How to fill out Alaska Bill of Sale

Alaska publishes no bill-of-sale form for cars, and a bill of sale moves no titled vehicle here - the Division's sentence is five words long: a Bill of Sale is not valid for ownership transfer. Having said that, it recommends taking one anyway and then lists exactly what belongs on it, which is unusual enough to be worth following to the letter. There is one class of vehicle where a bill of sale genuinely is the transfer: Alaska titles no ATVs and no snowmachines, and those change hands on paper like this plus a decal.

Written against Bill of Sale (there is no form), issued under no statute requires one for a titled vehicle; the Division recommends it on its own selling page and lists what it should contain. Do not let a bill of sale stand in for a released title. Alaska bars everyone except licensed dealers from reassigning a certificate, so a buyer holding only your receipt cannot sell the vehicle on, cannot register it, and will eventually be back at your door asking for a signature you should have given at the time. The one exception is the off-highway vehicle, which has no certificate to release.

There is no download link for the Bill of Sale here because there is not one anywhere - the Alaska DMV does not publish it. The card below explains where it does come from.

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Why there is no completed Bill of Sale here

There is no form to show filled in: Alaska publishes no bill-of-sale document for vehicles at all, and the Division simply lists in prose what a bill of sale should contain. Any sheet of paper carrying those items is a complete Alaska bill of sale, which is why the field list on this page is the list rather than a picture.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
The serial number and description of the vehicle	First on the Division's own list. Serial number is the Division's word for the vehicle identification number - it is the label used on Form 809, Form 849 and the surety-bond affidavit as well.
The buyer's printed name	Named on the Division's list, and worth taking off their licence rather than from the way they introduced themselves.
The seller's printed name	Yours, matching the printed name you put in the assignment on the certificate.
The date of the sale	The same date as the assignment and the same date as the ten-day notice. Three documents carrying three different dates is the commonest thing a counter has to unpick.
The signatures of both the buyer and the seller	Both, on the same sheet. A bill of sale you signed and they did not is a note to yourself.
The price, if you want one on it	Not on the Division's list and not needed for any Alaska filing - there is no purchase-price box on the V1 and no state sales tax to compute. Put it on if you want the record; nothing at the counter asks for it.
For a snowmachine or ATV, this is the transfer	Off-highway vehicles are not titled in Alaska. They are registered by decal, the sale is notified on Form 808, and the bill of sale is the ownership paper the buyer keeps.

What gets this one rejected

•Believing it transfers the car. It does not, and the Division says so before it says anything else about it. What moves an Alaska vehicle is the assignment on the certificate.
•Writing sold as seen and thinking that is the whole document. The Division's list is name, name, date, description, serial number and two signatures - a disclaimer with none of those on it identifies neither the car nor the buyer.
•Leaving out the serial number because the make and colour are on it. A bill of sale for a silver pickup proves ownership of no particular pickup.
•Keeping the only copy. Both parties should leave with one, and the reason the Division gives is practical: it could be invaluable if the buyer receives parking tickets on the vehicle after it is no longer in your possession.
•Using it instead of the ten-day notice. They are unrelated documents with unrelated purposes, and only one of them has a criminal penalty attached to skipping it.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•The Division's own reason for wanting one. Not ownership - protection. Its example is the buyer collecting parking tickets on the vehicle after it has left your possession, and the bill of sale being the thing that shows when it left.
•It is not the notice, and the notice is not it. The notice goes to the Division inside ten days. The bill of sale goes in your filing box. Doing one does not do the other.
•Off-highway is the exception that proves it. For a quad or a snowmachine there is no certificate to assign, so the bill of sale plus the decal transfer is the whole transaction, and Form 808 is what tells the Division it happened.
•Any format will do. There is no Alaska form, so there is no wrong layout. A sheet of paper with the seven items on it is a complete bill of sale in this state.
•Say what is still owed, if anything. If a lender is named on the face of the certificate, write it down here as well as clearing it properly. A buyer who later says nobody mentioned the loan is harder to answer without it.

There is no Bill of Sale to read: the Alaska DMV does not publish it, so nothing on this page describes its contents beyond what the agency itself says about it — that is here — and what is on the Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles, Department of Administration 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 Alaska Bill of Sale

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What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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