How to register a motorcycle without documents: legal norms, legal advice

July 30, 2019
Automobile law
Oksana Yatskevich

How to register a motorcycle without documents? A similar question often arises among modern drivers and car owners. Lack of transport papers can arise under different circumstances. And it doesn’t matter what kind of vehicle we are talking about - a car, a truck or a motorcycle. In any case, a person will have to follow a certain procedure to register a vehicle. And the advice on registering cars will be the same for all cases. Next, we will try to study all possible scenarios. In addition, the guidelines provided will be considered universal. They, as stated, can be used for any transport. The only difference is the cost of registration actions, but we’ll talk about that later.

The legislative framework

How to register a motorcycle without documents? This is a rather difficult question. The point is that a lot depends on the circumstances.

According to the law, the absence of papers on a car is an obstacle to registration actions. If the applicant does not have some certificates, he will either have to forget about registering this or that vehicle, or be puzzled by the restoration of driving certificates.

Accordingly, without documentation it is pointless to think about bringing an idea to life. Therefore, we will next try to find out how to obtain certain papers for a motorcycle, as well as how registration actions are carried out.

What documents are required for registration?

To complete this procedure you will need:

statement;
identification documents (preferably a passport);
documents for motorcycle ownership and license plates (if any);
OSAGO policy;
"Transit" signs for motorcycles imported into the Russian Federation.

If a citizen of the Russian Federation does not have permanent registration, you must provide a document confirming registration at your place of residence

To apply, you must fill out the appropriate form. It can be pre-downloaded from the traffic police website. If the owner of a new motorcycle remembered about the application only when submitting it, then he will have to look for help, for example, a company that, for a certain financial reward, will print out the form and help fill it out.

If a Russian citizen does not have permanent registration, you must provide a document confirming registration at your place of residence.

What should the applicant have?

How to register a motorcycle without documents? No way. First of all, a person will have to restore car certificates in the established forms. The main thing is to know how to behave. Unfortunately, the corresponding task is not always easy to implement.

What statements should the true owner of a car or motorcycle have? Usually this:

STS;
PTS;
car insurance policy;
title paper.

Until the vehicle is registered with the authorized bodies, the owner of the car will not have a registration certificate. In the case of buying a used motorcycle, a person will have to take all the certificates listed above for further registration. But it happens that there are no such extracts. What to do?

When and who needs to register a motorcycle with the traffic police

The new owner or his representative must register the two-wheeled vehicle with a power of attorney certified by a notary.

The countdown of the registration period does not depend on the place where the bike was purchased:

In Russia – 10 days from the moment of concluding the contract or receiving a receipt from the store.
Brought from abroad - 10 days from the date of receipt of customs documents.

All models of motor vehicles with a power exceeding 50 horsepower are subject to mandatory registration.

Pit bikes and motocross motorcycles do not require registration. They are not adapted to traffic conditions on public roads due to the lack of rear-view mirrors and turning lights. Having spotted such a vehicle in the city, traffic police officers can seize it and send it to the impound lot.

The exception is certain types of crossbikes, which can still be registered and ridden on public roads. These are supermoto and enduro motorcycles.

Also read: Is it possible to return a car to a car dealership: how and when to do it

Options for solving the problem

Is it possible to get documents for a motorcycle? Yes, but sometimes you have to try hard to do it.

What life situations do you encounter in practice? Here are the most common scenarios:

the car belongs to the applicant;
Legally, the motorcycle does not belong to the applicant, but it is known whose vehicle it is;
It is unclear whose vehicle they plan to register for each person.

Accordingly, further we will try to consider all the listed situations. Unfortunately, the latter arrangement causes a lot of problems in practice. And it is in this case that it is often not possible to obtain vehicle registration.

Legally owned by someone else

How to register a motorcycle without documents? The answer to this question directly depends on the specific situation. The only thing we can say with certainty is that, first of all, a person will have to restore their driving certificates. Without them, registration with the authorized bodies will not be carried out. Refusal to register will be considered completely legal and justified.

Let us assume that the motorcycle legally belongs to the citizen-applicant. In this case, restoring auto certificates will cause the least amount of problems. You just have to find out which extracts are missing.

At the moment, the following components may be missing:

document on ownership of movable property;
registration certificate;
car insurance policy.

First, let's look at the process of restoring title paper. As a rule, this is the basis for updating the technical passport of a motorcycle.

To restore the corresponding document, a citizen simply needs to take with him his passport and the extracts available for the motorcycle, and then contact a notary office. To the one where the transaction for registration of property rights was carried out. Or you can contact the motorcycle seller. The relevant persons must have copies of title documents. Let's say, purchase and sale agreements. They will make another copy of the statement, then certify it and give it to the applicant.

