The repair kit for a mileage figure that reached the record wrong, and it can only be signed by the person who is allowed to disclose mileage in the first place - the seller. The Cabinet's own instruction is blunt about that: only the seller can disclose the mileage when updating the title, so a buyer who has spotted the mistake has to find the seller again and get them back in front of a notary.
Written against TC 96-322 (05/2020), issued under KRS 190.300.
This is the form behind an awkward conversation, so keep the seller's contact details after a sale and expect to be asked. A buyer who cannot reach the seller has no route to a correction at all, and the wrong figure stays on the record.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank TC 96-322 from the transportation.ky.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual TC 96-322, rendered from the PDF the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Division of Motor Vehicle Licensing 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
Both columns completed, because the form is built as a matched pair - the seller states the true figure and the buyer stands beside it. The three selection boxes under the corrected figure carry no printed rule, so nothing is drawn in them here; on the filing itself exactly one is marked, and on a correction that restores a true reading it is the first.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
I, ______ (Previous Owner/Seller)
Your name, in the opening rule of the sentence.
Watch out: It has to be you. The Cabinet's rule is that only the seller can disclose the mileage, which is why a buyer holding a wrong figure has to come back to you.
2
You fill this in
Upon transfer to ______ (New Owner/Buyer)
The buyer's name, then the year and make of the vehicle on the two short rules beside it.
Watch out: Name the person you actually handed it to. If the car has moved on again since, the correction still runs between the two of you.
3
You fill this in
Vehicle identification number and title number
Both, on the two rules under the names.
Watch out: The title number is on the front of the certificate at the top left. If you photographed the document at the handover you already have it.
4
You fill this in
The mileage should have been recorded as
The reading that was true when the car changed hands, and then one of the three boxes underneath.
Watch out: Actual mileage is the box for a straightforward mistyping. The other two are certifications about the odometer itself and they follow the car.
5
You fill this in
Both signatures and both printed names
Seller's signature and printed name on the left, the buyer's on the right.
Watch out: Print as well as sign. The clerk keying this reads the printed line, and a signature that cannot be read is a call back to you.
6
You fill this in
The attesting official
The official's name and title on the two rules under the signatures, then the sworn-before-me date, commission number and expiry.
Watch out: The commission number rule is printed as four short segments rather than one box - it is one number, written across them, not four separate entries.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
The running sentence
I, [previous owner or seller], hereby state that upon transfer to [new owner or buyer] on this [year] [make] vehicle, the odometer was stated incorrectly.
The vehicle
Two rules underneath the names: the vehicle identification number, and the title number.
The mileage should have been recorded as
One rule for the corrected figure.
And noted as, select one
Three boxes - Actual mileage, Exceeds mechanical limits, Not actual mileage - and the form says to select one.
The statutory reminder
A printed paragraph that federal and state laws require mileage to be disclosed by the seller, with the same penalty language the certificate carries.
Four name and signature rules
Seller's signature and buyer's signature above their printed names, in two columns.
Attesting official and title
Two more rules under the signatures for the official's name and title.
The jurat
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of, then a commission number printed as four short segments and a commission expiry in month, day and year.
What gets this one rejected
•A buyer signing it alone. The disclosure belongs to the seller; the buyer's signature sits beside it, not instead of it.
•Two of the three selection boxes marked. The instruction beside them is to select one.
•A correction that contradicts a discrepancy already recorded. This form fixes a figure; it does not lift a brand somebody has already earned.
•A third number. The corrected reading has to be the reading that was true at transfer, not the reading today.
•No title number. The clerk is finding one record among millions, and the identification number alone can match a vehicle whose title has been reissued.
•An unsworn signature. Like everything else in a Kentucky transfer, the correction is attested.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It is filed by the new owner's clerk, not yours. The Cabinet's instruction is that the mileage correction is done by the county clerk in the new owner's county, with photo identification. The seller supplies the affidavit; the buyer walks it in.
•Ticking Actual mileage is a statement about the past. You are certifying what the odometer read at the moment of transfer, which is why the form asks who it was transferred to and when rather than asking for today's figure.
