46.2-617 - Sale of vehicle without certificate of title. - Virginia Statutes

§ 46.2-617. Sale of vehicle without certificate of title.

Except as provided in § 46.2-644.03, any person who sells, trades, exchanges,or barters a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer in the Commonwealthwithout first having secured a certificate of title for it or without legallyhaving in his possession a certificate of title for the vehicle issued to itsowner, except as otherwise provided in this title, shall be guilty of a Class3 misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, § 46-7; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-88; 1968, c. 605; 1978, c. 605;1988, c. 363; 1989, c. 727; 2009, c. 664.)