It sounds simple, but in reality certain difficulties often arise. As practice shows, it is easiest for citizens to restore their transport title deeds. You will have to put a lot of effort into the rest of the documentation.

We restore the registration certificate if the vehicle belongs to the applicant

How to register a motorcycle without a title? There is no way to do this. The thing is that a technical passport is the main transport certificate, which reflects the technical parameters of a movable object, as well as information about the owners of the property. It is one of the mandatory extracts for registration actions.

As already mentioned, the owner of the car may not have a vehicle registration certificate. In this case, it is recommended to proceed as follows:

Report the loss or theft of your PTS to the police. You will need to have your ID with you at this time.
Contact the dealership or the traffic police department with available vehicle statements. It is enough to have a title document, as well as a civil passport.
Request PTS from the relevant authority.
Pay for the production of such a document.
Receive a registration certificate for a motorcycle or car at the agreed time.

As a rule, if the title is restored, the citizen will immediately register the car. Accordingly, in the course of the actions taken, the person will also be given an STS. It will be issued even if the applicant has the appropriate documentation. This is due to the fact that, according to the law, changing the PTS entails a mandatory adjustment of the certificate of registration with the traffic police.

Registration procedure

The registration procedure can be divided into 2 stages:

Preparation for the procedure;
Registration.

During preparation, the owner needs to collect all documents, in particular, obtain MTPL insurance and undergo a technical inspection.

In order to register a motorcycle, the owner needs to submit all documents to the traffic police department, regardless of the place of registration. The vehicle must be taken there for inspection.

After handing over the documents to the authorized person, you must go to a special viewing platform, where the inspector will inspect the motorcycle and check the frame number with the data specified in the documents.

Upon completion of the procedure, the owner will be issued a state license. number and certificate.

No OSAGO

Registering a motorcycle without a document is an unrealistic task. The point is that such a possibility is not provided for by the current legislation of the Russian Federation. This means that you will have to think about restoring the documentation. Without appropriate manipulations, registration actions will not be carried out in order to ensure property security.

Sometimes citizens do not have a car insurance policy. It's easy to restore or order. It is enough to contact the insurance company with a passport, PTS and title paper for a movable object. After paying for the policy and insurance services, you can receive the corresponding statement in your hands.

Is it possible to restore documents if lost?

If you have lost your documents (no matter what happened to them - they were lost, stolen, burned/drowned, etc.), they can be restored. The main thing is to write in the application that you lost them.

When documents are stolen, one often wants the criminal to receive a well-deserved punishment, which, it would seem, can be achieved by contacting the police. But this is most often unsuccessful. By contacting the police station with a similar case, you will most likely add a new “penalty” to the employees, and a bunch of paperwork for yourself with various protocols. But the documents never came back.

If you know that documents have definitely been stolen and have a guess about the approximate location of the crime, look for them at the nearest trash cans or urns. Or post an ad with a reward for anyone who finds and returns the document.

Does not legally belong, but the owner is known

Is it possible to register a motorcycle without documents? Absolutely not. To register with the authorized bodies, a person must have a certain package of certificates. This is a completely legal requirement.

The next scenario is a situation where a citizen does not legally own the vehicle, but knows who owns the vehicle. Did someone buy a motorcycle without documents? How to make them?

There are several options. Namely:

personally contact the owner and make title documents;
restore car certificates by proxy;
use postal services to prepare documents for the car and communicate with the owner of the vehicle.

Next, we will try to consider all of the above situations. In practice they cause a lot of problems. And therefore it is not recommended to buy a vehicle without documents. This is quite a risky step.

Registration of a title document

How to register a motorcycle without documents? It was said earlier that this is a useless undertaking. This means it’s worth thinking about issuing car certificates.

It happens that legally the vehicle does not belong to the person who wants to register the car. In this case, you need to think about registering the fact of transfer of ownership rights to movable property.

For example, you can use the following instruction:

Find the “legal” owner of a motorcycle or other vehicle.
Agree on a particular transaction.
Collect documents for the relevant procedure.
Draw up an agreement with a notary on the transfer of rights to a motorcycle in one way or another.

After this, the PTS, STS, as well as the car insurance policy are transferred to the potential registrar. In addition, he will have a title document in his hands. It will be used in the future by the traffic police.

Quite often, people enter into purchase and sale agreements or deeds of gift, but with the unspoken transfer of money for transport. There is nothing difficult or incomprehensible in the corresponding operations.

Important: to conduct a legally significant transaction, the presence of both parties in the notary’s office is necessary.

Complete absence of documents - case No. 2

How to register a motorcycle without documents? The most difficult situation is considered to be in which the citizen has never had the appropriate certificates for the vehicle.

