§ 2017 - Issuance of certificate; records
§ 2017. Issuance of certificate; records
(a) The commissioner shall file each application received and, when satisfied as to its genuineness and regularity and that the applicant is entitled to the issuance of a certificate of title, shall issue a certificate of title of the vehicle.
(b) The commissioner shall maintain at his or her central office a record of all certificates of title issued by him or her:
(1) Under a distinctive title number assigned to the vehicle;
(2) Under the identification number of the vehicle;
(3) Alphabetically, under the name of the owner;
and, in the discretion of the commissioner, by any other method he or she determines. The original records may be maintained on microfilm or electronic imaging. (Added 1969, No. 297 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971; amended 1979, No. 187 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1983, No. 60, § 4; 1991, No. 165 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)