How to fill out Louisiana DPSMV 1990

The other way to sell a car in Louisiana: leave it on a dealer's lot with the title still in your name and let them find the buyer. This is the contract the state approves for it, and it matters beyond the commission, because a dealer selling a consigned vehicle may reassign your existing certificate straight to the buyer rather than titling it in the dealership's name first - but only where there is a written agreement on a form provided or approved by the commissioner, and this is that form.

Written against DPSMV 1990 (04/09), issued under R.S. 32:705(A)(4), sale of a consigned vehicle by a dealer. This form is dated 04/09 - printed as a bare month and year in brackets after the code, which is one of four different ways the OMV dates its paperwork. It has not been revised since, so the numbers in the insurance clause are the numbers as they were written.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank DPSMV 1990 from the public.powerdms.com copy so you get the revision that is current today.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank DPSMV 1990 — Consignment of Motor Vehicle PDF at public.powerdms.com · new tab

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual DPSMV 1990, 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

A Louisiana DPSMV 1990 consignment of motor vehicle filled in: dealer Pontchartrain Auto Sales of Metairie, consignor Roselle M. Boudreaux of Baton Rouge, a 2012 Honda 4-door sedan with licence QDT 913 and VIN 1HGCP2F30CA150826, an odometer reading of 141,022, a ninety-day term commencing 3 September 2026, noted defects to the bumper, mirror and tyres, a commission of 12% of the sales price on vehicles at $6,000 and above, a $250.00 nonrefundable consignment fee, a minimum acceptable sale price of $6,000.00 and no indebtedness recorded. — The actual DPSMV 1990 at revision 04/09, completed for a different vehicle from the rest of this section - a consignment is what happens instead of a private sale, not alongside one. Both notary blocks are left in ink.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
Dealers only
Dealer's name and address
The left-hand block at the head of the sheet, three rules and a business telephone number.
Watch out: Check the dealership's licence is current before you sign anything. A vehicle sold by a dealer whose licence had expired on the day is processed by the OMV as a multiple transfer, with tax and fees charged on each assignment.
2
You fill this in
Consignor's name and address
The right-hand block, mirroring the dealer's, with home and business phone numbers under it.
Watch out: Your name here has to match the name on the face of the certificate exactly. You are the person warranting title further down the page, and a mismatch makes that warranty somebody else's.
3
You fill this in
Motor No.
The last column of the vehicle table, after Year, Body Style, Make and License No.
Watch out: It means the VIN. Older OMV forms use motor number and serial number interchangeably for it, and the seventeen characters off the title are what belongs in the box.
4
You fill this in
for a term of __ days
Midway through the line that names the agent, with the commencement date after it.
Watch out: Put a number in it. This is the only thing on the contract that gets your car back if the dealer does not sell it, and an open-ended term with a nonrefundable fee already paid is the worst of both.
5
You fill this in
Sales price and Commission
A two-column table under the paragraph about commission at the consummation of the sale.
Watch out: The commission is a percentage of the sale price, so a scale with bands in it is worth reading carefully - a lower band that pays a higher percentage can net you less on a cheaper sale than a flat rate would.
6
You fill this in
nonrefundable consignment fee of $
A single box in the middle of a long printed paragraph.
Watch out: The paragraph says three separate things about this money: it is due on delivery, it is not refundable whether the car sells or not, and it is not credited against the commission. A dealer describing it as a deposit is describing something the contract does not say.
7
You fill this in
The minimum acceptable sale price
One box in a sentence of its own, above the indebtedness table.
Watch out: This is your floor and the contract binds the dealer to it even where a trade-in is taken as part of the price. Set it at what you would actually accept, not at what you hope to get.
8
You fill this in
Description of indebtedness
Three columns - description, holder, amount owed - with a date underneath for liquidating it.
Watch out: Fill it in honestly or write None. The paragraph above warrants a merchantable title free of all mortgages at the time of the act of sale, and a lender you did not mention is a warranty you have already broken.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Dealer's name and address, Consignor's name and address	Two facing blocks at the head, each three rules deep, with a business telephone number under the dealer and home and business numbers under you.
I, [consignor], hereby agree and consign the following motor vehicle	The operative sentence, with your name in it.
Year, Body Style, Make, License No., Motor No.	A five-column table. Motor No. is the OMV's older label and what goes in it is the vehicle identification number.
licensed in the state of Louisiana through 20 __, odometer reading of	A pair on the line under the table: the year your registration runs to, and the mileage on the day you hand the keys over.
to [agent], for a term of __ days commencing on the __ day of __, 20 __	Who is holding the car, for how long, and from when. The dealer is called the agent throughout the rest of the sheet.
defects being noted as existing at the time the vehicle was placed with the agent	Two full-width rules for damage found at handover. This is the only part of the contract that protects you against being handed back a car in worse condition than it left in.
Sales price / Commission	A two-column table for the commission scale, expressed as a percentage of the sale price.
nonrefundable consignment fee of $	A separate charge for putting the vehicle on the lot at all, and the sheet spells out three times that it is nonrefundable whether the vehicle sells or not, and that it is not credited against the commission.
The minimum acceptable sale price for the above captioned vehicle is $	Your floor. The dealer cannot go below it, including where a trade-in is taken as part of the price.
Description of indebtedness, Owed to, Amount owed	A three-column table for any mortgage still on the vehicle, with a date by which you agree to liquidate it - and a promise above it that you will deliver a merchantable title free of any and all mortgages, liens or debts at the time of the act of sale.
Liability and insurance clauses	Printed paragraphs: the agent is not liable for theft, vandalism or damage while the vehicle is in its possession, may allow prospective purchasers to test drive it, and you agree to keep liability cover of at least $5,000 / $10,000 / $5,000 and collision cover running the whole time.
Witness, Consignor, Consignee, Notary's signature, Notary's printed name/number	Two execution blocks, one in the middle of the sheet and one at the foot, each with two witness lines and a notary.

What gets this one rejected

•The minimum acceptable sale price left blank, which turns a floor into a suggestion.
•The defects rules left empty on a vehicle that has any. Silence here reads as a car handed over undamaged.
•A term of days left open. The contract has no end date without it and the vehicle sits on the lot indefinitely.
•A notary block signed with no printed name or number beside it - and the label on this form asks for both, in one box, in the words Notary's Printed Name/Number.
•The indebtedness table left blank where a lender is still recorded on the title. You are warranting a clear title in the paragraph above it.
•Only one owner signing as consignor where the certificate names two joined by AND.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•It is the paperwork that lets your title skip the dealership. Without a written consignment agreement, a dealer reselling your vehicle has to put the certificate through their own name first. With one, they may execute a sale and reassignment of your existing certificate with warranty of title, provided the consignor has assigned title to the dealer and there are no liens the purchaser has not been told about.
•The consignment fee and the commission are two separate charges. Read the paragraph twice. The fee is due on delivery of the vehicle, is not refundable if the car does not sell, and does not come off the commission if it does.
•The insurance stays yours. You keep liability and collision cover running while somebody else's customers are test driving your car. The dealer's clause disclaims responsibility for theft, vandalism or damage of any kind or nature whatsoever while the vehicle is in its possession.

Every line here was read off DPSMV 1990 (04/09) 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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How to fill out Louisiana DPSMV 1990

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Dealer's name and address

Consignor's name and address

Motor No.

for a term of __ days

Sales price and Commission

nonrefundable consignment fee of $

The minimum acceptable sale price

Description of indebtedness

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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