There are often situations in our lives when documents have disappeared without a trace. They could simply be lost or stolen. There is no need to immediately run and restore the title, as difficulties may arise when applying for insurance or selling a car if you provide a document marked “duplicate”.
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On the other hand, you definitely can’t hesitate, because if the vehicle’s passport falls into the hands of fraudsters, an extremely unpleasant situation may arise.
In the case when the owner of the car is absolutely sure that it is impossible to find the title, how to restore it, how much does it cost and how long does it take? Answers to these and other questions can be found in the article.
Algorithm of actions in case of loss of PTS
What should a driver do if the vehicle’s passport is lost:
- Pay the state fee.
- Collect the necessary package of documents.
- Go to the traffic police department, exactly where the vehicle is registered.
- Fill out the application form provided and indicate the reason.
- Wait from an hour to five business days.
- Come to the department after notification from the employees and pick up the document. Important! It will indicate that it is a duplicate and not an original.
The process of restoring rights through public services
You can restore your rights through State Services if they are lost by having a verified account on the portal. In order to restore lost rights through State Services, you must:
- go to the website gosuslugi.ru.
- Select the item “Replacement of driver’s license”.
- Indicate the reason for the replacement.
- ABOUT.
Note! There is no need to take the traffic rules test again.
Required documents in case of loss of vehicle passport
When contacting the inspectorate, you need to prepare in advance:
- Russian Federation passport (copies of all pages and the original).
- An agreement stating that the citizen is the owner of the car. A purchase and sale agreement will do.
- Certificate of registration.
- Insurance.
- A receipt indicating that the duty has been paid.
- Application form. The form will be issued on the spot or you can first find it on the Internet, download it, fill it out at home without haste and take it to the traffic police.
- A written explanation of the reasons why the technical equipment passport was lost. If the reasons include theft, a certificate of opening a criminal case will be required. You can find out more about this below.
In addition, you will need to park the car in a nearby parking lot so that an inspection officer can inspect it.
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Let's simulate the most unpleasant situation, when all the documents for the car are lost: title, vehicle registration certificate, compulsory motor liability insurance policy and diagnostic card. Many car owners, remembering that the PTS is not required to be presented to traffic police officers, do not store it in the car and do not carry it with them, keeping it at home along with other important documents. However, we will also consider its loss - especially since the loss of the PTS is the most unpleasant case of all possible scenarios.
So, the PTS is lost. The procedure for restoring it is simple: you need to contact any convenient traffic police department and write an application for the issuance of a PTS to replace the lost one, having previously paid the fee for issuing a duplicate vehicle passport, and also present your passport and car purchase and sale agreement when applying.
Yes, exactly a duplicate: this is the most unpleasant circumstance in the whole story. There can only be one original PTS, and if it is lost, the newly issued document will be stamped “Duplicate” and marked “Replace the lost one.” This is a very “inconvenient” mark: many avoid buying a car with such a mark in the title, fearing fraud - a scheme to obtain a duplicate title for the illegal sale of a car really exists. Therefore, try to be careful with your car passport and not lose it.
Along with your new passport, you will be given a new vehicle registration certificate - do not forget to pay the fee for its issuance in advance. By the way, you do not need to provide a car for inspection when receiving duplicate documents.
3. How to restore the vehicle registration certificate?
Restoring the registration certificate is even less of a problem. The restoration procedure is no different from that with a PTS: you need to fill out a standard application, pay a fee and present your passport and PTS when contacting the traffic police. In addition to the fee for issuing the certificate itself, you will also need to pay a fee for making changes to the PTS. Unlike the PTS, the registration certificate is not marked “duplicate”, so its loss will not cause you any further inconvenience other than wasted time and money.
4. How to restore the MTPL policy?
This procedure is not only simple, but also free. To restore a previously purchased MTPL policy, you need to contact any office of the insurance company with which you entered into an agreement, providing previously restored documents for the car and your own passport. After verification, you will be issued a new policy similar to the lost one.
5. How to restore a diagnostic card?
It’s as simple as a compulsory motor liability insurance policy: you need to contact any organization authorized to carry out technical inspections. The issuance of a duplicate diagnostic card is regulated by the Federal Law “On technical inspection of vehicles and on amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation”, which contains paragraphs 7, 8 and 9 :
7. In the event of loss or damage to a diagnostic card during its validity period, a corresponding duplicate is issued by any technical inspection operator at the request of the owner of the vehicle or his representative based on the information contained in the unified automated technical inspection information system.
