How to fill out Alabama MVT 8-3

Three more assignment blocks on a separate sheet, for a licensed dealer who has run out of them on the certificate itself. It is in this section because private sellers find it, recognise the layout as the block on the back of their title, and reasonably assume it is the overflow page for anybody. It is not, and the form says so in its own second sentence: INDIVIDUALS or NON-LICENSED DEALERS CANNOT use this form to re-assign a certificate of title.

Written against MVT 8-3 (5/20), issued under Code of Ala. 1975, Section 32-8-45. If a buyer hands you this sheet and asks you to sign as the seller, stop. Either they are a licensed dealer and should be completing it themselves under their own licence number, or they are not, in which case the certificate they are holding has no assignment space left and the car cannot lawfully be sold to you or by you until somebody puts a title in their own name.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank MVT 8-3 from the revenue.alabama.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank MVT 8-3 — Dealer Reassignment Form PDF at revenue.alabama.gov · new tab

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual MVT 8-3, rendered from the PDF the Alabama Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division publishes and completed end to end: letterhead, every field, and the blocks at the foot.

Amber — you write it
Grey — not yours to fill
Numbered — explained below

The Alabama MVT 8-3 Dealer Reassignment Form with its first block completed by a licensed dealer: a title number, a vehicle identification number, a dealer licence number, a buyer and address, an odometer reading of 71528, a date of sale and signatures. — Only the first of the three blocks is completed, which is how the form is meant to be used - in successive order, each one valid only when full. Everything in it belongs to a dealer; the amber is here to show you what the block looks like, not to suggest you fill one in.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
Dealers only
Re-assignment supplement to
Tick State and write the state and title number, or tick C.O. or M.S.O. and name the original first dealer with their city and state.
Watch out: This is what ties a loose sheet to a particular certificate. Without it the form is not valid, and the heading says so in capitals across the page.
2
Dealers only
Vehicle identification number
The full VIN or serial number, once, at the head of the sheet.
Watch out: One VIN covers all three blocks below. A sheet whose VIN does not match the certificate it is stapled to is not a supplement to anything.
3
Dealers only
Selling dealer's state license no.
The Alabama dealer regulatory licence number of the dealership passing the car on.
Watch out: The line a private seller must never write on. Section 32-8-12 makes forging an assignment on a form the department prescribes a Class C felony, and this is such a form.
4
Dealers only
Buyer(s) and address
Printed name and address of whoever the vehicle is going to, under the warranty sentence.
Watch out: The warranty is real. I/We warrant this title means the dealer is standing behind the state of the certificate, not just recording a movement.
5
Dealers only
Odometer reading
The whole-mile figure, with the NO TENTHS marker beside it, and the two statement boxes left empty unless one applies.
Watch out: The caution printed between the reading and the boxes is the Department's own: READ CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU CHECK BLOCK. Statement 2 brands the vehicle permanently.
6
Dealers only
Date of sale
Month, day and year in three small fields at the end of the odometer row.
Watch out: Each block carries its own date, and they have to run forwards. A second reassignment dated before the first is the kind of thing the Department returns.
7
Dealers only
Signatures and printed names
Buyer signs and prints on the left, seller signs and prints on the right, in both rows.
Watch out: Four lanes, and all four are wanted. A signature with no printed name beside it is an incomplete reassignment.
8
The buyer fills this in
Lienholder to be recorded
The name and address of the buyer's first lienholder, or the word NONE.
Watch out: The heading carries the instruction in brackets - if none, state NONE. An empty line is not an answer, and it is the one line on this form a private buyer might be asked to complete.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Re-assignment Supplement to	A tick for a state and title number, or for a C.O. or M.S.O. with the name of the original first dealer and their city and state. It names the document this sheet is being stapled to.
Vehicle identification number (or serial number)	One line, at the head of the sheet, covering all three blocks below it.
Selling dealer's state license no.	The first line of every one of the three blocks, and the line a private person cannot complete. Each block opens with the same bullet: RE-ASSIGNMENT BY LICENSED DEALER.
The warranty sentence and the buyer	I/We warrant this title and certify that the vehicle described herein has been transferred to the following, then Buyer(s) and Address.
Odometer certification	The reading, marked NO TENTHS, with the caution READ CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU CHECK BLOCK beside it, then statement 1 - the mileage stated is in excess of its mechanical limits - and statement 2 - the odometer reading is not the Acutal Mileage - with WARNING - ODOMETER DISCREPANCY under them. The Department's own typo in statement 2 is printed on the form.
Date of sale	Three small fields, month, day and year, at the right-hand end of the odometer row.
Signatures and printed names	Signature(s) of buyer(s) and of seller(s) on one line, printed name(s) of each underneath. Four lanes, all four wanted.
Lienholder to be recorded and shown on new title	Name and address of the first lienholder, with the instruction if none, state NONE printed in the heading.
The felony notice at the foot	Section 32-8-12, Code of Ala. 1975 Provides: A person is guilty of a class C felony who, with fraudulent intent, alters or forges an assignment of a certificate of title, or an assignment or release of a security interest, on a certificate of title or a form the department prescribes.

What gets this one rejected

•A private seller's name on the selling dealer's licence line. There is nothing to write there unless you hold an Alabama dealer licence, and the felony notice at the foot of the sheet is about exactly this document.
•Using it because the certificate's own assignment was spoiled. That is what the MVT 5-7 correction affidavit is for; this sheet adds new blocks rather than fixing an old one.
•Sending it on its own. Printed across the head of the form: THIS FORM IS NOT VALID UNLESS ATTACHED TO TITLE THAT IT SUPPLEMENTS.
•Filling the blocks out of order. The instruction printed under the title is that each one runs in succession, and that a block counts for nothing until it has been completed in full.
•Correcting anything on it. The notice in the middle of the sheet reads ANY ALTERATION OR ERASURE VOIDS THE ASSIGNMENT and all assignments that follow - so one struck-out digit takes the blocks underneath with it.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•Whose form it is. Licensed motor vehicle dealers upon dealer transfers where all assignments on the certificate of title have been completed. Section 32-8-45 is the statute: a dealer buying for resale may pass the car on by assignment rather than titling it in the dealership's name.
•What a private seller does instead. Nothing. If the assignment block on your certificate has already been used, the vehicle has to be titled in your name before you can sell it - rule 810-5-75-.15(2) requires each owner other than a licensed dealer to obtain an Alabama title in the owner's name prior to transferring ownership.
•It is the same block, three times. Which is useful for one thing: it is the clearest published picture of what the assignment on the back of an Alabama certificate actually says, phrase for phrase, and the walkthrough on this site's certificate page is transcribed partly from it.

Every line here was read off MVT 8-3 (5/20) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Alabama Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division pages. This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ, theirs governs.

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How to fill out Alabama MVT 8-3

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Re-assignment supplement to

Vehicle identification number

Selling dealer's state license no.

Buyer(s) and address

Odometer reading

Date of sale

Signatures and printed names

Lienholder to be recorded

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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