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Statutes > Alabama > Title32 > Chapter20 > 32-20-31Section 32-20-31
(Effective January 1, 2010) Transfer of interest by dealer.
(a) If a dealer buys a manufactured home and holds it for resale and procures the certificate of title from the owner or the lienholder he or she need not send the certificate to the department but, upon transferring the manufactured home to another person other than by the creation of a security interest, shall promptly execute the assignment and warranty of title by a dealer, showing the names and addresses of the transferee and of any lienholder holding a security interest created or reserved at the time of the resale and the date of his or her security agreement, in the spaces provided therefor on the certificate or as the department prescribes, and mail or deliver the certificate to a designated agent with the transferee's application for a new certificate.
(b) Every dealer shall maintain for five years a record in the form the department prescribes of every manufactured home bought, sold, or exchanged by him or her or received by him or her for sale or exchange, which shall be open to inspection by representatives of the department and law-enforcement officers during reasonable business hours.
(Act 2009-746, §4.)