SB 595

Mechanics and storage liens; vehicle data. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles, when searching for owner or lienholder information for the enforcement of a mechanics or storage lien against a vehicle titled in another jurisdiction, to provide the bailee with the requested information ascertained from a nationally recognized motor vehicle title database rather than contacting such jurisdiction, provided such jurisdiction and the Commonwealth have both entered into agreements with such database. The bill also expands the circumstances under which the Department is not required to notify the owner or lienholder of a vehicle titled in another jurisdiction that such request for information was received to include when the other jurisdiction fails to respond to the request for information.