2021 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 56 - Motor Vehicles
Chapter 19 - Protection Of Titles To And Interests In Motor Vehicles
Section 56-19-820. Owners of lienholders may report thefts or conversions; Department of Motor Vehicles may disregard report; recovery to be reported.

Universal Citation: SC Code § 56-19-820 (2021)

An owner or a lienholder may report the theft of a vehicle, or its conversion if a crime, to the Department of Motor Vehicles, but the Department may disregard the report of a conversion unless a warrant has been issued for the arrest of a person charged with the conversion. A person who has so reported the theft or conversion of a vehicle shall forthwith after learning of its recovery report the recovery to the Department.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 46-150.62; 1957 (50) 595.

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