(a) The Office of Motor Vehicle, upon receipt of a properly endorsed certificate of title and proper application for registration accompanied by the required fee, and when satisfied as to the genuineness and regularity of the transfer and of the right of the transferee to a certificate of title, shall reregister the vehicle as upon a new registration in the name of the new owner and issue a new certificate of title as upon an original application.
(b) The office shall retain and appropriately file every surrendered certificate of title, the file to be so maintained as to permit the tracing of title of the vehicle designated therein.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing
Chapter 14 - Motor Vehicle Administration, Certificate of Title, and Antitheft Act
Subchapter 9 - Transfers of Title and Registration
§ 27-14-902. Transfer or assignment by owner or lessee generally
§ 27-14-903. Registration by transferee — Title retention notes
§ 27-14-904. Transfers to dealers
§ 27-14-906. Dealer and lienholder applications for registration and title certificates
§ 27-14-907. Transfer by operation of law — Definition
§ 27-14-908. Assignment by lienholder
§ 27-14-909. Release of lien by lienholder — Disclosure of information
§ 27-14-910. Reregistration — File
§ 27-14-911. Transferor not liable for negligent operation
§ 27-14-912. Dismantling or wrecking vehicles
§ 27-14-913. Sale of motor vehicles to be dismantled, etc
§ 27-14-914. Transfer of license plates and registration from one vehicle to another
§ 27-14-915. Transfer of license on vehicles for hire
§ 27-14-916. Notice of sale or transfer
§ 27-14-917. Time requirements for payment of lien or encumbrance