Application and notice
An Abandoned Vehicle Application starts the process. MVD sends notice to the owner, lien holder and other interested parties, then a 30-day reclaim window applies before ownership may transfer if the vehicle is not claimed.
Arizona supply
Arizona abandoned vehicle intake and supply context
This page keeps the public explanation honest. It explains the process, the timing and why the separate ingestion package exists.
Arizona MVD explains the process publicly, but the pages reviewed for this build do not publish one clean statewide abandoned-vehicle count. Dev003 therefore includes a separate ingestion package to build internal counts from exported records instead of pretending that count is already public.
Electronic filing
Towing companies in Arizona file Abandoned Vehicle Reports electronically. That makes abandoned-vehicle reporting a real data source for ingestion once records are exported lawfully.
Inspection and title path
Inspection is required when taking possession through the abandoned-vehicle process. A restored salvage vehicle in Arizona is a previously salvage-titled vehicle that has been repaired or restored and inspected for roadworthiness.
Seller protection
Arizona advises prior owners to file a Sold Notice within 10 calendar days of a sale or transfer so the old owner is not still tied to a vehicle later found abandoned.
Why the ingestion package exists
Public process pages explain what the system does. The separate package turns exported records into normalized JSON, tracks notice windows and supports lawful supply analysis without claiming a public statewide count that was not found on the reviewed ADOT pages.