A single page that says two names belong to one person or one company. It is the smallest form in the Colorado set and the one an ordinary seller is most likely to be sent away for, because the department's rule is unforgiving: the seller must print their name exactly as the face of the title prints it, and a first initial with a last name is not acceptable from a seller or a seller's agent.
Written against DR 2421 (09/15/23), issued under C.R.S. 42-6-116 and 18-8-503.
This reconciles two spellings of one name. It is not a name change: a genuine change of legal name is handled as a title transfer from the old name to the new one, with marriage or divorce documentation and secure and verifiable identification behind it.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank DR 2421 from the dmv.colorado.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual DR 2421, rendered from the PDF the Colorado Department of Revenue, Division of Motor Vehicles 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 commonest version of this form: a title printed with a full middle name and a driver licence carrying an initial. The Company box is greyed because this is a person, and there is no date field on the sheet to fill in.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
Name of Person or Name of Company One
The spelling on the face of the certificate of title, character for character, including any middle name printed there.
Watch out: Copy it from the document, not from memory. Half the statements filed for a spelling mismatch have a third spelling on them.
2
You fill this in
and Name of Person or Name of Company Two
The other spelling - normally the one on the secure and verifiable identification you handed across the counter.
Watch out: If three spellings are in play - title, licence, and the assignment you already signed - the statement needs to name the pair the clerk is actually stuck on.
3
You fill this in
Are one and the same: Person or Company
One tick. Person for two spellings of a human being, Company for a trading name and the legal entity behind it.
Watch out: A sole trader selling a van titled in a business name ticks Company, not Person, even though there is one human involved.
4
You fill this in
Signature
One signature under the certification made under penalty of perjury in the second degree.
Watch out: Signed by the person whose two names are being reconciled. A relative, a partner or an agent cannot swear to it for you unless they hold a power of attorney.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
Name of Person or Name of Company One
The first spelling, with several lines of room in case it is a long business name.
and Name of Person or Name of Company Two
The second spelling, under the word and.
Are one and the same
Two tick boxes at the end of the printed sentence: Person, or Company.
The certification
One sentence certifying under penalty of perjury in the second degree that the above statements are true and accurate to the best of the signer's knowledge.
Signature
One rule, and there is no date field anywhere on the sheet.
What gets this one rejected
•Neither box ticked. Person and Company are the whole of the choice and the clerk cannot infer which one a name is.
•Two names that are not plausibly the same person. It reconciles a spelling, a middle initial, a maiden name or a trading name - it does not transfer anything.
•Filed instead of getting the printed name right. Where the assignment has not been signed yet, spelling it the way the face of the title spells it costs nothing and saves this sheet.
•One statement covering two different mismatches. A seller whose name is wrong and a buyer whose name is wrong need one of these each.
•An alteration to either name field. Colorado's general rule on title documents is that an alteration or erasure may void them.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It has no date box, so the packet dates it. There is nowhere to write a date on this form. It has meaning only as part of an application, which is why it travels stapled to the rest rather than being kept as a standing document.
•Businesses use it too. The Company tick box exists for the case where a title is in a registered trading name and the identification is in the legal entity name behind it.
