Colorado's repair kit for a transfer that has gone slightly wrong. Six pre-printed statements with a blank after each, a free Statement box above them, and a line reading No Fraud Intended sitting between the last statement and the signature. Two of the six are written for a seller: the one that corrects the spelling of a name on the assignment of title, and the one that says the seller signed in the buyer's area by mistake.
Written against DR 2444 (09/12/25), issued under C.R.S. 42-6-107 and 18-8-503.
It is a sworn statement, not a note. The certification above the signature is the same penalty of perjury in the second degree that the back of the certificate carries, and it is the reason a clerk will accept a written explanation at all.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank DR 2444 from the dmv.colorado.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual DR 2444, 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 sixth printed statement ticked, and the free Statement box used to say what actually happened. The five statements above it are washed grey because only one thing went wrong.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
Name
Whoever is swearing to the statement, printed on the top rule.
Watch out: If two owners both need to say the same thing, that is two forms. There is one signature line at the foot and no room for a second.
2
You fill this in
The vehicle, and the title number
Vehicle identification number on its own rule, then year, make and the title number from the face of the certificate.
Watch out: The title number is what ties this to one specific document. Leave it out and the statement floats free of the packet it is meant to be explaining.
3
You fill this in
Tick the statement that fits
Six printed options. A seller normally wants the misspelling line or the one about signing in the buyer's area in error.
Watch out: Tick one. Two ticks makes a single sworn statement say two different things about one transfer, and the clerk cannot tell which one to act on.
4
You fill this in
Fill the blank after it
The correct spelling, the actual purchase date and price, the name being added - whatever the statement you ticked is waiting for.
Watch out: The sixth statement is the exception: it is a complete sentence with nothing to add. Everything else needs a value or it says nothing.
5
You fill this in
The Statement box, if you need it
The deep free-text box near the top, for a situation none of the six printed lines describes.
Watch out: Be dull and specific. A clerk is trying to reconcile two documents, so a sentence naming what is on each of them beats an apology.
6
You fill this in
Sign and date
One signature and a date in MM/DD/YY, under the certification.
Watch out: Read the line above it. This is sworn under penalty of perjury in the second degree, which is what makes it acceptable to the county in the first place.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
Name
One rule at the top - the person making the statement, not necessarily the person named on the title.
Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
A single wide field.
Year, Make, Title Number
Three boxes on one rule, tying the statement to a specific certificate rather than to a vehicle in general.
Statement
A deep free-text box for anything the six printed options do not cover.
My current/correct address is
The first of the six printed statements, each with its own tick and its own blank.
My actual purchase date/price is
The one a county reaches for when the price was left off the back of the title and no bill of sale turned up.
I hereby release my rights to any credit of my ownership tax to
Colorado prorates specific ownership tax, and this line assigns whatever is left of it to somebody else.
Please add the name of
Used where a second owner is being put onto the certificate.
My name is incorrect on the assignment of title; the correct spelling is
The seller's line. It corrects a misspelling in the assignment without touching the assignment itself.
My title should read in my legal name, which is
For the applicant taking title rather than the one giving it up.
I signed my name in the buyer's area in error. I am the seller of the vehicle.
The sixth statement, and the only one printed as a complete sentence with no blank after it.
No Fraud Intended
Three words on a line of their own above the certification, which is the whole point of the document.
Signature and Date (MM/DD/YY)
Under a certification made under penalty of perjury in the second degree that the above facts are true and accurate.
What gets this one rejected
•Using it to fix the odometer reading. An alteration in the odometer block voids the certificate, and a statement of fact cannot revive it - the route out is a duplicate title.
•A tick with an empty blank after it. Five of the six statements are sentences waiting for a value and are meaningless without one.
•Signed by somebody other than the person the statement is about. The name at the top and the signature at the foot are the same person.
•No title number. The form ties itself to a certificate, and a statement about an unidentified document is not evidence of anything.
•Several unrelated corrections on one sheet. The county reads it as one sworn statement, so a second problem gets a second form.
•Used to reduce a price after the fact. The purchase date and price line records what actually happened, and the certification above the signature is the same perjury clause as everywhere else.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It supplements the packet, it never replaces the certificate. Nothing on this page transfers ownership. It travels with the assigned title and the application and explains one thing about them.
•The words No Fraud Intended are printed, not written. They sit above the certification as part of the form. A county clerk is looking for the tick, the blank and the signature, not for you to add a phrase.
