Arizona Laws 28-2092. Vehicle seizure
Employees of the department and peace officers, as defined by section 1-215, may seize a vehicle:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 28-2092
- Certificate of title: means a paper document or an electronic record that is issued by the department and that indicates ownership of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Department: means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Owner: means :
(a) A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle. See Arizona Laws 28-101
- Peace officers: means sheriffs of counties, constables, marshals, policemen of cities and towns, commissioned personnel of the department of public safety, personnel who are employed by the state department of corrections and the department of juvenile corrections and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a multicounty water conservation district and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by community college district governing boards and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the Arizona board of regents and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, police officers who are appointed by the governing body of a public airport pursuant to section 28-8426 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, peace officers who are appointed by a private postsecondary institution pursuant to section 15-1897 and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board and special agents from the office of the attorney general, or of a county attorney, and who have received a certificate from the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Serial number: means the number placed on the vehicle by its manufacturer or assigned pursuant to section 28-2165. See Arizona Laws 28-2001
1. From which the serial or other identification number or mark is removed, defaced, obliterated or changed unless either of the following:
(a) An application has been made to the department as provided in this article.
(b) All of the conditions prescribed in subdivision (c) of this paragraph are met.
(c) The vehicle is not a salvage vehicle and the department has not issued a salvage certificate of title or a nonrepairable certificate of title, and all of the following apply:
(i) The frame of the vehicle is the component part replaced.
(ii) The frame replacement is performed by the manufacturer or the manufacturer’s authorized agent.
(iii) If the original frame contained a vehicle identification number or serial number, the original vehicle identification number or serial number, in a similar size and style, is restamped in the replacement frame by the manufacturer or the manufacturer’s authorized agent.
(iv) Any existing manufacturer’s warranty remaining on the vehicle has not been voided.
(v) The manufacturer or the manufacturer’s authorized agent obliterates all vehicle identification numbers or serial numbers contained on the original frame.
(vi) Notification of the frame replacement is entered onto the national insurance crime bureau database.
2. For which the registration or license plates are fictitious.
3. That is being dismantled, scrapped or destroyed by a person who does not have a dismantle certificate of title, nonrepairable vehicle certificate of title or salvage certificate of title issued to the person or if an application for any of those certificates of title has not been made.
4. If it is a salvage vehicle that is being reconstructed or repaired by a person who does not have in the person’s possession a salvage certificate of title in the person’s name or assigned to the person or a work or repair order signed by the owner or agent of the vehicle.