You must notify the DMV within five days if you:
- Sell or transfer your vehicle. ✓
- Fail a smog test.
- Get a new prescription for lenses or contacts.
Answer: A. Sell or transfer your vehicle.
You must notify the DMV within five days when you sell or transfer your vehicle.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's registration section says that after selling a vehicle, the seller must tell the DMV within five days by filing a Notice of Transfer and Release of Liability. That is the only five-day notification rule described in the passage. Failing a smog test and getting a new lens or contact prescription are not listed there as events requiring this notice.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Fail a smog test. — Failing a smog test is not the event described in this passage; the registration section mentions emission controls as a registration requirement, not a five-day notification.
- C. Get a new prescription for lenses or contacts. — A new prescription for lenses or contacts is not mentioned in this passage as something you report to the DMV within five days.
Remember it
Think sale, not smog or spectacles: a sold vehicle triggers the five-day notice.