8. A duplicate of the diagnostic card is issued to the applicant on the day of application.
9. For the issuance of a duplicate diagnostic card, a fee is charged in the amount of one tenth of the maximum fee for conducting a technical inspection established by the authorized government body of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.
In general, obtaining a duplicate diagnostic card is not an urgent procedure. Thanks to the notorious “unified automated information system for technical inspection,” you will be given a copy of the MTPL policy without presenting this duplicate, and you do not need to present the card itself during normal operation.
6. How much does it cost to restore lost documents?
Let's list the cost of restoration in order.
The state fee for issuing a duplicate PTS is 800 rubles. Along with the PTS, you will need to receive a registration certificate, the state fee for issuing which costs another 500 rubles. That is, the loss of both documents will cost you 1,300 rubles.
If only the registration certificate is lost, you will also need to pay two state fees: 500 rubles for issuing a new certificate and 350 rubles for making changes to the PTS. Total – 850 rubles.
On payment of state fees, as in other cases, you can save 30% by completing the registration and payment procedure electronically through the State Services portal . In this case, the fee for issuing a PTS will be 560 rubles instead of 800, for issuing a vehicle registration certificate - 350 rubles instead of 500, and for making changes to the PTS - 245 rubles instead of 350.
The cost of a duplicate diagnostic card is a little more vague: as we remember, by law it is set “in the amount of one tenth of the maximum fee for conducting a technical inspection established by the authorized government body of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.” That is, if the standard fee for passing a technical inspection in your region costs 500 rubles, then obtaining a duplicate will cost 50.
Well, restoring the MTPL policy, as we said, is a free procedure.
7. Other nuances
Speaking about the loss of documents for a car, it is worth mentioning two more important details. Firstly, if you have lost your documents, you do not have the right to drive a car: this is classified as “driving a vehicle by a driver who does not have registration documents for the vehicle” and is punishable not only by a warning or a fine of 500 rubles, but also by detention car and placing it in a special parking lot. Don’t take risks: call a tow truck and move the car to a safe parking spot while the documents are restored.
Secondly, if your documents were not lost, but stolen, then first of all you need to contact the police. Having received a document confirming your application, you will present it to the traffic police, however, in this case, the procedure for restoring documents may drag on until the criminal case initiated on the theft is closed.
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Terms and cost of passport renewal
The state duty for the restoration of PTS is 500 rubles. Separately, you will have to pay 350 rubles for a new number on the certificate, which is also issued again. The traffic police may also offer to change the old license plates of vehicles.
If the owner agrees, he will have to pay another 2 thousand rubles for such pleasure. It is important to note that when submitting an application for PTS restoration on the State Services website, a 30% discount is provided.
You can receive a new passport after an hour. However, in some cases you will have to wait up to 5 days if the employees are very busy. In the event that problems arise with the documents, the deadline for consideration of the application is shifted by one calendar month.
Car inspection during title restoration
When the owner applies to renew the vehicle’s passport, he not only brings documents, but also drives his car to a special parking lot. This is necessary for the inspector to inspect the vehicle.
An authorized employee conducts a thorough inspection of the machine. It is better to clean the car in advance to avoid any difficulties.
After the inspection, the inspector checks the license plates on the car with those indicated in the documents, fills out the required column in the application and signs. With this document you should go back to the window and wait for your passport.
How to restore a vehicle passport without the owner?
Sometimes situations arise when the owner himself cannot restore the document. In this case, the person who will submit the documents will need to provide a power of attorney, which is certified by a notary. The owner will have to do it himself.
In order for traffic police officers to accept the package of required documents along with this power of attorney, you need to indicate in it a paragraph that describes in detail the rights to such an action.
In addition, it should contain the following points:
- Owner information.
- Information about the person who is engaged in the restoration of the vehicle title.
- List of representative rights.
- Be sure to indicate whether reassignment is possible.
- Date of drawing up the power of attorney.
- Validity periods.
If the car was purchased from the state, then the vehicle passport can be restored under the purchase agreement. In this case, the PTS will simply need to be replaced. However, such an action requires another pact of documents.
Documents required for recovery
In the form proposed for completion, the applicant indicates personal data, residential address, as well as the numbers of some documents:
- passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation.
