You must notify the DMV within 5 days if you:
- Sell or Transfer your vehicle ✓
- re cited for a traffic violation
- Paint your vehicle of a different color
Answer: A. Sell or Transfer your vehicle
You must notify the DMV within 5 days if you sell or transfer your vehicle.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says that when you sell a vehicle, you must tell the DMV within five days by completing a Notice of Transfer and Release of Liability. That notice lets the DMV know the vehicle is no longer yours. The five-day notice rule in the passage is tied to selling, so the choice about selling or transferring your vehicle is the one that fits. The passage does not set a five-day DMV notification rule for a traffic citation or for repainting a vehicle.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. re cited for a traffic violation — A traffic citation is not the event the handbook ties to a five-day DMV notification; the five-day rule in the passage is for selling a vehicle.
- C. Paint your vehicle of a different color — The handbook passage does not list repainting a vehicle a different color as something that triggers a five-day DMV notification.
Remember it
Link the five-day clock in your mind to selling: Notice of Transfer and Release of Liability.