For example, sometimes friends and acquaintances give old vehicles to their loved ones. Suppose a friend decided to give his old friend his grandfather’s motorcycle, which had been sitting in the garage for several decades. Most likely, there will be no documents for such transport. But there is still a way out!

How to register a motorcycle without documents? A person who decides to give away movable property must restore certificates for the vehicle. To do this, you will have to prove that the object belonged to a relative of the person concerned, that the motorcycle is an inheritance.

It is recommended to carry out the procedure through a judicial authority. After a citizen proves ownership of a motorcycle, he will be able to obtain documents for it from the traffic police. And only then carry out the official procedure of transferring ownership of the vehicle to your friend or other person. For example, by donation.

The documents received in the course of the actions taken are the basis for registration actions with the traffic police. The citizen will simply need to register the motorcycle in his name. If you have a PTS, STS and a title document for the vehicle, this task will cause a minimum of hassle.

Restoration of title by owner

How to register a motorcycle without documents? The answer to this question is simple - not at all. It will not be possible to cope with the task until the citizen issues a car certificate.

If the vehicle does not legally belong to the applicant, he will have to contact the owner of the motorcycle for documents. Does the person concerned also lack them?

In this case, you can ask the owner to restore the documentation himself, and then sign a title agreement. Until this moment, there is no point in thinking about how to register a motorcycle without a title.

The second scenario is the independent restoration of transport documentation with the subsequent issuance of title certificates. In such circumstances, the instructions listed above must be followed. Only first you will have to issue a power of attorney for the potential owner of the car. Someone who purchased a vehicle without documents.

Penalties

Untimely registration of motor vehicles (delay of 10 days established by law) leads to a fine of up to 2,000 rubles. The statute of limitations for this violation is 2 months.

For driving an unregistered motorcycle, the driver is punished:

for a primary violation – a fine of up to 800 rubles;
for the second time the amount will be 5,000 rubles;
In case of regular disobedience, the driver may be deprived of his driving license for 4 months.

Registering a motorbike is a standard procedure that guarantees the owner compliance with the law. Registration is not difficult; you just need to spend a little time collecting documents and preparing equipment.

If you can't come

Need paperwork for a motorcycle? Without documents of the established form, it will not be possible to register a vehicle. It happens that a citizen cannot personally contact the owner of movable property. How to proceed? How to register a motorcycle without documents?

You can cope with the tasks through mail with receipt notifications. First, the citizen asks for a power of attorney from the owner of the car, then restores the missing car certificates, after which he himself prepares a purchase and sale agreement or other agreement on the transfer of rights to a movable object. Next, you need to send the corresponding statement for signature, and then receive it in your hands. The completed title document (a copy with notarization) will have to be sent to the former owner of the motorcycle. Otherwise, the transaction will be declared invalid.

Registration of a homemade or converted motorcycle

Before registering a homemade or converted motorcycle, the owner needs to go through the certification procedure at the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation FSUE NAMI.

To do this, he fills out an inventor’s questionnaire, where he indicates:

Your personal data: full name and address;
Vehicle name;
Engine model and number;
Chassis and body number (if any);
Engine power and displacement;
Minimum and maximum weight;
The maximum permissible weight of transported cargo.

In addition to the certification form, you must provide the motorcycle itself, photographs of the vehicle (us will tell you how many photographs are needed for the study) and a photocopy of the inventor’s passport. Based on the results of the procedure, the vehicle is assigned an identification number.

Next, the inventor should contact an accredited research laboratory, which will check whether the motorcycle meets all safety requirements and regulations. The following documents are provided to the laboratory:

Inventor's passport;
Technical characteristics of the vehicle;
A document confirming receipt of an identification number;
Application from the owner.

If all requirements are met, the owner of the motorcycle is issued a Design Safety Certificate. This document must be presented to the traffic police for registration.

Further steps for registering a homemade motorcycle are no different from those described above.

It's unclear whose

Registering a motorcycle without documents is a futile task. It also happens that there is a vehicle, but its owner is unknown.

For example, a citizen guesses who owns a motorcycle. Let's assume the owner is dead. In this case, thinking about how to register a motorcycle without documents is also useless. You will have to contact government authorities and then prove the fact that the owner of the car has no heirs. After this, as a rule, the movable property is purchased from the state. It is this that will restore the title and other papers for the motorcycle.

Another very confusing situation is the transfer of a vehicle to the use of a person by the heir of the car, who also does not have papers for the movable object. Let's say a friend gave away his grandfather's old motorcycle. How to proceed?

First, you will have to agree with your friend on the preparation of title papers and vehicle statements for the object. Only after this is it possible to formalize the transfer of ownership rights. For example, by donation. And only under such circumstances will it be possible to successfully register a car.

