Almost certainly not the form you are looking for. Kentucky charges a buyer six per cent motor vehicle usage tax, and a seller searching for the affidavit behind that number lands here because of the word usage. This one is about how a vehicle is used, not about what was paid for it: it lets the owner of a school bus, a church's truck or a wrecker register at a reduced rate by swearing to what the vehicle will be used for over the next twelve months.
Written against TC 96-341 (05/2020), issued under KRS 186.050 and KRS 186.990.
The penalty line at the foot points at KRS 186.990. Swearing to a use that is not the vehicle's real use is not a paperwork slip, and the affidavit is the whole of the state's evidence.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank TC 96-341 from the transportation.ky.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual TC 96-341, 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
Filled in as what it actually is - a wrecker operator's annual statement of use - rather than as anything to do with a private sale. If this is the sheet a search for Kentucky's usage tax led you to, the number you want lives on the back of the certificate instead.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
Check whether you are on the right form at all
Read the three printed categories at the top: school transport, a church's truck or bus, or a wrecker.
Watch out: If none of them describes your vehicle, close it. The six per cent usage tax a buyer pays has nothing to do with this document.
2
You fill this in
The affiant
Your name and the address the vehicle is operated from, with the county sworn in named on the rule above.
Watch out: A business files in the name it is registered under, with a person's name and role beside it, because a signature has to belong to someone.
3
You fill this in
The vehicle description table
Vehicle identification number, make, model number, body style and model year - all five columns.
Watch out: Body style is what makes the affidavit stand up. Wrecker, bus, truck: write the thing the statute is about.
4
You fill this in
Sign and print
Signature of affiant and printed name of affiant, on the same rule.
Watch out: You are affirming a future twelve months of use. If the vehicle is about to be sold, that is a reason not to sign rather than a technicality.
5
You fill this in
Swear it
The attesting official's block: date, commission number, expiry, signature and title.
Watch out: The penalty provisions the form points to are in KRS 186.990, and they apply to the affirmation you just made, not to the clerk who filed it.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
The three qualifying categories
Printed across the head of the sheet: a truck or bus used solely in transporting school children and employees, a truck or bus owned by a church or religious organization, and a wrecker crane or other equipment suitable for wrecker service.
Commonwealth of Kentucky, County of
One rule for the county the affidavit is sworn in.
The affiant
Name, then street address or post office box, city and ZIP on the line beneath.
Vehicle description
A five-column table: vehicle identification number, make, model number, body style and model year.
The affirmation
One printed sentence - that during the next 12 months, the truck, bus, or wrecker will be used only for the appropriate purpose.
Signature and printed name of affiant
Both, on the same rule.
The jurat
Subscribed and attested before me on this date in month, day and year, with the attesting official or notary signature and title, a commission number and a commission expiry.
What gets this one rejected
•Using it as the affidavit of total consideration. That affidavit is printed on the back of the certificate of title itself and appears again on the application for title, not here.
•An ordinary car. The printed categories are a truck, a bus or a wrecker, and nothing else qualifies.
•A private vehicle a church happens to use. The statute the form quotes attaches to a truck or bus owned by the church or religious organization.
•Swearing to a use that has already stopped. The affirmation runs forward - during the next 12 months - and it is filed with the county clerk annually.
•Filing it in Frankfort. The form's own address is a post office box, but the statute has the affidavit filed with the county clerk.
•Leaving the vehicle table half filled. It asks for five things and a clerk cannot register the vehicle on four of them.
