The one duty in an Alaska sale that is yours alone, and the one most sellers hand to the buyer by accident along with the title. Alaska prints the notice on the certificate itself - a strip across the bottom edge headed Notice of Vehicle Sale for Transfer - and the Division's instruction is to complete it, tear it off and send or deliver it as soon as possible. Ten days is the deadline; a class B misdemeanour is what sits behind it. If the strip has already gone with the title, the same notice is filed free through the Division's online Report the Sale or Transfer of a Vehicle service, and that is the route most people end up taking.
Written against Notice of Vehicle Sale for Transfer (there is no separate form), issued under AS 28.10.271(c), which gives the owner ten days to notify the department and lists the four things the notice must carry. The brief version of Alaska's rules that circulates online says the fallback for a missing strip is a form numbered 820. There is no Alaska form 820. The Division's forms index runs to sixty-one published PDFs and none of them is an 820; on the Division's own selling page the words Notice of Transfer Pending are a hyperlink, and the link opens the online Report the Sale or Transfer service. If somebody sells you an 820, they have invented it.
There is no download link for the Notice of Vehicle Sale for Transfer here because there is not one anywhere - the Alaska DMV does not publish it. The card below explains where it does come from.
There is nothing to show filled in here because the Division publishes no such form: the notice is printed along the bottom edge of the certificate of title itself, and the only other way to file it is the Division's online service, which is a web page rather than a document. The diagram on our Alaska certificate of title page shows where the strip sits and what the statute requires it to carry.
| On the form | What to put in it |
|---|---|
| Name and address of owner | You, as the Division's record currently has you. The first of the four items the statute requires the notice to carry. |
| Name and address of transferee | The buyer. Written from their licence rather than from a text message - this is the name the Division will hold against the vehicle until they title it. |
| Date of transfer or assignment | The day the vehicle changed hands, which is also the day your ten-day clock started. It has to be the same date you wrote into the assignment on the certificate. |
| Description and license number of vehicle | The fourth statutory item: enough to identify the vehicle, and the plate number. The plate is still on the car, because in Alaska it stays there. |
| The online alternative | The Division's Report the Sale or Transfer of a Vehicle service asks for the full vehicle identification number, or the plate number plus the last two characters of the VIN, then the date of sale and the buyer's name and address. |
| The certification you tick online | That you have sold or transferred the vehicle described and have fully assigned and delivered the Certificate of Vehicle Title to the buyer or transferee. It is the online equivalent of signing the strip. |
| What the Division does with it | Two things. It records the transfer - the statute says this notification shall constitute a valid transfer - and it stops renewing the registration, because once told a transfer is pending the Division will not renew until the transfer has taken place. |
There is no Notice of Vehicle Sale for Transfer 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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