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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".
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Iowa NMVTIS Law
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noun
1.
a written statement con-
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