The procedure for re-registration of a car without changing license plates in 2021

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Selling a vehicle always involves the preparation of relevant documents. In 2021, the procedure for re-registering a car at the traffic police takes an impressive amount of time. After it was decided that the car could be sold together with the state registration marks installed on it, the registration period was significantly reduced. Re-registration of a car without changing license plates allows you to save time for the buyer and seller, as well as become the owner of a car with attractive license plates.

Conditions

In 2021, there are several mandatory conditions for re-registration of a newly purchased car without replacing state registration marks. These include:

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• Availability of a car purchase and sale agreement.
• Collected package of documents.
• Paid state duty for services provided by traffic police officers.
• Availability of a car for inspection by traffic police officers.

If the new owner of the vehicle cannot, for some reason, independently participate in the registration process, then delegation of authority to another person is allowed. A prerequisite is the presence of a power of attorney for the right to carry out this operation with a car, which is certified by a notary.

Attention

If the car owner does not plan to replace the state registration plates of the car, then this should be indicated in the application. Forcibly, a traffic police officer will indicate the need to replace plates only if they do not meet the standard in force in the Russian Federation.

If existing state registration marks are erased or have damage that prevents their identification, then they will also have to be replaced with new ones. An alternative solution would be to issue duplicates that can be installed to replace damaged ones.

Re-registration of a car under a general power of attorney

There are situations when the new owner cannot be present when purchasing and re-registering a car. There can be many reasons: from a banal departure to poor health. In this case, the re-registration process can be completed with the help of a third party to whom a general power of attorney has been issued.

There are several types of powers of attorney:

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• one-time;
• special;
• general

As the name suggests, according to the general rule, the trustee receives the most powers, including the right to represent during the re-registration of documents.

Features of re-registration under a general power of attorney

1. In the presence of the former owner

If you and the owner managed to agree on a joint visit to the traffic police department, the registration procedure is almost no different from that described earlier. An authorized person on behalf of the new owner must write an application for a change of owner while maintaining the license plates, undergo an inspection of the car, and pay a state fee. After this, the authorized person receives the documents for the car.

1. Without former owner

In the event that the former owner could not be found or his contacts are lost, re-registration is also possible. In this case, the re-registration occurs in the name of a trustee, and later the re-registration occurs from the trustee in the name of the owner.

Execute a general power of attorney only to the person you really trust. This could be your spouse, a close relative or friend. You cannot issue a power of attorney to a realtor or other intermediary. He may turn out to be a fraud.

Law on re-registration of a car without changing license plates in 2021

In 2021, the legislative framework of the Russian Federation contains several basic regulatory documents that give the right to re-register a vehicle without changing license plates. The main law regulating this procedure is Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia No. 605. It was published on August 7, 2013 and is called “On approval of the Administrative List of Regulations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the provision of public services for registration of vehicles and trailers.” This document states that it is mandatory to change license plates and remove a vehicle from state registration if the buyer is outside the Russian Federation or when registering a vehicle for disposal. In other cases, it is not necessary to deregister a car for sale and replace the license plates with new ones.

The procedure for registering a car without changing state registration marks in 2021 is also regulated by such regulatory documents as:

• Article 333.33, paragraph 36 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation. It describes the calculation of the cost for processing the relevant documents;
• Article 12.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. This regulatory act regulates the degree of punishment for the owner who did not re-register the vehicle within the allotted time.

These regulations list all the registration nuances that a car owner may encounter when re-registering a car without changing license plates in 2021.

Required documents

To register a car as quickly as possible without changing state registration marks in 2021, you will need to collect a package of necessary documents. It includes:

• A correctly completed application for vehicle registration.
• Original PTS (if you do not have the original, you must have a duplicate of the document with you).
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• Concluded purchase and sale agreement.
• STS, which is a confirming document that a vehicle has passed the state registration procedure.

• Passport of the new owner.

IMPORTANT
When re-registering a car without changing license plates in 2021, you must approach the process of collecting documents as responsibly as possible. Otherwise, there is a high risk of refusal to accept them. The procedure for re-registration of the vehicle will be postponed for the period during which the car owner collects and provides the necessary certificates and documents.

