Losing our loved ones is a loss that can’t ever be repaired. But since everything has to keep moving, many legal assets have to be handed over and passed on, once our loved ones leave us forever. Passing on other things might be easy but, many legal assets can only be transferred by a standard process. When it comes to selling the car of a deceased owner, the vehicle ownership transfer has to be done in order to transfer the car from the decedent’s name. For vehicle ownership transfer to get done, you will have to follow the steps a few steps depending on the situation.
Selling the car of a deceased owner is more of an emotional decision but to finish off all the paperwork is another hassle. Following are the steps that you need to check and follow for selling a deceased person’s car:
First of all, the heir needs to ensure that who is the rightful owner of the car according to the will of the deceased person. To sell a car, one would need a letter of authority which is allotted by the regional court or the SDM
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After the letter of authority, you would need to clear loan if there is any on the deceased person’s car. You would need RTO Form 30 and RTO Form 31 filled and submitted to the RTO
Also, you would need to NOC from the bank or financial institution in order to remove hypothecation form the RC.
When the vehicle ownership has to be passed onto the first legal heir of the deceased person, it is necessary to have a valid death certificate.
You would not only need the death certificate for selling the car of a deceased person, but also for many registration transfer cases for other assets and property
The registration certificate for the car is a mandatory asset to be submitted for the vehicle registration transfer for selling car of a deceased owner
An attested copy of a valid insurance certificate is required to be submitted to the regional RTO for vehicle ownership transfer on the receiver’s name
An attested copy of the address proof of the applicant is required to be submitted to the regional RTO when you are selling the car of a deceased person
An attested copy of a valid PUC certificate is required too. Since PUC certificate is validated in a span of months, the PUC should be up to date.
An attested copy of PAN Card of the applicant is required. If the buyer doesn’t have a PAN card, they can use RTO Form 60 and Form 61
Verification of the vehicle is done on RTO form 20, which you need to submit to the regional RTO
Apart from these documents, you should also make a note of certain things while doing all the above
Also Read – Procedure for obtaining NOC at RTO
The application to the zonal officer/SDM must be submitted within 30 days of death, else a penalty of INR 100/- will be charged on a mothly basis
