The sheet Maine uses when the assignment printed on the reverse of the certificate cannot be used - because it has already been filled in once, because the vehicle is passing through an estate, or because somebody spoiled it and the certificate now says VOID. The Bureau describes it in one sentence on its own titles page: when selling a used vehicle that is a model year less than twenty-five years old, the assignment of ownership is made on the reverse of the current title or on an MVT-16 attached to the current title. Attached is the operative word. It never travels alone.
Written against MVT-16 (7-01, read from the Bureau's own blank specimen), issued under 29-A M.R.S. section 662. The revision printed on the Bureau's own blank of this form reads 7-01. It has been in service, unchanged, since before most of the cars it is used on were built - which is worth knowing if somebody tells you the copy in their glovebox is out of date.
There is no download link for the MVT-16 here because there is not one anywhere - the Bureau does not publish it. The card below explains where it does come from.
The Bureau publishes no file for this one. It is a carbon transfer sheet handed over a counter, reproduced only as a picture inside the training deck the Bureau gives licensed Maine dealers, so there is no AcroForm behind it and nothing to place values into. Showing a hand-drawn imitation of it would be worse than showing nothing.
| On the form | What to put in it |
|---|---|
| The vehicle | Year, make and vehicle identification number, copied from the face of the certificate it will be stapled to. |
| Transferor | The person giving the vehicle up, named exactly as the certificate names them, with a signature and a hand printed name. |
| Transferee | The person receiving it, with the address the new certificate will be posted to. |
| Odometer | The same disclosure the reverse of the certificate would have carried, because this sheet is standing in for that block and Maine's odometer requirement attaches to the transfer rather than to the paper. |
| Lienholder to be shown on the new title | Named, or NONE. |
| Date of transfer | The day possession actually changed hands. |
There is no MVT-16 to read: the Bureau does not publish it, so nothing on this page describes its contents beyond what the agency itself says about it — that is here — and what is on the Maine Bureau 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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