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As seen from la.general,
jwbishop@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Bishop)
wrote in article <7t2trv$p5j$1@agate-ether.berkeley.edu>:

>In article <rv7s3tdq3i577@corp.supernews.com>,
>Craig Berry <cberry@cinenet.net> wrote:
>
>>Not quite right.  You do in fact own your car (if it's paid off, of
>>course).  You are perfectly free to do anything with it other than put it
>>on a public street (keep it in the garage, on display in a museum,
>>whatever) without the DMV caring beyond tracking title.
>
>Unfortunately, that's not true either.  You still have to register it as non-
>operational and pay an annual fee.

    Nope.  It's like this:  Say you have a vehicle that you need to put
    in storage for a while.  When the registration renewal form arrives
    in the mail, you check the "non operation" box, and send it in with
    the fee ($5, last I recall).  If you =don't= do that, and later on
    want to bring your vehicle out of storage and operate it on public
    streets again, the DMV hits you with all the (full) back
    registration fees (plus penalties) for the years you didn't register
    it as non-operational.  It used to be that you could fill out a
    Certificate of Non-Operation when you wanted to register the vehicle
    again, but the DMV no longer accepts that-- you now have to register
    it each year (and get your registration in by the deadline) to keep
    your non-op status on it.  But if you don't plan to register it at
    all, I'm reasonably sure that none of this is necessary.

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