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If I have mislaid my plates but they have not been stolen, how do I register my vehicle?
If that was the scenario, you only was needed to bring a copy of form MV-78B to a DMV office and apply for a new set of plates, besides reinstatement of your registration.
That would have been easier. Oh, well. Look i need to know, there's this friend of mine whose car was stolen and he hadn't been issued his title, what he can do in that case?