Form T-56 - Notice To Vehicle Owner - Payment Of A 'Total Loss' Claim (Page 3 of 3) in pdf

After you obtain a salvage title and rebuild or restore the vehicle or have someone rebuild or restore the vehicle

for you, you must apply for a Rebuilt title and a Motor Vehicle Division inspection. To apply for a Rebuilt title

and an inspection, the following documents and fees should be submitted together to one of the privately owned

and state-approved inspection stations or to this Department’s Salvage Section at the following address: ATTN:

Salvage Section, DOR/Motor Vehicle Division, P. O. Box 740384, ATLANTA, GA 30374-0384: Visit our web site,

, for the address and telephone numbers of the state-approved inspections stations.

One (1) or more photographs of the motor vehicle in its salvage condition must be submitted.

A completed

Title/Tag Application, Form

MV-1. This application should be typed, electronically completed

and printed or printed legibly by-hand in blue or black ink in the vehicle owners’ full legal names and

signed by the vehicle owners. An individual’s full legal name is his/her complete name as it appears on

his/her valid driver’s license. If jointly owned, each owner’s full legal name, valid driver’s license number

and signature is required. For reference purposes only, the name of the state or country issuing the

driver’s license should be shown in the spaces provided. For individual owners, please enter each owner’s

valid driver’s license number in the spaces provided. Please do not use an Application for an Original or

Replacement ‘Salvage’ Title, Form MV-1S, to apply for a Rebuilt title.

The original salvage title issued in the vehicle owners’ names.

A completed

Request for Inspection of a Rebuilt Motor Vehicle, Form

T-22R.

A completed

Labor and Parts Certification, Form

T-129, signed with the signature notarized. The notary

public must sign, affix his/her notary seal or stamp and record the date his/her notary commission expires

in the spaces provided for this information on this form.

Bills of sale showing the vehicle owners or the re-builder as the purchaser listing each part used in

repairing or restoring the vehicle. These bills of sale must indicate whether the part was purchased ‘new’

or ‘used’. The stock number or part number must be shown along with the part name, when the part is

purchased ‘new’. When the part is purchased ‘used’, the serial number of the vehicle the part was taken

from must be shown. Each part’s bill of sale must be signed with the seller’s full signature, not their

initials. The title for the vehicle the parts were taken from must be on file with this Department or

submitted at the time of application. If the title for the part’s vehicle was submitted to another state, you

must obtain and submit a signed letterhead statement certifying that the title is on file with their office.

A certified check or money order should be submitted in the amount of $118.00 made payable to the

Department of Revenue for the $18.00 title fee and the $100.00 inspection fee. When applying at a state-

approved inspection station, your check or money order should be made payable to the Department of

Revenue. The inspection stations charge a fee for the use of their facilities. Please do not include the

inspection station’s fee in your check or money order for the fees due the state, $18.00 title fee and

$100.00 inspection fee. Contact the applicable inspection station for their fee, the days and hours they are

open for inspections, acceptable method of payment, i.e. certified check, money order, cash, etc.

Important: This vehicle must pass an inspection by this Department’s Inspection Section of the Motor Vehicle

Division before a title or a license plate will be issued. An inspection fee ($100) is required each time the vehicle

is inspection.

When applying for a Rebuilt title, the Motor Vehicle Division’s Inspection Section will be notified once the

required fees and documents, properly completed, are received. An inspector will call your contact person at the

telephone numbers listed on your

Request for Inspection of a Rebuilt Motor Vehicle, Form

T-22R, to schedule an

appointment for the inspection of the vehicle during business hours, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through

Friday, excluding

state holidays.

If the vehicle passes their inspection and the vehicle is eligible for a Georgia title,

the inspector will authorize the issuance of a Georgia title. If the vehicle’s restoration to a safe operative condition

required the replacement of one (1) or more major component parts, the title when issued will reflect the Brand

‘Rebuilt’.

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