Q: In CA the vehicle code does it say I need current registration to get personal things from a towed vehicle in storage
The registration is back more than 6 months so the cost of renewing is 700. The vehicle is mine and I am last known registered
A:
All vehicles are required to be registered while operating on the highways, or parked in California. The vehicle is required to be registered in the tow yard. You operated the vehicle for free for the last 6 months. Now you get to pay penalties and you find out what happens to unregistered vehicles. The tow yard can sell it for salvage if you wait too long. This is a question of not being Socially Responsible, rather than a safety violation of the Vehicle code. You could be ticketed for operating w/o a current registration, $50 fine= $285 total. So you asked this question twice now, the answer does not change because you ask multiple times. VC 4000 et seq.- does not specifically say the yard must require regis to allow you to access vehicle, but if it is the police tow yard, that is what they are doing.
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