CA - SPCN reg update

[Morgester]

Originally Posted by Got the Bug

Mr Morgester,

Which governmental entity is responsible for investigating illegal registrations and forwarding them to your office for prosecution? If the DMV's main office is investigating, then they are really auditing inconsistencies regarding how their own field offices interpreted and applied "full faith and credit" to register out of state cars with a smog exemption.

Thanks for posting and your efforts to keep the CC community up to date.

We are aware of inconsistencies within DMV field offices and are striving to put forward consistent, understandable, and workable rules.

I am unaware of any arrest or prosecution for registration fraud where the linage of a vehicle is disclosed and DMV choose to register the vehicle in a certain manner. The key for the consumer has always been disclosure. Once you tell DMV what it really is then it is DMV’s issue.

Where you get in trouble is where you know the vehicle was not built in 1965 but you write that down anyway and we all know there is only one reason to do that – getting around emission testing.