The sworn sentence that clears a Kansas title: the lienholder listed below certifies that their lien for the vehicle listed herein for the owner(s) shown above has been satisfied and is hereby released. It is the lienholder's form, not yours - their officer signs it, and a Kansas lienholder's signature is notarized in the Subscribed and Sworn block the sheet carries - but it is the seller who needs it to exist, because no buyer can get a clear title, and no electronic title can become paper, while the lien stands on the record.
Written against TR-150 (www 06/24), issued under K.S.A. 8-1,157.
The mail-to block is the strategic decision on this sheet. Send the freed title to yourself and you control the assignment ceremony; send it to the buyer and the sale finishes by post; send it to nobody because the block was left blank and everyone waits. Decide before the lender's officer signs, because the release travels with the choice made.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank TR-150 from the ksrevenue.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our TR-150 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.
This is the actual TR-150, rendered from the PDF the Kansas Department of Revenue, Division of 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 lienholder's sheet from top to bottom - the only amber on it belongs to the credit union's side, because the seller writes nothing here except the destination. The notary's signature, county and commission lines stay blank on the sample: the Division's PDF gives the sworn date its own boxes and leaves the rest to the notarial officer's pen and seal. The mail-to block at the foot is completed to the seller, which is the choice that puts the freed paper title in the seller's hands for the assignment.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
The lienholder fills this in
The vehicle and the owners
VIN, year, make, then the owner names and address exactly as the title record carries them.
Watch out: Ask the lender to copy from the title record, not the loan file - a release naming a slightly different owner than the record is a mismatch the Bureau has to query.
2
The lienholder fills this in
The certification
The lienholder's name and the officer's signature under the printed sentence that the lien has been satisfied and is hereby released.
Watch out: The signer needs authority to release - a branch teller's goodwill is not an authorized signature, and a bounced release costs another round of post.
3
The lienholder fills this in
The notary block
Subscribed and Sworn before me, dated, with the notary's signature, county, state, commission expiry and seal.
Watch out: Kansas lienholders only - the out-of-state lender who mails an unsworn release on letterhead is inside the rules, and insisting they find a notary just adds a week.
4
You fill this in
The mail-to block
Name, mailing address, city, state and ZIP for the freed title - the fields the sheet itself marks required.
Watch out: This is your line to influence: ask the lender to direct the title to you if you are selling on a TR-39a timeline, because your sixty-day delivery promise is waiting on this envelope.
5
The lienholder fills this in
File it once
Attached to a paper title, or faxed or emailed to the Title and Registration Bureau for an electronic one.
Watch out: Once. The sheet's own instruction is please do not fax the release more than once, and the fax confirmation page is the proof of delivery worth keeping.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
Vehicle band
VIN, year and make across the top of the sheet.
Owner's Information
Two name lines - last, first, middle initial - and one address block for the owner or owners the lien was recorded against.
Lienholder Information
The lienholder's name, the certification sentence, and Signed by - the officer executing the release.
The notary block
Subscribed and Sworn before me, with day, month and year, the notary's signature, county, state, commission expiry and seal - required because this is a Kansas lienholder's release.
Title To Be Mailed To
Marked REQUIRED FIELDS on the sheet: name, mailing address, and city, state and ZIP for wherever the freed paper title should go.
What gets this one rejected
•A release with erasures or white-out. The Division's registration FAQ refuses lien releases with any erasures, whiteouts, alterations or mutilations - a spoiled release is re-executed, not corrected.
•A Kansas lienholder's release without the notary. The FAQ's rule is a notarized signature of the individual authorizing the release, Kansas lienholders only - an out-of-state lienholder's release is accepted unsworn.
•An empty mail-to block. The sheet marks it required, and the instruction repeats it: the mailing instructions for the title must be filled out. A release that frees the title to nowhere delays the very certificate you need.
•Faxing it twice. The instruction asks in as many words - please do not fax the release more than once - because duplicate releases queue as separate documents and slow each other down.
•Expecting this form to move ownership. It removes the lender from the record; the sale itself still runs on the assigned certificate this release finally lets the Division print.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•Three routes to the same release. For a paper title, the lien can be released on the face of the certificate itself, or this form can be attached to it. For an electronic title, the form goes to the person who satisfied the lien, purchased the vehicle or requested the release - or by fax or email straight to the Title and Registration Bureau.
•The statute times the lender, not you. K.S.A. 8-1,157 - quoted on the TR-155 - gives a paid-off lienholder three business days to execute a release after payment in cash, wired funds or intra-bank transfer, and ten business days for any other payment method.
•A letter works too. The Division's used-vehicle page accepts the release on the title, on this form, or as a letter from the lienholder releasing the lien - what matters is the sworn certification, not the letterhead.
Every line here was read off TR-150 (www 06/24) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Kansas Department of Revenue, Division of Vehicles pages.
This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ,
theirs governs.
