How to fill out Minnesota PS2015

A parts list, signed by whoever did the work. Minnesota brands a title RECONSTRUCTED where a vehicle has been altered from its original construction by the removal, addition or substitution of essential parts, and this declaration is how the state finds out what was substituted and where each piece came from. It is also part of what clears a salvage brand, and it is signed by the person who made the repairs rather than by the owner.

Written against PS2015 (PS2015A-26, 7/26), issued under Minnesota Statutes 168A.30. Being honest on this form costs less than being caught by it. Minnesota Statute 168A.30 provides that falsifying information on any required document shall be guilty of a felony, and the sentence is printed in the middle of the page in bold.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank PS2015 from the assets.dps.mn.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.

Every line, in the order you meet it

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   Current licence plate and title number

   The two boxes at the head of side A.

   Watch out: On a vehicle carrying a salvage brand the title number is the salvage title's. That certificate is surrendered as part of clearing the brand, so copy the number before it goes.

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   Fill in only the rows that changed

   Twelve named components, from body or cab down to roof. Leave alone the ones that were not replaced.

   Watch out: A grid completed all the way down on a vehicle that had a front-end rebuild reads as carelessness, and every line on it is a line somebody may ask for a receipt against.

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   Part number or VIN of parts vehicle

   The middle column - the number of the part itself, or the identification number of the vehicle it came off.

   Watch out: A donor vehicle's identification number is the strongest entry you can make here, because it can be looked up. A generic part number cannot.

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   Obtained from

   The right-hand column: the recycler, the dealer or the individual each part came from.

   Watch out: Name the business rather than the town. This column and the receipts are read together at the inspection.

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   Other changes

   The deep box under the grid, for anything the twelve rows do not cover.

   Watch out: The form names its own examples - cutting down the body or frame, changes of springs, wheels, axles. Structural work that is not in the grid belongs here or nowhere.

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   Repair shop and owner

   The repair shop's name and telephone number on the left, the owner's name on the right.

   Watch out: A telephone number that reaches somebody matters. This is the shop the department rings when the inspection turns up a part the grid does not explain.

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   The rebuilder signs

   The signature rule at the foot of side A, under the confirmation that the vehicle meets the requirements of chapter 169 for its class.

   Watch out: The person who made the repairs signs, and they are certifying roadworthiness as well as parts. A shop that will do the work but not sign this is telling you something.

What gets this one rejected

• •The owner signing it. The form says the person who made the repairs must sign, and on a professionally rebuilt vehicle that is the shop.
• •A parts row with a source and no number, or a number and no source. The two columns are read as one line and half a line proves nothing.
• •No receipts. DVS's salvage page asks for receipts on original company letterhead for any major parts that were replaced, or a copy of the title of a parts vehicle.
• •Filing it on its own. Its own instruction is that the declaration must accompany the application to title your reconstructed or specially assembled vehicle.
• •Ignoring the identification-number warning. The form opens by saying it is against federal and state laws to tamper with or remove a vehicle identification number plate or label, and that destruction, removal, alteration, covering or defacement may be cause for the Department to refuse to title or register your vehicle.
• •Leaving the other-changes box empty on a heavily modified vehicle. Cutting down a body or frame and changing springs, wheels or axles are named on the form as the kind of thing that belongs there.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

• •Reconstruction is a permanent brand. RECONSTRUCTED appears on titles for vehicles altered from the original construction by the removal, addition or substitution of essential parts, and DVS says the brand is permanent and will appear on all subsequent titles issued.
• •It goes hand in hand with an inspection. Reconstructed and specially assembled vehicles are subject to a motor vehicle inspection, and DVS's inspection is looking for fraud and theft rather than at the brakes.
• •ASSEMBLED is a notation, not a brand. Minnesota puts it on the title of a motorcycle assembled from new aftermarket parts, and the department lists it separately from its brands for that reason.

Every line here was read off PS2015 (PS2015A-26, 7/26) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Minnesota Driver and Vehicle Services 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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