The application that turns your assigned certificate into the buyer's title, and the one form in the whole Maine set that nobody can download. It is a multi-part carbon that exists only on paper, and the Bureau answers the question itself in its title FAQ: the MVT-2 is a carbon copy form and can only be found at your local BMV branch, town hall or municipal office. A seller is not the applicant on it, but two of its boxes are copied straight off your handwriting, and a mismatch between them and the back of the certificate is the commonest reason a Maine title takes months instead of weeks.
Written against MVT-2 (Rev. 3/23, read from the Bureau's own blank specimen), issued under 29-A M.R.S. section 652. The Bureau will also post you a pad of them. Its stockroom order sheet lists the MVT-2 first of twenty-three forms, in increments of twenty-five, free of charge - which is a strange way to obtain one copy, but it is the only route that does not involve a counter.
There is no download link for the MVT-2 here because there is not one anywhere - the Bureau does not publish it. The card below explains where it does come from.
There is no file to render. The Bureau prints this application as a multi-part carbon set and publishes no PDF of it anywhere, which its own title FAQ states in as many words, so there is no AcroForm to place values into and no honest way to show one filled in. The blank reproduced inside the Bureau's dealer training deck is what the field notes above are transcribed from.
| On the form | What to put in it |
|---|---|
| Owner information | The buyer's name or names, date of birth and current mailing address. Maine titles two people as joint owners or as common owners and the distinction matters later, on death: the Bureau's own affidavit asks which one the certificate says. |
| Vehicle information | Year, make, model, vehicle identification number and body type, plus whether the vehicle is new, used or rebuilt. |
| Odometer | The reading at transfer with no tenths and no estimate, and the same three-way choice printed on every Maine odometer block: actual mileage, in excess of mechanical limits, or not actual. |
| Lien information | First lienholder's name, address and date of lien, or the word NONE. A blank there is treated as an unanswered question rather than as an answer. |
| Signatures | Every owner named in the owner block signs. Where the vehicle is financed the lienholder signs too. |
| The fee | The Bureau's own dealer material puts it plainly: the application fee is $33 for normal processing of two weeks from the date of receipt in the Title Production Unit. Cheques are made payable to the Secretary of State, and the application is filed with the assigned certificate rather than instead of it. |
There is no MVT-2 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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