How to fill out Connecticut H-6B

One sheet that does two entirely different jobs, and the tick at the top decides which. Ticked as a Replacement Title it gets you a fresh certificate for $25 and about twenty business days. Ticked as an Ownership Transfer it becomes the paperwork that lets you sell a car whose title you cannot find - and in that mode the department will reject it outright unless a Q-1 is stapled to it.

Written against H-6B (Rev 5-2019), issued under Conn. Gen. Stat. s. 14-178 and s. 14-192(a)(5), subscribed under penalty of false statement per s. 14-110 and s. 53a-157b. The two ticks at the top of this form are not interchangeable and they are the first thing a clerk reads. If you are selling rather than replacing, tick Ownership Transfer and attach the Q-1 - a Replacement Title tick puts your application in the wrong queue and posts a certificate to you weeks after the buyer has walked away.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank H-6B from the portal.ct.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank H-6B — Application for Replacement Certificate of Title PDF at portal.ct.gov · new tab

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual H-6B, rendered from the PDF the Connecticut Department 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

A completed Connecticut Application for Replacement Certificate of Title, form H-6B. The Ownership Transfer box is ticked at the top with the Lost box marked beside it. Section 1 names Devereux, Camille R of 44 Slater Street, New Britain, CT 06051 with a birth date and licence number, and gives a title number, plate number, the vehicle identification number JF1SG65642H744019, make Subaru and year 2002. The lienholder line is empty. In Section 2 the YES box is ticked for all liens satisfied. — Filled in for the case the department warns about hardest: a sale where the certificate is lost, which needs the Ownership Transfer tick and a Q-1 attached rather than the Replacement Title tick. Every name and number here is invented for the sample.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
You fill this in
Reason for Application
Ownership Transfer or Replacement Title. One tick, and it decides what this sheet is.
Watch out: Ownership Transfer is the one for a sale, and the form's own bracket says it: must include a Q-1 form. Get this tick wrong and the application is rejected and returned.
2
You fill this in
If requesting a replacement title
Lost, Stolen, Mutilated or Destroyed. Ticked in addition to the reason above.
Watch out: Mutilated means the certificate exists but is damaged, and the department wants it attached. Destroyed means it does not exist any more.
3
You fill this in
Name(s) of owner(s) as on title, and address
The names exactly as the certificate carried them - which means as the department holds them, not as you write them now.
Watch out: If the name has changed since the title was issued, that is a separate correction and it happens before this application rather than inside it.
4
You fill this in
Owner's birth date and licence number
Two identifying boxes, with an optional phone and e-mail beside them.
Watch out: Fill the optional ones in anyway. This is a postal transaction with a ninety-day tail on it, and a telephone number is the difference between a query and a rejection.
5
You fill this in
Title number, plate number, VIN, make and year
Five vehicle boxes. The title number is marked if available; the rest are not.
Watch out: The title number is on the old registration certificate as well as on the missing title - the department notes on the face of each registration that a certificate has been issued.
6
You fill this in
Lienholder on title
The lender printed on the certificate, if there was one, with the reminder to submit a release letter.
Watch out: Leave it blank only if the face of the certificate was genuinely clear. A lien you have forgotten about is still on the department's record, and this is where it surfaces.
7
You fill this in
Section 2, lien status - and Section 3 underneath it
A YES/NO answer on whether all liens have been satisfied, used in place of a release letter where the loan is more than a decade old. Below it, Section 3 takes a printed name, a signature and a date on printed rules.
Watch out: Section 2 is not a general-purpose substitute - under ten years and the department wants the lender's letter on the lender's paper. And read Section 3's certification before signing it: no notary and no witness, but it reaches your own liability to anybody with a legal interest in the vehicle.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Reason for Application (Check One)	Ownership Transfer (Must include a Q-1 form), or Replacement Title. Two ticks, two different transactions.
If Requesting a Replacement Title (Check One)	Lost, Stolen, Mutilated (Please Attach) or Destroyed. Four ticks, and the mutilated one asks for the remains.
Section 1, Name(s) of Owner(s) as on Title, and Address	One long box for the names exactly as the certificate carries them, and the address.
Owner's Birth Date, Licence Number, Phone Number and E-mail Address	Four boxes, the last two marked optional.
Title Number (If available), Reg Plate/Vessel Number, Vehicle Identification Number, Make, Year	Five boxes across the vehicle row. The title number is the only one the form treats as optional.
Lienholder on Title (Name and Address)	With the instruction beside it: if your lien (loan) has been satisfied, please submit a letter from the lienholder stating such.
Section 2, Lien Status for a Lien Over 10 Years Old	A YES/NO pair on whether all liens and encumbrances have been satisfied, with room for names and addresses where the answer is no. It stands in for a release letter only where the loan is more than ten years old.
Section 3, Applicant's Signature	The certification, then a printed name box and a signature line, then a date. The certification runs to five sentences and one of them is about the applicant's own exposure: I may have liability to any third person or party who has a legal interest in the above described vehicle.
Customer Contact Information	Name of customer requesting info, daytime phone number and e-mail address - three boxes for whoever the department should ring back.
Forward Title To	A separate name and address block at the foot, for a certificate that should be posted somewhere other than the owner's address on file.
If by mail did you remember to:	The department's own three-item checklist at the foot: submit a check payable to DMV for $25.00, sign the application in Section 3, and enclose a lien release letter or complete Section 2.

What gets this one rejected

•An ownership transfer with no Q-1. The form says what happens in its own instructions: if the Q-1 form is NOT submitted, your application will be rejected and returned to you.
•A strikeover or an erasure. Instruction one is that you print in ink or type, and that strikeovers or erasures are not acceptable.
•An owner applying where a lien is still outstanding. The rule at the top of the sheet is that the lienholder shall apply for a replacement certificate of title with a power of attorney - and the department takes that route by mail only.
•A lien release for a loan less than ten years old answered in Section 2 instead. Section 2 is available only where the loan origination date is more than ten years back.
•A cheque for the wrong amount. It is $25 and the form prints it twice.
•A mutilated-title tick with nothing attached. The box says Please Attach.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•Who may apply. The owner or legal representative with proper identification, and only where no lienholder was listed on the original certificate.
•It has an online twin. The department takes replacement title applications online in about seven minutes for the same $25, needing your name as it appears on your licence, your date of birth, licence or ID number, social security number, the VIN and a card. That route is for replacement only, not for a transfer.
•Twenty business days by the online route, up to ninety by post. The department's own estimates. If a buyer is waiting, that difference is the whole decision.
•Selling without a title has three conditions. The department's list: the original certificate has been lost, the purchaser will be registering the vehicle in Connecticut, and the vehicle is titled in your name. If any one of them fails, you apply for a replacement instead.
•The $25 lands at registration, not with the application. Where an H-6B is used in lieu of the certificate on a sale, the department's note is that an additional $25.00 duplicate title fee will be charged at the time of registration.
•A replacement carries a permanent legend. Section 14-178(a) requires it: the replacement certificate of title shall contain the legend "This is a replacement title and may be subject to the rights of a person under the original certificate."

Every line here was read off H-6B (Rev 5-2019) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles 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 Connecticut H-6B

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Reason for Application

If requesting a replacement title

Name(s) of owner(s) as on title, and address

Owner's birth date and licence number

Title number, plate number, VIN, make and year

Lienholder on title

Section 2, lien status - and Section 3 underneath it

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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