No conditional sale contract, conditional lease, chattel mortgage, or other lien or encumbrance or title retention instrument upon a vehicle, of a type subject to registration under the laws of this state other than a lien dependent upon possession, is valid as against the creditors of an owner acquiring a lien by levy or attachment or subsequent purchasers or encumbrances, with or without notice, until the requirements of this subchapter have been complied with.
Ark. Code Ann. § 27-14-801
Compliance required
Known as the Motor Vehicle Administration, Certificate of Title, and Antitheft Act
The act spans §§ 27-14-1002 to 27-14-917 (209 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Meeks v. Mercedes-Benz Credit Corp. (In Re Stinnett) (1999)
Most recently applied in Bank of England v. Rice (In re Webb) (October 2014)
Acts 1949, No. 142, § 60; 1951, No. 208, § 1; 1959, No. 307, § 9; 1973, No. 596, § 3; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-160.
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Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.