- Details of the lost license (you can find them out for free on the traffic police website).
- Driver card issued after completing training.
Important! Restoration of rights due to loss does not require the mandatory entry of medical certificate information about the state of health. It will only be needed if the driver’s condition changes or the license expires.
Restoring PTS in case of theft
What to do if a document is not just lost, but was stolen along with others? The algorithm of actions is as follows:
- Open a criminal case regarding the theft.
- Submit an application to the traffic police department, where the personal data of the applicant is indicated.
- Write an explanatory note indicating that the PTS was stolen.
- Receive a certificate of closure of the criminal case.
In this case, you will have to wait a little more than one week, but no more than 30 days. The period depends on when the certificate of closure of the theft case will be received.
In order to have such a certificate at all, you must first go to the police department. All this takes a lot of time and effort, so drivers often hide the fact that the document has been stolen.
Restoration of compulsory motor liability insurance
To obtain a duplicate policy, the driver must contact the company with which he entered into an agreement. To do this, he must personally appear at the nearest office and submit an application there in the form established by the insurer with a request to issue him a duplicate. Note that a duplicate is required not only if documents are lost: if the driver changes his last name or first name, he must also replace the policy.
The first time a duplicate is issued free of charge: the company is obliged to accompany the contract. But if the loss occurs a second or third time, and the driver has already exercised the right to free receipt, he will have to pay for the production of the document at prices set by the company.
What to do if restoration is denied?
Inspectorate employees do not have the right to refuse to issue a duplicate for no reason. It is important to know the reasons for the refusal in order to correct the situation.
If everything is normal, but the document is not restored, you can go to court. It rarely comes to this; most often, car enthusiasts simply try to cancel the refusal.
Reasons for refusal to issue PTS
- Prohibition of registration.
- An incomplete package of documents has been submitted or the stated information is not enough for consideration.
- There is no receipt for payment of the fee.
- Upon inspection of the car, it was discovered that it was unsafe.
- The documents are fake.
- The suspicion is that the vehicle has been stolen.
- The car is wanted.
Restoring a technical passport for a car
If among the documents that were stolen was a registration certificate, then the owner of the car needs to contact the MREO or MOTOTRER of the traffic police department where the car is registered.
The restoration process itself is similar to the registration procedure. The driver will need:
- Paid state duty.
- Available car.
Registration through State Services at the State Traffic Inspectorate to restore the vehicle title
To save your own time, you can submit documents and an application, as well as pay the state fee online on the State Services portal.
How to do it correctly:
- Register on the site.
- Login to your account.
- Select the service “Receiving STS, PTS to replace lost or unusable ones.”
- Fill out the application, indicating data from your passport, insurance, registration document, purchase agreement, certificate that the transport is safe.
- Make an appointment with the inspection.
- After submitting the application, you need to pay the fee, save the receipt and subsequently print it.
At the specified time, you need to come to the department, give the original documents, and receive the PTS.
It is important to note that when registering a passport on the website, there is a 30% discount on the state fee.
Losing documents is always unpleasant. However, they need to be restored in time so that scammers do not have time to take advantage of them. It’s worth finding out in advance what documents are needed when submitting an application, how much the fee costs, what the restoration period is, in order to save your own time and not go to the traffic police department just like that.
In case of theft, you need to visit the police station in advance, they will issue a certificate of opening a criminal case. It is attached to the application. If restoration is denied, you need to find out the reason and correct the shortcomings. In the case where this helped her, and the owner of the car is confident that he is right, he needs to go to court.
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How to restore a document through State Services
Citizens who have a confirmed account on the state portal of State Services can fill out the appropriate application online. Scanned copies of available documents are attached to the application.
The electronically signed application is automatically forwarded to the required traffic police department. A duplicate PTS is prepared without the presence of the car owner. The applicant will be informed about the time of receipt of the car passport by email.
The State Services website suggests checking the MTPL policy in advance. If the STS is specified as the main document in the policy, after replacing the documents, the car owner will have to contact the insurance company. Due to the fact that a new vehicle registration certificate is issued along with a duplicate PTS, an insurance company employee must enter a new STS number into the MTPL policy.
If the policy specifies the PTS as the main document, there is no need to contact the insurance company. The passport number will not change, which means there is no need to make adjustments to the data in the MTPL.
