How to fill out Louisiana DPSMV 1901

The document that takes a lender off a Louisiana vehicle record, and it is not yours to file. The header explains itself: a termination statement is filed with the OMV by a secured party to the effect that he no longer claims a security interest in a titled motor vehicle. It matters to a seller because until the mortgage is terminated, the certificate of title is sitting in the lender's file rather than yours - R.S. 32:708(A) sends it to the lien holder of first rank when it is issued - and a car whose certificate you have never held is a car you cannot assign.

Written against DPSMV 1901 (Rev 04/06/2026), issued under Act 1201 of 1995, R.S. 10:9-404, termination of a security interest. Revised 6 April 2026. There is a second cost worth knowing that is not printed here: the department's published fee schedule sets a separate lien recordation and cancellation charge for instruments other than a UCC filing, and that is a different transaction from the per-vehicle charge in this form's own header.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank DPSMV 1901 from the public.powerdms.com copy so you get the revision that is current today.

Every line, in the order you meet it

1. 1
   The lienholder fills this in

   Debtor (Owner's Name)

   First column of the table, and it holds the registered owner's name rather than the lender's.

   Watch out: Read your own name here carefully when the copy comes back to you. A termination filed against a spelling that does not match the record is a termination that does not attach to your vehicle.

2. 2
   The lienholder fills this in

   Social Security Number

   Third column, headed Social Security Number, and the lender fills it from its own loan file.

   Watch out: Do not supply this to anyone but the lender that already holds it. A form asking for it is not automatically entitled to it, and a lender terminating its own lien has the number already.

3. 3
   The lienholder fills this in

   Vehicle Identification Number

   The widest column, at the right-hand end of each row, beside the title or file number.

   Watch out: The department matches the termination to the record on this and on the title number together. Check both against the certificate before you accept that the lien has gone.

4. 4
   The lienholder fills this in

   Name(s) of Secured Party (Lienholder)

   The strip under the table: lender name, address and EIN, with the representative's signature box at its right.

   Watch out: The name here has to be the lender recorded on the record, not a servicer or a successor with a different trading name. Where a loan has been bought and sold, the OMV's rule is that a lienholder's name cannot simply be changed when processing a duplicate title.

What gets this one rejected

• •Sent in by the owner. The statement is a declaration by the secured party that it no longer claims a security interest, and only the secured party can make it.
• •A title or file number that does not match the vehicle identification number in the same row. The department matches on both.
• •A row with a vehicle in it and no debtor name, or a debtor name with no vehicle. Each row is one termination and needs both halves.
• •No signature of representative. There is one box for it at the foot of the sheet and nothing else on the form is an execution.
• •Fewer fees than vehicles. The charge is per vehicle listed, not per statement.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

• •What you actually want is the paper, not the form. A lender that has closed your loan and says so on the telephone has not released anything. The OMV wants the release either noted on the face of the certificate, or evidenced by the original note stamped paid, or by a satisfaction of lien on the lienholder's letterhead carrying the lender's name, address and telephone number - or by a notarised affidavit of satisfaction signed by a representative.
• •Ten days from a written demand. The header sets out the lender's own deadline. Where a debtor makes a written demand, the termination statement is due within ten days of it - which is worth knowing when a lender has been unresponsive for a month and the car is sold subject to it.
• •Do not confuse it with a lien continuation. The near-identical sheet numbered one lower does the opposite job: it keeps a mortgage alive past its five-year expiry rather than ending it.

Every line here was read off DPSMV 1901 (Rev 04/06/2026) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Louisiana Office 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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