When registering your car, does the owner of the car have to be the one to register it?

Someone else with all the correct documentation can do it.

As long as the owner signs the documents required.

When you buy a new car, the dealer often does it (they charge for it, but it does save time on behalf of the new owner).

No. Auto registration (in the USA, and in any of the several states where I’ve registered vehicles) is a task that is often performed by employees and other associates of the owner.

Nope. My car is actually in my father’s name still (and thus registered in his name) and I just had to show ID and the signed papers, pay the fee, and I got my registration.

Someone else can do it. It’s how you can register a car that a bank owns the title to until you pay it off…

In Pennsylvania, all the owner had to do is sign the title and the purchaser does the rest, including paying the sales tax and registration.