Pennsylvania legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Pennsylvania HB593: An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in abandoned vehicles and cargos, further providing for notice to owner and lienholders of abandoned vehicles, for authorization for disposal of unclaimed vehicles and for processing of nonrepairable or salvage vehicles.
Status: Passed one chamber, October 20, 2026
What the bill says
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in abandoned vehicles and cargos, further providing for notice to owner and lienholders of abandoned vehicles, for authorization for disposal of unclaimed vehicles and for processing of nonrepairable or salvage vehicles.
From the introduced text, February 12, 2025:
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in abandoned vehicles and cargos, further providing for notice to owner and lienholders of abandoned vehicles, for authorization for disposal of unclaimed vehicles and for processing of nonrepairable or salvage vehicles. The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows: Section 1. Sections 7305(a) and (c), 7307 and 7309(a) and (b) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read: § 7305. Notice to owner and lienholders of abandoned vehicles. (a) General rule.--The department upon receipt of an abandoned vehicle information report shall, within 10 business days, notify by certified mail, return receipt requested, the last known registered owner of the vehicle and all lienholders of record that the vehicle is being held as abandoned. * * * (c) Notice by publication.--If the identity of the last registered owner and of all lienholders cannot be determined with reasonable certainty, the contents of the notice set forth in subsection (b) shall be published one time in one newspaper of general circulation in the area where the vehicle was abandoned[.] within 10 business days of the date that the department determines a registered owner and lienholders cannot be determined with reasonable certainty. The notice may contain multiple listings of abandoned vehicles. Notice by publication locally shall be …