Idaho Code
Idaho Code § 49-502 (2026)
Delivery of certificate of title upon sale or disposition — Reassignment by dealers.
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Delivery of certificate of title upon sale or disposition — Reassignment by dealers.
(1) No person shall sell or otherwise dispose of a vehicle without delivery to the purchaser or transferee a certificate of title with an assignment as necessary to show title in the purchaser or transferee except as provided for in subsection (2) of this section.
(2) The owner shown on the records of the department of any vehicle that has a 2010 or older model year or has a model year at least twenty (20) years old when transferred after January 1, 2031, or is over sixteen thousand (16,000) pounds gross vehicle weight or has no odometer device, or the owner of any vessel that has a certificate of title that has become lost, mutilated or illegible, may dispose of such vehicle or vessel by delivering to the purchaser or transferee a completed application for duplicate title, together with an assignment as necessary to show title in the purchaser or transferee. To obtain a certificate of title, the purchaser or transferee shall pay the fees pursuant to section 49-202(2)(b), Idaho Code.
(3) No resident shall purchase or otherwise acquire or bring into the state a vehicle except for temporary use as provided by section 49-432, Idaho Code, unless he shall obtain a certificate of title in his name in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(4) Any dealer holding a current Idaho dealer license may, in lieu of having a certificate of title issued in his name, reassign either any existing certificate of title issued in this state or any application of duplicate certificate of title completed pursuant to subsection (2) of this section.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 16
cases, 1950–2016 · leading case: State v. Weise, 273 P.2d 97 (Idaho 1954).
State v. Weise, 273 P.2d 97 (Idaho 1954). “The import of this assignment is to the effect that the evidence will not support beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant was driving her automobile while under the influence of intoxicating liquor in violation of Section 49-502, I.C., or carelessly and heedlessly in willful or…”
State v. Webb, 279 P.2d 634 (Idaho 1955). “To this information appellant filed a demurrer based upon the grounds that Section 49-502, I.C., and Section 49-561, I.”
Northland Ins. v. Boise's Best Autos & Repairs, 970 P.2d 21 (Idaho Ct. App. 1997). “*232 See I.C. §§ 49-502, -503 1 . Northland acknowledges that a dealer holding a valid dealer’s license may avoid the requirement of having a certificate of title issued in the dealer’s name and may, instead, reassign an existing title issued in this state.”
State v. Bennett, 246 P.3d 387 (Idaho 2010). “Idaho Code section 49-502 provides that titled vehicles shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of without delivery to the purchaser of a certificate of title.”
Gugino v. Canyon Fin. of Boise, Inc. (In Re Green), 410 B.R. 904 (Bankr. D. Idaho 2009). “Alternatively, Canyon’s argument that the Greens do not have any interest in the motorcycle is likely foreclosed by Idaho Code § 49-502 , which is an express exception to Idaho Code § 49-503 .”
CIT Fin. Servs. v. Herb's Indoor RV Ctr., Inc., 795 P.2d 890 (Idaho Ct. App. 1990). “See I.C. § 49-502. The retailer's role in disposing of the collateral was limited to contacting prospective new buyers and requesting the lender to participate in a sale by releasing the certificate.”
Miller v. Winstead, 270 P.2d 1010 (Idaho 1954). “Section 49-502, I.C.; Sec. 21-347, Boise City Code.”
Fitzgerald v. First Sec. Bank of Idaho, N.A. (In Re Walker), 161 B.R. 484 (Bankr. D. Idaho 1993). “One of those exceptions concerns transactions governed by Idaho Code § 49-502 23 which *501 provides for the sale of vehicles by dealers without issuance of a new title to the dealer, through the dealer’s reassignment of an existing certificate of title.”
Reynard v. Bank of Am., N.A. (In re Resler), 551 B.R. 835 (Bankr. D. Idaho 2016). “(citing Idaho Code § 49-502 ; Latham Motors, Inc.”
Stafford v. Kootenai Cnty., 252 P.3d 1259 (Idaho 2011). “It was a violation of former Idaho Code § 49-502 , which had been repealed.”
Latham Motors, Inc. v. Phillips, 851 P.2d 985 (Idaho Ct. App. 1992). “This section is now codified as I.C. § 49-502. 5 . Now codified as I.C. § 49-503.”
Foberg v. Harrison, 225 P.2d 69 (Idaho 1950). “8 and 18 define substantially in the language of the statute the criminal offense defined by sections 49-502 and 49-503, I.C., respectively.”
— Idaho Code § 49-502(1) — 1 case
Hestead v. Cna Supply, 272 P.3d 547 (Idaho 2012).
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