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Duplicate vehicle title fee and processing time by state

What it costs and how long it takes to replace a lost, stolen or destroyed vehicle title, state by state, sourced from each state's own DMV/DOR/county-clerk page rather than a third-party blog. Every state runs its own process and the numbers genuinely differ ($14 in Tennessee, $20/$35 in-state/out-of-state in Nevada) and change without notice, and third-party blogs disagree with each other on the same state's fee (multiple sites quoted $20, $23 and $28 for the same California fee during initial research) with no way for a reader to tell which is current. Nobody maintains a comprehensive, sourced, all-50-state version of this for free — the closest things found are ad-supported blog aggregators repeating stale or inconsistent numbers, and paid title-service companies whose business is exactly this friction. Covers 50 of 51 jurisdictions (50 states plus DC); Massachusetts is omitted because its fee is set administratively and the schedule is on a host that blocks automated fetching, so no citable figure exists -- see sources.txt. Answers 'how much to replace a lost car title in [state]', 'how long does a duplicate title take in [state]', and whether expedited processing is offered and at what extra fee.

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The data

StateDuplicate title feeStandard processing timeExpedited feeFee note
Alabama$15.00
Alaska$15
Arizona$4.00up to six weeks
Arkansas$10.00a minimum of three weeks
California$28
Colorado$8.20
Connecticut$25.00within 20 business days
Delaware$50.00
District of Columbia$30.00
Florida$75.25$10.00Add $2.50 service and handling fee when paper title will be printed.
Georgia$8.00
Hawaii$10.00
Idaho$14.00$26.00
Illinois$50$30
Indiana$15.00$25add $25 for a speed title
Iowa$35.00
Kansas$10
Kentucky$6.00plus the cost of a notary
Louisiana$68.50
Maine$33.005-8 business days$10.00
Maryland$40
Michigan$1514 days$20 for same-day instant title
Minnesota$7.25Total fees due when mailing to DVS are $21.50
Mississippi$9.00
Missouri$8.50a $9 processing fee
Montana$10.30
Nebraska$14.00
Nevada$20.00approximately 2-3 weekssent to a Nevada address
New Hampshire$35effective January 1, 2026
New Jersey$60
New Mexico$5.00
New Yorktwenty dollars
North Carolina$25.50
North Dakota$5
OhioEighteen dollarsor twenty-three dollars if a board of county commissioners adopts a resolution authorizing the increased fee for that county
Oklahoma$11additional $1.66 mail fee may apply when mailing in your form
Oregon$101combined rating of 0 – 19 MPG
Pennsylvania$72.00
Rhode Island$53.50
South Carolinafifteen dollars
South Dakota$10
Tennessee$14additional county fees may apply
Texas$2mail-in fee
Utah$6.00
Vermont$42.00
Virginia$15.00with no changes
Washington$39.504-6 weeks
West Virginia$15.00
Wisconsin$20
Wyoming$15.00

Where this came from

Every record above links the page it was taken from and quotes the sentence that states it. These are the 50 sources this dataset was assembled from.

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From your own code

Same records, same quotes, without scraping the page: refsource is on PyPI and npm. Each value comes back carrying the URL it was read from and the sentence on that page that states it — .source and .quote sit on the value itself rather than in a side channel, so the checking step is available instead of skipped.

pip install refsource
refsource lookup duplicate-vehicle-title-fee-by-state state=Alabama

npx -y refsource lookup duplicate-vehicle-title-fee-by-state state=Alabama

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Licence. Fees and processing times are government-published facts, not copyrightable. Cited with attribution and a source_quote from each state's own DMV/DOR/county-clerk page; no page is reproduced beyond the fee figures.