Vehicle Registration & Titles

Yes, if you cancel your insurance on your vehicle and it has a current registration. Turn in your license plate to prevent your Driver License from being suspended. If a license plate is surrendered to a Tax Collector office, the information will be transmitted to the Division of Motorist Services to prevent a suspension on the owner’s Driver License. If you would like to keep your license plate, you must maintain the insurance on the vehicle until the purchaser comes into a Tax Collector office and transfers the title into their name. Once the title has been transferred out of the seller’s name the insurance may be cancelled.

Keep the top portion of the Certificate of Title that you are signing over. On back, record the name of person(s) who you are selling to, along with their Driver License number, date, and selling price. Bring to local office to have it recorded.

• Your Florida registration can be renewed 3 months prior to the expiration date.

Florida law requires insurance must be issued by a Florida agent with an insurance company licensed to do business in Florida. The law also requires $10,000 Personal Injury Protection and $10,000 Personal Damage Liability be carried as long as you have a valid Florida registration on a vehicle.

• An electronic title, or e-title, is proof of ownership for motor vehicle, motorcycle, mobile home, or vessel titles held in an electronic form by the Department. This electronic status gives you the same proof of ownership as a paper title. By maintaining the title electronically, the owner eliminates the possibility of losing the title and protects it from theft.

Upon the initial application for registration on a motor vehicle, a $225.00 initial registration fee may be imposed. This fee applies to private automobiles, motor homes, and trucks weighing less than 5,000 pounds. 
Section 320.072, Florida Statutes, requires a $225 Initial Registration Fee be collected when the owner does not have a license plate to transfer to a newly acquired vehicle unless they are exempt. If you have a plate to transfer or meet other initial registration fee exemption requirements, you must complete an Initial Registration Fee Exemption Affidavit.

Every effort is made to ensure a renewal notice is sent to the owner or registrant of all motor vehicles registered in Hernando County. If you did not receive a courtesy reminder notice in the mail, you may go to renew your registration(s):

In Person: You may visit our Main Office or Spring Hill Branch office. Please bring the following items:

The delinquent registration fee shall be imposed on the 11th day of the month following the renewal month. Example: If a registration expires in February, a delinquent fee will be assessed beginning March 11th. 
*Please remember that although the late fee will not be assessed until this date, for law
enforcement purposes, the registration is expired

Visit Florida's Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles website https://www.flhsmv.gov/military/

You can go to titlecheck.us.
This site allows you to search for federal vehicle title, salvage and total loss information quickly and affordably with National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) title check reports from Auto Data Direct. 

Section 320.06(1) (b), Florida Statutes, requires 10-year replacement of all license plates. Replacement is necessary to ensure visibility for law enforcement purposes.

Florida law requires that all business owned trucks over 5,000 lbs., cargo vans over 5,000 lbs. and privately owned trucks with a GVW over 8,000 lbs. expire December 31st . The registered owner is also required to declare a gross vehicle weight (GVW). Registration fees are determined by the gross vehicle weight.