Documents for a motocross motorcycle

There are clear recommendations on what documents the owner of a motocross motorcycle should have. This vehicle is considered suitable only for driving on a special track (in other words, it is only suitable for competitions). It does not have turn signals, and the tires are also not suitable for driving on the road. Accordingly, traffic police officers will not require a PTS from the owner. If you bought a motorcycle as sports equipment, you need the following documents to confirm ownership:

STS or DCT;
certificate-invoice or check with the seller's stamp.

In addition to them, a technical passport issued by the MFR (Motorcycle Federation of Russia) may be useful.

Important! A motocross motorcycle must be transported in a car trailer or using a tow truck. You cannot drive it on the highway.

Registration of a motorcycle vehicle is a procedure that can cause difficulties for legally unskilled citizens. To avoid unplanned waste of time and money, we recommend contacting experienced auto lawyers in advance.

You can find out more information about what documents are needed to register a moped with an engine capacity of up to 50 cc from the following video:

Authorized Services

How to register a motorcycle? Without documents this is impossible. And we have already found out how auto certificates are restored. By following these tips, you can quickly achieve success.

Now let's look at the vehicle registration process. It is carried out in one of the authorized bodies. Namely:

MFC;
traffic police;
traffic police;
MREO.

You need to choose a service at the place of registration of the applicant. Otherwise, the operation will be denied, and quite legally.

If desired, you can register the vehicle through GosGosGosuslug. If a person has an activated account, he can act like this:

Find it in the catalog of options on “State Vehicle Registration”.
Select the option required by the citizen.
Fill out the electronic form following the instructions.
Submit your application for processing.
Pay the transaction fee.
Contact the authorized service with pre-prepared statements.

At this stage you can finish. The traffic police inspector will inspect the vehicle and issue registration certificates.

Never had documents - situation No. 3

How to register a motorcycle sidecar without documents? Is it possible to register a vehicle if there are no certificates for it? Yes, but you have to try.

In Russia, citizens can take advantage of the so-called acquisition right. If a person uses ownerless property for a certain period of time (15 years for real estate, 5 years for movable objects), he can, in court, recognize his ownership of it.

To achieve the corresponding result, you will need:

Prepare a passport and also find witnesses who can confirm the fact of use of the property.
Draw up and submit a claim to the arbitration court for recognition of ownership rights to the motorcycle.
Participate in the meeting and receive a decision from the judicial authority.

Now what? Based on a court decision, the traffic police will issue the citizen with documents for the vehicle, and will also register a motorcycle, trailer or other movable property on it.

Price

How to get a title for a motorcycle without documents? It is necessary to prove the fact of ownership of the property and attach certificates of loss of extracts.

How much do registration actions cost in Russia? It is proposed to focus on the following duties:

800 rubles - new PTS;
350 rubles - correction of the technical passport;
1,500 rubles - license plates for motorcycles and trailers;
2,000 rubles - license plate;
500 rubles - issuance of STS.

Moreover, if you pay through Gosuslugi, you can reduce the amount of duties by 30%. Everyone is able to exercise this right.

How to register a motorcycle without documents? The answer to this question will no longer put a person in an awkward position. Unfortunately, such an operation is not always carried out quickly and without hassle.

Registration process

The registration procedure consists of several stages:

Submission of documents.
Inspection of the motorcycle by an inspector on site.
Obtaining a registration certificate and numbers.

Collecting a basic package of documents is not difficult. The exception is the MTPL policy. If the motorcycle is new, i.e. issued no more than 3 years ago, you do not need to undergo a technical inspection to obtain a policy. Otherwise, the insurance company will require the owner to conduct diagnostics.

The cost of verification in 2021 is 200 rubles. (in the absence of a registration certificate, the motorcycle must be transported for diagnostics by a tow truck). To apply for the MTPL policy itself, you do not need to bring the motorcycle to a transport company: the technical inspection data is entered into a single electronic database.

Documents can be submitted by the owner in person at any traffic police department or by appointment through the State Services portal. If the vehicle is not registered by the owner himself, a power of attorney will be required.

For inspection by an inspector, the motorcycle must be delivered to the traffic police department. This must be done in a trailer/body or with the help of a tow truck.

At the site, the inspector checks:

actual VIN numbers and compares them with the data in the vehicle title;
technical condition: operation of turning lights and brake system.

At the inspection site, the owner will not need to get behind the wheel: the inspector will carry out all the necessary actions himself. The procedure takes from a few minutes to half an hour.

After submitting documents and inspection by an inspector, a certificate is issued and license plates are issued. This stage usually takes less than an hour. The owner has the right to ride a motorcycle without the danger of breaking the rules from the moment the license plates are installed on the vehicle.

Registration data is entered into a single electronic database and is used by traffic police inspectors during road inspections.

Average cost of passing a car inspection