The mirror image of the termination, and the form that explains why a lien you thought had aged out is still on your record. A Louisiana vehicle mortgage filing runs five years. Within six months before that five-year date expires, the secured party may file this and keep it alive. For a seller it is the answer to a specific question: the loan is from 2019, why is the lender still on the title. Because somebody filed this.
Written against DPSMV 1902 (no revision printed), issued under Act 1201 of 1995, R.S. 10:9-403, continuation of a security interest.
This is one of five OMV forms in this section that carry no revision at all - the footer is the six characters DPSMV 1902 and nothing else. There is no date to check it against, so the only way to know you have the current sheet is to take it from the department's own forms index rather than from a saved copy.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank DPSMV 1902 from the public.powerdms.com copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual DPSMV 1902, rendered from the PDF the Louisiana Office 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 actual DPSMV 1902, rendered from the PDF the OMV publishes. This one is a landscape sheet whose fillable boxes were laid out portrait and then rotated - reading that rotation out of the document is what puts the debtor's name in the debtor column instead of three columns to the right of it.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
The lienholder fills this in
Debtor (Owner's Name)
First column of the table.
Watch out: The registered owner, not the lender. If a continuation lands on your record under a slightly different spelling of your name, the lien is still on the vehicle and the mismatch is one more thing to unpick at the counter.
2
The lienholder fills this in
Parish Mortgage Previously Filed
The last column on the right of each row.
Watch out: Louisiana files mortgages parish by parish, so this names the office holding the original. It is the column most likely to be wrong on a loan that has been sold on, because the buying lender is working from a summary rather than from the filing.
3
The lienholder fills this in
Name(s) of Secured Party (Lienholder)
The strip along the bottom of the sheet, under the five-row table.
Watch out: This is the lender claiming the extension. Where it is not the name recorded against your vehicle, ask how the interest was assigned before you accept that the continuation is good.
4
The lienholder fills this in
EIN
The middle box of the bottom strip, between the lienholder's name and the representative's signature.
Watch out: A company number rather than a person's. It is the one identifier on this sheet that ties the filing to a specific legal entity rather than to a trading name that may have changed twice since the loan was written.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
The header paragraph
The authority and the window, in one block: a continuation statement filed by a secured party at any time within the applicable time period established in R.S. 9:5356(E) or (G), pertaining to the chattel mortgage, collateral chattel mortgage, or notice of security interest or previous reinstatement thereof.
Debtor (Owner's Name)
First column of a five-row landscape table.
Address, Street, City, State & Zip
Second column.
Social Security Number/EIN
Third column, and this one takes either, because a debtor can be a company.
Make
A narrow column, and the only vehicle description asked for other than the number.
Vehicle Identification Number
Fifth column.
Date of Mortgage
The date the security agreement was executed, which is what the five years run from.
Recordation Data (File No.)
The department's own reference for the original filing. Without it there is nothing to continue.
Parish Mortgage Previously Filed
Last column. Louisiana records mortgages by parish and this is where the original went.
Name(s) of Secured Party (Lienholder), EIN, Signature of Representative
A three-box strip at the foot, the same shape as the termination form's.
The fee sentence
In the header: a $15.00 continuation filing fee is required for each vehicle listed on this statement.
What gets this one rejected
•Filed outside the window. The header gives it as within six months prior to the expiration of the five year filing date, and a continuation filed late is not a continuation.
•No recordation data. The file number is what identifies the original filing this is extending.
•The date of mortgage left blank, which leaves the department unable to work out whether the filing is in time.
•Signed by the debtor. Like the termination, this is the secured party's statement and only the secured party can make it.
•One fee for a sheet listing four vehicles. The charge is per vehicle.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It changes nothing about your ability to sell. A continued mortgage is still a mortgage. The certificate stays with the lien holder of first rank, and the vehicle still cannot be assigned clean until the lien is released.
•Check the parish column against your own record. A mortgage previously filed in a parish you have never lived in is worth querying. Recordation data and parish together are how the department identifies which filing is being extended.
Every line here was read off DPSMV 1902 (no revision printed) 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.
