name the transferred vehicle was registered shall immediately
return to the Commissioner the registration certificate assigned to the transferred
vehicle, with the date of transfer and the name and residence of the new owner endorsed
on the back. However, the Commissioner may accept any other satisfactory evidence
of the date of transfer and new ownership. The transferor shall immediately remove
the registration number plates from the transferred vehicle and may attach the registration
number plates to another unregistered motor vehicle owned by him or her and the owner
or operator shall not, for a period of 60 days, be subject to a civil penalty for
the operation of the latter motor vehicle without the proper registration certificate,
provided he or she has, within 24 hours of the transfer, made application, as provided
in section 323 of this title, for transfer of the registration number plates. If such application for transfer
is not so received by the Commissioner, the number plates shall be returned to the
Commissioner at the end of five days after the transfer of ownership. (Amended 1975, No. 68, § 1, eff. April 18, 1975; 1987, No. 112, § 8; 2017, No. 71, § 6; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 145.)