Lien on motor vehicles, boats, motors, manufactured homes and trailers, when, procedure
When someone owes more than $1,000 in unpaid child support, the state can put a hold (called a lien) on that person's car, boat, motor, manufactured home, or trailer. This blocks the person from getting a clean ownership title for that property. The lien can only be placed if the property is worth more than $3,000 and was made within the last 7 years. Once the person pays off all the child support they owe, the lien gets removed. Someone who buys the property without knowing about the lien is protected and does not have to deal with it.
454.516. on motor vehicles, boats, motors, d homes and trailers, when, procedure — notice, contents — of lien, , removal of lien — public sale, when — — child support lien database to be maintained. — 1. The or may cause a lien s 2 and 3 of this section or the may cause a lien pursuant to subsection 8 of this section for unpaid and support to block the of a for motor vehicles, motor boats, outboard motors, manufactured homes and trailers that are in the name of a delinquent child support .
2. The director or IV-D agency shall notify the with the required necessary to impose a lien pursuant to this section by a notice of lien.
3. The director or IV-D agency shall not notify the department of revenue and the department of revenue shall not lien except as provided in this subsection. After the director or IV-D agency decide that such lien qualifies pursuant to this section and forward it to the department of revenue, the or the director's shall only file such lien against the obligor's certificate of ownership when:
(1) The obligor has unpaid child support which exceeds one thousand dollars;
(2) The property has a value of more than three thousand dollars as determined by current industry publications that provide such estimates to s in the business, and the property's year of manufacture is within seven years of the date of filing of the lien except in the case of a motor vehicle that has been a historic vehicle;
(3) The property has no more than two existing liens for child support;
(4) The property has had no more than three prior liens for child support in the same .
4. In the event that a lien is placed and the obligor's total is eliminated, the director shall notify the department of revenue that the lien shall be .
5. Upon notification that a lien exists pursuant to this section, the department of revenue shall register the lien on the records of the department of revenue. Such registration shall contain the type and model of the property and the serial number of the property.
6. Upon notification by the director that the lien shall be removed pursuant to subsection 4 of this section, the department of revenue shall register such removal of lien on its database, that shall contain the type and model of the property and the serial number of the property.
7. A without notice of the lien or a lender without notice of the lien takes free of the lien.
8. In cases which are not , to cause a lien pursuant to the of this section the obligee or the obligee's attorney shall file notice of the lien with the department of revenue. This notice shall have attached a of the with all modifications and a by the obligee or a from the court attesting to or certifying the amount of .
9. any other law to the contrary, the department of revenue shall maintain a child support lien database that may be collected against the owner on a certificate of ownership provided for by chapters 301, 306 and 700. To determine any existing liens for child support pursuant to this section, the , dealer or buyer may inquire electronically into the database. A good faith purchaser for value without notice of the lien or a lender without notice of the lien takes free of the lien.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1986 H.B. 1479, A.L. 1993 S.B. 253, A.L. 1997 S.B. 361, A.L. 2002 H.B. 2008 and S.B. 895, A.L. 2009 H.B. 481)
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