How to fill out Idaho 3337

The form most people assume is the centre of an Idaho sale, and mostly is not. Read its own Intended Users line: Idaho financial agencies registered with the Department of Finance, licensed Idaho manufactured home dealers, out-of-state dealerships and financial agencies, and private party sales to Idaho residents where the sale is conducted outside the state of Idaho. In an ordinary sale between two Idahoans, nobody fills this in at home - the county assessor's deputy prepares the title application at the counter for the buyer to sign. ITD's Vehicle Titles page lists it as optional for exactly that reason. It is here because a seller will find it, download it, and need to know whose form it is.

Written against 3337 (Rev 4/24), issued under Idaho Code 49-504. If you are an Idaho seller looking at this form because you cannot get to a county office, the form you actually want is probably ITD 3368, the limited power of attorney - ITD's Vehicle Titles page lists it as the situational document that authorises the county assessor to sign the application for an owner applying by post.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank 3337 from the itd.idaho.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our 3337 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank 3337 — Application for Certificate of Idaho Title PDF at itd.idaho.gov · new tab Step 2 · how to fill it in Our filled-in 3337 guide PDF · print and keep beside you

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual 3337, rendered from the PDF the Idaho Transportation Department, 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

Filled in as the buyer's application, because that is whose form it is - the seller never signs this one. The whole of Section 3's dealer arithmetic is washed grey along with the seller's permit number, because a private sale has neither a permit nor a rebate nor a trade-in to subtract.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
The buyer fills this in
Check first whether you need it at all
An in-state private sale is handled at a county assessor's motor vehicle office, which prepares the application for the buyer to sign.
Watch out: ITD lists this form as optional on its Vehicle Titles page, for out-of-state dealers, lienholders and leasing companies. Downloading it does not make it your route.
2
The buyer fills this in
Section 1: who goes on the title
Full legal names, Idaho driver's licence numbers or SSNs, and the Or / And boxes that join them.
Watch out: Or means either owner can sign for the vehicle later; And means both must, every time. That choice outlives this transaction by years.
3
The buyer fills this in
Section 2: the vehicle
VIN, year, make, body type, model, colour - copied from the assigned certificate.
Watch out: Do not use codes from the old title. ITD's own instruction for its title forms is to spell out makes and models.
4
The buyer fills this in
The odometer block
Reading, date of reading, and one of the five statuses.
Watch out: Exempt is the status for a model year 2010 or older vehicle. It is not the status for a vehicle whose seller simply did not write a number down.
5
The buyer fills this in
Section 3: leave it alone
The sale block and its six money boxes are completed by the dealer, financial agency, leasing company or rental company.
Watch out: In a private sale the price lives on the bill of sale and on the title, and the county calculates the 6% from those.
6
The buyer fills this in
Section 4: any lien
The lender's name and mailing address, if the purchase is financed.
Watch out: If a lien is recorded here the title goes to the lienholder rather than to the owner, which is what ITD's Vehicle Titles page means by the title being mailed or electronically transmitted to the lienholder.
7
The buyer fills this in
Section 8, in front of the witness
The applicant certifies the information and that the vehicle is theirs, and the dealer or financial agency witnesses it in Section 6.
Watch out: Signing at home defeats the form. Its instructions say without that witness it will not be processed.
8
The buyer fills this in
Send it with the money
The assigned title, this application, the state's fourteen-dollar title fee plus the county's admin fee, the sales or use tax, and a VIN inspection if the vehicle is arriving from out of state.
Watch out: Thirty days from delivery. Section 49-504A charges the new owner a twenty-dollar penalty on the thirty-first.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Section 1 - Owner #1, #2 and #3: Full Legal Name or Business Name, Idaho Driver's License # or SSN / EIN if Business, Sex, Date of Birth	Three owner rules, each with an identifier, and a set of small boxes to the right - Or, And, LSR, LSE, DBA - that decide how the names are joined on the new title.
Owner's Legal Physical Address and Mailing Address if Different, with City, State, Zip+4	Two address rules. Idaho requires a physical domicile address under section 49-504(1), with a mailing address only where it differs.
Section 2 - 1st and 2nd Vehicle or Hull Identification Number	The VIN, with a second box for a motor home coach, a double-wide manufactured home, or an assembled vehicle.
Year, Make, Body Type, Model, Description, Color, Fuel Type, Wheel Base	The department's own vehicle description row. Fuel type is required for trucks.
Weight, Length, Width, Hull Material, Horsepower, Propulsion	A second row that exists for trailers and vessels and stays empty on a car.
Odometer Reading (no tenths), Date of Reading, Odometer Status	The mileage, when it was read, and one of five statuses: Actual, In Excess, Not Actual, No Device, Exempt.
Section 3 - Idaho Sellers Permit No., Purchase Date, Lease / Rental / Tax Not Included / Tax Exempt Sale / Tax Exempt Form	The sale block, and the instructions say plainly who fills it: this section is completed by the financial agency, dealer, leasing company or rental company.
Gross Sales Price, Dealer Sales Qualifying Rebates, Net Idaho Sales Tax Due, Additional Trade-In Allowance, Net Idaho Sales Tax Collected, Adjusted Gross Sales Price	Six money boxes of dealer arithmetic. A private seller has no seller's permit to write above them and no rebate or trade-in to deduct.
Section 4 - Primary and Secondary Lienholder Name, Mailing Address, City, State, Zip+4	Any lien to be recorded on the new title.
Section 5 - Previous State and Previous State Brand: Rebuilt Salvage, Reconstruct, Repaired, Other	For a vehicle arriving from another jurisdiction with a brand that has to be carried forward.
Section 6 - Agency/Dealer Name, Authorized Representative's Name Printed, Title, Address	The witness block. The instructions call it a note to sellers: in Section 6 you are certifying the accuracy of the information and witnessing the signature of the applicant.
Section 7 - Payment	Cheque or credit card, with the department's service fee on card payments.
Section 8 - Applicant's certification and signature	The applicant certifies the accuracy of the information and that the vehicle or vessel is owned by them.

What gets this one rejected

•Using it for an ordinary in-state private sale. The instructions confine private-party use to a sale to an Idaho resident conducted outside the state of Idaho; anything else goes over a county counter.
•An unwitnessed applicant signature. The form's own rule: the applicant's signature must be witnessed by the dealer or financial agency or it will not be processed.
•A private seller completing Section 3. That block belongs to a financial agency, dealer, leasing company or rental company, and the seller's permit number box above it is required for leasing and rental companies.
•An agent signing with nothing attached. Either the original power of attorney or a copy verified to be a true copy must be attached, and it must describe the vehicle completely.
•A saved copy of the PDF. The form asks you not to - go to the ITD website for the most updated forms - because it is designed to be completed on screen and printed for signature.
•A faxed application. Faxed copies are not acceptable, in those words.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•Correct it on the paper, then initial it. ITD's instructions for this form allow a correction: put a line through the wrong information, enter the right information, and initial the correction. That is the one place Idaho tells you how to amend a title document.
•Section 6 is somebody else's certification, not yours. It is a witness block for the dealer or financial agency, and a financial institution can also use it to confirm that a VIN inspection has been done.

Every line here was read off 3337 (Rev 4/24) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Idaho Transportation Department, Division 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 Idaho 3337

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Check first whether you need it at all

Section 1: who goes on the title

Section 2: the vehicle

The odometer block

Section 3: leave it alone

Section 4: any lien

Section 8, in front of the witness

Send it with the money

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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