DMV launches online system to verify vehicle registration
As part of an initiative to improve customer service technology and online information
availability, the Department of Motor Vehicles now offers customers a website that allows them to check if a vehicle is validly registered in the state.
“The DMV is moving towards more online, e-government transactions that will be more efficient for customers,” said DMV Commissioner Robert M. Ward. The site, www.ct.gov/dmv/verifyreg, comes with the DMV’s elimination of vehicle registration stickers three weeks ago.
“The verification system is part of the DMV’s effort to save taxpayer money and modernize the vehicle registration renewal process,” continued Ward.
This service will also help customers check on whether the DMV has processed their registration renewal paperwork.
Eliminating the stickers will save about $400,000 per year, an important savings during a time when the state faces a multi-billion-dollar deficit.
No personal information, such as names and addresses, will be disclosed by the vehicle registration website in the online look-up.
The check can be run on any Connecticut marker plate and is designed to be as easy as possible. The user enters the vehicle type, such as passenger, commercial, etc., and the marker plate letters and/or numbers into a search field.
After submitting the information, the site will give an expiration date for the plate or the site will notify the user if the information entered is incorrect or there’s a problem with the license plate.
“This is another step in making our agency a 21st-century DMV,” the Commissioner added. The system was designed by the state Department of Information Technology.
Online registration verification will join DMV’s web-based registration renewal program, which has at- tracted more than 400,000 users since the state began to offer it in 2007. In another joint project with DOIT, the DMV began offering an internet registration renewal service for customers who have passenger registrations and do not have any delinquent property taxes or parking tickets.
They must also have the state-required insurance coverage and completed emissions testing for their vehicles. Those with suspended registrations are not renewed.
“I would like to thank DOIT for its hard work in developing this new customer service. Partnerships like ours with DOIT bring value that benefits customers,” the Commissioner said.