How should a car purchase and sale agreement be filled out?

Correct execution of the purchase and sale agreement will allow you to carry out the procedure for re-registration of the vehicle in the shortest possible time and without any delays or complications.

A properly completed contract should contain information such as:

• Information about the place and date of imprisonment.
• Full information about the seller. It includes your full name (for a legal entity, the full name is required, as well as details), registration and actual residence address, as well as the series and number of the passport.
• Complete information about the buyer. Passport details, full name, addresses of place of registration and actual residence.
• Complete information about the car. This is the VIN code, body numbers, chassis, body type, state registration marks, chassis number, body color and year of manufacture. As well as information about the STS (number and date of issue).
• Information that the vehicle is not pledged or under arrest. And also not previously sold to another buyer.
• It is necessary to indicate the amount at which the previous owner valued the car. The fact of transfer of funds and the absence of mutual claims on this issue is also indicated.
• Information is indicated that the right to own a car passes to the new owner from the moment the previous owner receives funds in the established amount.
• Both parties put their signatures at the bottom of the document.

If all the information is contained in the purchase and sale agreement, then registration of the vehicle without changing the license plates proceeds quite quickly. Experts recommend using the help of a qualified lawyer who can advise on the nuances of registration and monitor the transaction.

Responsibility for late registration of a car

Failure to comply with the 10-day period allotted for re-registration of a vehicle with the State Traffic Inspectorate entails the imposition of an administrative penalty in the form of a fine:

• for individuals – from 1500 to 2000 rubles;
• for organizations – from 5,000 to 10,000 rubles;
• for officials – from 2000 to 3500 rubles.

A driver driving a car with an expired registration will face a fine of 500 to 800 rubles, and if the violation is repeated, the amount will increase to 5,000 rubles. In some cases, punishment is applied in the form of deprivation of a driver's license for 1-3 months.

The procedure for re-registration of a car without changing license plates

To make the procedure for re-registration of a car without changing license plates in 2021 as easy as possible for the owner, we will consider each stage in detail:

• Collection of the necessary package of documents. If for any reason the owner has questions about the advisability of providing this or that paper, we recommend that you read the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 605, paragraph 15. An alternative is to contact an employee of the State Road Safety Inspectorate with a request to advise on this issue.
• Visit the nearest traffic police department or the one that has the most convenient territorial location. Use the terminal to get a ticket and wait for your turn.

Attention:
The owner does not have to contact the traffic police department at his place of residence. It is enough to choose an organization that is located in the most convenient place for a person (at his place of work or simply in the area along his daily route).

• Hand over the previously prepared documentation to the traffic police officer performing the reception.
• Place the vehicle on the site intended for inspection by the inspector.
• Go through the vehicle inspection procedure. The inspector will check the numbers and VIN code indicated in the PTS, and also conduct an external inspection of the car.
• Pay the full amount of the state fee for the services provided.
• Get new documents. Traffic police officers make changes to PTS and STS, as well as to their own database.

IMPORTANT
You should not delay the process of paying state fees.
Until the traffic police officer is convinced that there is a receipt for payment, the process of issuing new documentation will be stopped. For maximum convenience of citizens, most traffic police departments have a terminal that allows you to pay the state fee on the spot.

Is it possible to re-register a car without a license?

According to the law, a person without a driver’s license can become the new owner of a car. In this case, he has the right to dispose of the car, but cannot drive. However, he will still have to go through the re-registration procedure. To do this, you can use the services of any citizen who has a driver’s license and is registered with OSAGO. You can also take out open insurance. Its cost is higher than usual, but it allows any driver to drive the car.

Thus, despite the simplification of the re-registration procedure, it still requires compliance with a number of nuances. You can re-register a car at any traffic police department, without reference to the owner’s registration.

Car registration deadlines

The owner should know that he has only 10 days from the date of concluding the purchase and sale agreement to register a newly purchased vehicle without changing the license plates in 2021. This period of time is regulated by Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 399. That is, within 10 calendar days from the date of purchase of the car, the new owner must visit the traffic police and go through the state registration procedure. If it was decided not to change the license plates, then the duration of registration will be relatively short.

