(1) The director or the authorized agent shall use reasonable diligence to ascertain whether the facts stated in an application and other documents submitted to the director or the authorized agent are true. In appropriate cases, the director or authorized agent may require the applicant to furnish additional information regarding ownership of the vehicle and the right to file on behalf of the applicant a certificate of title for the vehicle. The director or the authorized agent may refuse to file a certificate of title to such vehicle if the director or the authorized agent determines that the applicant is not entitled to such certificate.
No certificate of title may be filed for a vehicle required to have its vehicle identification number inspected pursuant to section 42-5-202 unless a vehicle identification number inspection form has been transmitted to the director or the authorized agent showing the number recorded from the vehicle or the number assigned to the vehicle under section 42-12202.
At the request of the title owner, lienholder, or mortgagee, a paper copy of a filedcertificate of title may be issued by the director or the authorized agent.
Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2456, § 1, effective January 1, 1995. L. 2000: Entire section amended, p. 1661, § 11, effective July 1, 2001. L. 2005: Entire section amended, p. 816, § 15, effective August 8. L. 2011: (2) amended, (SB 11-031), ch. 86, p. 248, § 17, effective August 10.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 42-6-115 as it existed prior to 1994.