Hi there,
My name is Scott. I recently purchased a 1979 yamaha xs400 from a person off craigslist. The motorcycle has a clean title but 3-4 years in dmv back fees. Unfortunately I didnt not find out about the back fees until after I purchased it and tried to do a title transfer at the DMV. They said I owe from 2010 till 2013 registration and penalties. The total cost is around $650. The reason why is is so high is because the previous owner before the guy I purchased it from failed to put the bike into no-op status. Most of the fees are from the CHP penalties, about $360. The rest is the just regular registration fees for the past 3 years. The guy I purchased it from said he received the bike as a payment from the previous owner before him. He had never planned on registering it and was only going to sell it immediately to get back what was owed to him.
Anyways, I went to 2 different DMVs in hopes of possibly getting a forgiving employee. No such luck. I came home and decided to go online to do more research on this. I found through the DMV website (official website) Vehicle Code 9562. Its basically a code stating that if you were unaware of the back fees prior to purchasing that you may have the fees waived. I assume this was not mentioned to him by any DMV employees because they are all told to never waive fees and they probably didnt know this code existed. I was thinking about printing the code out directly from the website and bringing it with me to the DMV next time and showing them that it states that I qualify to have my fees waived.
I just wanted to find out if anyone has ever heard of this being done successfully. I just have the feeling that the DMV will try to claim they never heard of the VC and deny me because I'm sure most of them dont know anything at the DMV.
the website is http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d03/vc9562.htm
My name is Scott. I recently purchased a 1979 yamaha xs400 from a person off craigslist. The motorcycle has a clean title but 3-4 years in dmv back fees. Unfortunately I didnt not find out about the back fees until after I purchased it and tried to do a title transfer at the DMV. They said I owe from 2010 till 2013 registration and penalties. The total cost is around $650. The reason why is is so high is because the previous owner before the guy I purchased it from failed to put the bike into no-op status. Most of the fees are from the CHP penalties, about $360. The rest is the just regular registration fees for the past 3 years. The guy I purchased it from said he received the bike as a payment from the previous owner before him. He had never planned on registering it and was only going to sell it immediately to get back what was owed to him.
Anyways, I went to 2 different DMVs in hopes of possibly getting a forgiving employee. No such luck. I came home and decided to go online to do more research on this. I found through the DMV website (official website) Vehicle Code 9562. Its basically a code stating that if you were unaware of the back fees prior to purchasing that you may have the fees waived. I assume this was not mentioned to him by any DMV employees because they are all told to never waive fees and they probably didnt know this code existed. I was thinking about printing the code out directly from the website and bringing it with me to the DMV next time and showing them that it states that I qualify to have my fees waived.
I just wanted to find out if anyone has ever heard of this being done successfully. I just have the feeling that the DMV will try to claim they never heard of the VC and deny me because I'm sure most of them dont know anything at the DMV.
the website is http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d03/vc9562.htm