Texas Comptroller Manual of Accounts - Fiscal 2025
Revenue Object 3012 – Motor Vehicle Certificates – Salvage, Non-Repairable, Rebuilt Titles

The application fee for obtaining a salvage, non-repairable or rebuilt salvage certificate of title is $8. Additional application fee for a regular certificate of title for a salvage vehicle. A rebuilder fee is $65.

At time of application for certificate of title.

Previously collected under revenue object 3023 until FY2005.

Codified by S.B. 898, 75th Leg., R.S.

Formerly, the department prescribed a fee either the lesser of $200 or actual cost for conducting inspections and providing written statements for deposit to General Revenue Fund (No. 0001). This was deleted by H.B. 3588, 78th Leg., R.S.

H.B. 3588, 78th Leg., R.S. added $13 application fee and renumbered Transportation Code, Sec. 501.0922 and 501.0923 as sec. 501.100.

Program transferred from the Department of Public Safety to the Department of Motor Vehicles by H.B. 3097, 81st Leg., R.S.

H.B. 2357, 82nd Leg., R.S. removed $13 fee amount for title.

Before H.B. 2202, 83rd Leg., R.S., the $8 fee was deposited to State Highway Fund (No. 0006). H.B. 2202, 83rd Leg., R.S. changed deposit of $8 fee from State Highway Fund (0006) to new Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Fund. New fund was not exempted in funds consolidation bill (H.B. 6) and not created. Therefore, revenue amounts were deposited to General Revenue (0001).

S.B. 1512, 84th Leg., R.S. recreated the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Fund and it was exempted by H.B. 6, 84th Leg., R.S. Deposit of $8 fee changed from General Revenue to Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Fund (0010). Effective 9/1/16.