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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72160</law_id><section_number>46.2-654.1</section_number><catch_line>Temporary registration issued for purchasers of motor vehicles from motor vehicle dealers who are no longer engaged in business and title is held by person other than dealer</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Titling, Registration and Licensure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Titling and Registration of Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Temporary Registration</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> may <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a temporary registration to any purchaser of a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> who is unable to obtain the title for such vehicle because the <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> dealer who sold the vehicle to the purchaser is no longer engaged in business in the Commonwealth as a dealer as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/46.2-1500/">46.2-1500</a> and the title is held by a person other than such dealer.</p></section></text><history>2012, c. 119; 2015, c. 615.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