In 2021, maximum time intervals have been established for each stage of vehicle registration:

• No more than 15 minutes to wait for a call using a ticket taken from the terminal.
• It takes about 20 minutes to check the information provided, which is contained in the package of documents. The traffic police inspector sends a request to both the customs service and the tax service.
• The inspector inspects the vehicle for no more than 20 minutes at a site specially equipped for this purpose.
• Making a decision to register or refuse takes about 10 minutes.

Attention:
If registration of a vehicle without replacing license plates in 2021 occurs in the name of a legal entity, then the duration of each stage remains unchanged.
The only difference will be an expanded package of documents that will need to be provided to the traffic police officer. Collecting documentation takes more time.

How much does it cost to redo documents on a vehicle?

In accordance with Article 333.35 of the Tax Code, the amount of state duty is:

Wherein:

Re-registration price

In 2021, the total cost of registration remains unchanged. It is regulated by the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, Article 333.33, paragraph 36, and consists of several components:

• registration of STS will cost the owner 500 rubles;
• Registration of PTS will cost 800 rubles.

Additional information
If there is no free space in the PTS to enter additional information about the new owner, it becomes necessary to obtain a duplicate of the document. The cost of this service is also regulated by the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, Article 333.33 and amounts to an additional 800 rubles to the total amount.

Fines for registering a car without changing license plates in 2021

If in 2021 the new owner did not carry out the procedure for re-registration of the car without changing the license plates within the period established by law (10 days from the date of concluding the purchase and sale agreement and purchasing the vehicle), then all fines for traffic violations will be sent to the name of the previous owner.

This applies to exceeding the speed limit and other violations that were recorded by automatic means of photo and video recording. Experts recommend that when receiving fines for an offense committed by the new owner, do not delay and immediately visit the nearest traffic police department.

The previous owner submits the previously prepared package of documents to the inspector. It includes:

• Contract of sale.
• A correctly completed application requesting the deregistration of this vehicle.

Since the purchase and sale agreement has been concluded and the vehicle with keys and documents has been transferred to the new owner, the previous owner is not obliged to provide copies of the PTS and STS. The traffic police officer must deregister the car based on the received application and the purchase and sale agreement.

conclusions

Re-registering a car with the traffic police is not such a difficult task. If everything is fine with the documents and the vehicle, this procedure can be completed in one day, and by appointment - in 2-3 hours. To quickly resolve all formalities with the traffic police, when purchasing a car, carefully check the title and compare its data with the numbers on the body. If there is no space left for entries in the paper registration certificate, ask the seller to first obtain a duplicate of the document from the traffic police, since it is issued only to the current owner.

Nuances

Experts recommend not to delay the car registration procedure. This will allow you to avoid many unpleasant moments associated with receiving fines for the previous owner. Or with the seizure of a vehicle that is registered with the previous owner. This situation arises if the car owner, for example, has an outstanding debt on traffic police fines or loans.

The new owner should remember that in 2021, you can sign up for the re-registration of a vehicle without changing the license plates on the State Services portal. This solution will significantly reduce the period of time waiting for your turn and will speed up the procedure at the MREO.

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Procedure for registration of PTS

When the procedure for registering a contract for the purchase of a car in person is completed, it is necessary to make a new entry in the vehicle passport. Be careful when filling it out and write legibly! You need to enter:

• date of purchase;
• number of the document confirming ownership and date of registration;
• signatures of the seller and buyer.

Please note that if one of the parties to the transaction has the status of a legal entity, the signature must be certified by a seal.

If there is no free space left in your passport (this happens infrequently, but it happens), you will have to go with the seller to the traffic police to get a new one. The inspection staff will replace the document (all data will be checked against the electronic database) and re-register the car.

This concludes the process of purchasing a used car. After making an entry in the PTS, the money is transferred. It is better to transfer funds by bank transfer (unless another method was initially agreed upon). In this case, the fact of the transfer will be additionally recorded, which will protect the buyer.