Not a seller's form, and it is on this site because a private seller who searches for how to sign a car over in Indiana will find it and think it is one. It is what a licensed dealer uses when a certificate has run out of reassignment space, and its own instructions rule out most of the situations people try to use it for - including every Indiana title printed since September 1989.
Written against State Form 20070 (R6 / 12-24), issued under 140 IAC 6-1-14.
If a dealership hands you this to sign as the person selling them a car, you are on the wrong form. A private seller's route into a dealership is the certificate itself, or the electronic transfer form where the title is electronic.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank State Form 20070 from the forms.in.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual State Form 20070, rendered from the PDF the Indiana Bureau 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 dealer's form, filled in end to end so a private seller can see that none of it is theirs. It has to be an out-of-state certificate - an Ohio one here - because the form's own third instruction bars every Indiana title printed since September 1989. Every amber box in section one is the dealership's; the only thing a private person ever writes on this page is the purchaser's signature at the very bottom.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
Dealers only
The vehicle and the attached certificate
Identification number, year and make, then the title number and the state it was issued by, written into the conveyance sentence.
Watch out: From the State of is not decoration. This form exists for out-of-state certificates that have run out of reassignment space, and an Indiana one printed since 1989 does not belong here at all.
2
Dealers only
Name of Dealer and Dealer Number
The dealership's legal name, its Indiana dealer number and its business address.
Watch out: A form without the dealer number is a form asking the BMV to accept a dealer transaction from an unidentified dealer.
3
Dealers only
Date of Sale, Selling Price and the purchaser
Two money and date boxes, then the purchaser's name, address, city, state and ZIP.
Watch out: If you are the purchaser, read your own name and address back before the form leaves the desk. It is going onto a title and nobody is going to check it afterwards.
4
Dealers only
The lien line
Electronic Lien and Title identification number, name of lienholder, and the lienholder's mailing address.
Watch out: The instruction inside the box asks for the word None where there is no lender. Writing it is the difference between an answered question and an unanswered one.
5
Dealers only
The odometer band
The reading in Miles (no tenths), and the two numbered statements about mechanical limits and a reading that is not the actual mileage.
Watch out: This is the dealer's certification of the mileage, not yours. If you sold them the car, yours was made on the certificate or on a separate disclosure statement and this one should agree with it.
6
Dealers only
Signature of Dealer Representative
Signature, printed name, Position and date in section 2.
Watch out: Position matters here for the same reason it matters on any entity signature - it records that the person signing had authority to sell the dealership's stock.
7
The buyer fills this in
The purchaser's acknowledgement
Signature, printed name and date under I am aware of the above odometer certification made by the seller.
Watch out: This is the one line on the page a private person signs. Read the mileage above it first, because that is exactly what you are acknowledging.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
SECTION 1 - TO BE COMPLETED BY A REGISTERED DEALER
The header says whose form it is. Vehicle Identification Number, Vehicle Year and Vehicle Make on the top row.
The conveyance sentence
The dealer listed below hereby sells, assigns, transfers, and conveys the above vehicle described on the attached certificate of title, with blanks for the title number and the state it came from.
Name of Dealer and Dealer Number
With the dealer business address, city, state and ZIP beneath.
Date of Sale and Selling Price
Two boxes, then the purchaser's name, address, city, state and ZIP.
Lien block
Electronic Lien and Title Identification Number, Name of Lienholder with the printed instruction if no lienholder write "None", and the lienholder's mailing address.
ODOMETER STATEMENT
A full band with the reading in Miles (no tenths) and the same two numbered exception statements the standalone disclosure carries.
SECTION 2 - AFFIRMATION
Signature of Dealer Representative with a Position box, then the purchaser's signature under the words I am aware of the above odometer certification made by the seller.
What gets this one rejected
•A private individual in the dealer block. The section heading is to be completed by a registered dealer and the Dealer Number has nowhere else to come from.
•Any Indiana title printed after September 1989. Instruction 3 excludes it outright, along with a certificate of origin and a bill of sale.
•An out-of-state title that already carries three dealer reassignments, or one that states "No Additional Dealer Reassignments" regardless of the number used.
•A title that still has a usable reassignment on it. The form is for when the space has run out, not for when writing on the certificate is inconvenient.
•Using it to replace a reassignment somebody skipped. Instruction 3 names that specifically, and a skipped reassignment is a gap in the chain that this cannot paper over.
•A Certificate of Salvage Vehicle title. Also excluded by name in the same instruction.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•Indiana does not guarantee it travels. Instruction 4 is unusually frank: the Indiana BMV does not guarantee that this form will be accepted by titling agencies in the other jurisdictions.
•Write None rather than leaving the lien line empty. The instruction is printed inside the box - if no lienholder write "None" - and a blank there reads as a question nobody answered.
•The purchaser acknowledges the mileage here too. The second signature in section 2 is the buyer's, under I am aware of the above odometer certification made by the seller.
Every line here was read off State Form 20070 (R6 / 12-24) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Indiana Bureau 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.
