How LienYard works
Trust in this product means one thing: every deadline and every letter traces to the statute. Here is the whole machine, in the open.
The statutory timeline we track
- First notice: due by day 5 after receipt for TX-titled vehicles, day 14 for out-of-state, never earlier than 24 hours after the vehicle arrives (Occ. Code §2303.151, §2303.152).
- Second notice: the day 15 to 20 window after the first notice mails or publishes (§2303.154).
- Law enforcement report: a conditional step, not a fixed-deadline clock. The facility reports the abandonment only if the law-enforcement agency with jurisdiction requires it, and the statute sets no reporting deadline (§2303.154(a); Tex. Transp. Code §683.031(c)). LienYard surfaces it as a checklist item gated on abandonment, never a countdown.
- Sale eligibility: after the statutory 30-day period that follows the second notice (§2303.157).
- Fees: the daily storage accrual rules, including the late-notice penalty on accrual, and the $50 per-vehicle notification cap (§2303.155).
Every clock on the board names its statute in place, and every clock stores the rule version it was computed under. When TDLR’s fee schedule moves or the legislature amends Chapter 2303, the rules are versioned, dated, and re-checked; each page shows when its rules were last checked.
If LienYard cannot compute a deadline, it stops
A guessed deadline is worse than no deadline. If a vehicle’s facts fall outside the rules we have encoded and verified, the board says so plainly and names the missing fact. It never silently guesses. Every clock also carries a “this deadline looks wrong” link; reports go straight to us and are treated as the most serious class of bug we can have.
How owner and lienholder records enter
You run your own owner and lienholder search, exactly as you do today, on your own account: TowLien or Auto Data Direct pay-as-you-go, or a mail-in Form VTR-275. Your authority to receive those records comes from your TDLR license (Tex. Transp. Code §730.007 names notice to owners of towed vehicles as a permitted use). You paste or type the result; LienYard prefills the fields and records who entered the record, when, and from which source. We process those records solely as your service provider, for your notices; they are never resold or displayed publicly. The clock never waits on the lookup: it starts when the vehicle does.
What LienYard automates, and what stays yours
- We automate: the deadline math, the §2303.153-complete letters, certified mailing with electronic return receipt at cost, the proof-of-mailing archive, the fee ledger with cap math, and the VTR-265-VSF and 130-U packet assembly.
- You own: the facts (receipt dates, vehicle data, the records you enter), signatures, any law-enforcement filing your situation requires, and the decision to mail or sell. Clocks compute from what you enter; the licensee remains responsible for their own process.
LienYard is a product of Harper AI, Inc. It is not affiliated with TDLR or TxDMV, it is not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. The letters and packets are your own statutory paperwork, executed with better tooling.