Title 63, Motor Vehicles and Traffic Regulations

(a) Any community owner or landowner, his agent or attorney, may initiate a proceeding by filing a complaint under oath for the disposition of an abandoned manufactured or mobile home and associated personal property, setting forth:(a) A statement that the abandoned manufactured …

The filing of a complaint by the community owner or landowner shall constitute consent by the community owner or landowner to the purchaser receiving a Bill of Sale from the sheriff exercising an implied temporary easement to remove the manufactured or mobile home and associated …

Upon finding that the manufactured or mobile home and associated personal property that are the subject of the complaint are in fact abandoned and have not been claimed and the indebtedness of the community owner or landowner has not been paid in full, the court shall enter an or…

Before the commissioner enters upon the discharge of the commissioner’s duties, the commissioner shall take and subscribe an oath before some competent officer, and shall file a copy of the same in the proceeding, that the commissioner will honestly, faithfully and impartially ad…

The commissioner shall advertise a notice of sale by publication and posting. The notice of sale shall be published one (1) time a week for three (3) weeks prior to the sale in a newspaper published in the county where the manufactured or mobile home is located, or, if none such …

The sale shall be made at the place, on the date and during the time set by the court. The sheriff shall conduct the sale and shall charge a reasonable fee for conducting the sale with the fee to be applied to the sheriff’s operating fund. The abandoned manufactured or mobile hom…

Any interested party may, at any time before a sale is made under the terms and provisions of the sale order, stop a threatened sale of a manufactured or mobile home by paying the amount due to the community owner or landowner on the amount actually past due rather than any amoun…

The commissioner shall disburse the bid proceeds as follows: first, to the sheriff for the sheriff’s fee; second, to the tax collector for any past due taxes, liens and assessments; third, to the lien creditors in their order of priority; fourth, to the community owner or landown…

Upon the commissioner filing a report with the court attaching a copy of the sheriff’s report of the sale and a list of the actual or proposed disbursements from the accepted bid, the court may enter a final order approving the sale and the disbursement of the proceeds from the a…

The purchaser shall submit a copy of the Bill of Sale and the Final Order to the Department of Revenue along with such forms as may be prescribed by it for the issuance of a new title to the purchaser.

A community owner or landowner who believes in good faith that the manufactured or mobile home and associated personal property that was the subject of a proceeding to dispose of the same was in fact abandoned shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever to the owner or a lienh…

(a) The following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:(a) “Beneficiary designation” means the designation by an owner of a motor vehicle of a beneficiary of the vehicle as provided by Section 63-21-261.(b) “Designated beneficiar…

(1) An owner of a motor vehicle may transfer the owner’s interest in the motor vehicle to a sole beneficiary effective on the owner’s death by designating a beneficiary as provided by Section 63-21-261. (2) A beneficiary designation is:(a) Subject to Section 63-21-255, revocable …

(1) If a motor vehicle that is the subject of a beneficiary designation is owned by joint owners with right of survivorship, the beneficiary designation must be made by all of the joint owners. (2) A beneficiary designation made by joint owners with right of survivorship:(a) May …

(a) During a motor vehicle owner’s life, a beneficiary designation does not:(a) Affect an interest or right of the owner or owners making the designation, including the right to transfer or encumber the motor vehicle that is the subject of the designation;(b) Create a legal or eq…

(1) On the death of the owner of a motor vehicle that is the subject of a beneficiary designation, the following rules apply to an interest in the motor vehicle:(a) If the designated beneficiary survives the owner making the designation by one hundred twenty (120) hours, the inte…

(1) The owner of a motor vehicle may designate a sole beneficiary to whom the owner’s interest in the vehicle transfers on the owner’s death as provided by this article, by submitting an application for title with the designation. To be effective, the designation must state that …