Senate Bill sb1402

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1402

    By Senator Campbell





    32-689-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to motor vehicle title

  3         certificates; amending s. 319.23, F.S.;

  4         requiring the Department of Highway Safety and

  5         Motor Vehicles to maintain certain records for

  6         10 years; providing an effective date.

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  8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         Section 1.  Subsection (5) of section 319.23, Florida

11  Statutes, is amended, and subsection (11) is added to that

12  section, to read:

13         319.23  Application for, and issuance of, certificate

14  of title.--

15         (5)  The certificate of title issued by the department

16  for a motor vehicle or mobile home previously registered

17  outside this state shall give the name of the state or country

18  in which the vehicle was last registered outside this state.

19  The department shall retain the evidence of title presented by

20  the applicant upon which the certificate of title is issued.

21  The department shall use reasonable diligence in ascertaining

22  whether or not the facts in the application are true; and, if

23  satisfied that the applicant is the owner of the motor vehicle

24  or mobile home and that the application is in the proper form,

25  it shall issue a certificate of title.

26         (11)  All titles, manufacturers' statements of origin,

27  applications, and supporting documents submitted with the

28  application, including, but not limited to, odometer

29  statements, vehicle identification number verifications, bills

30  of sale, indicias of ownership, dealer reassignments,

31  photographs, and any personal identification, affidavits, or

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1402
    32-689-03




 1  documents required by or submitted to the department, shall be

 2  retained by the department for not less than 10 years.

 3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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 7    Requires the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
      Vehicles to retain for at least 10 years certain
 8    documents pertaining to certificates of title.

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