How to fill out Missouri Form 108

The buyer's form, and the form you come back to if your own title ever goes missing. One sheet does three jobs in Missouri: it is the application for a new title after a change of ownership, it is the duplicate-title application when the certificate is lost or ruined, and it is where the buyer records the plates they are transferring. The duplicate half is the only part of it that gets notarised.

Written against Form 108 (Rev 04-2026), issued under RSMo 301.190 and 301.300. Two revisions of this form are in circulation on the Department's own PDF - page one is footed 04-2026 and the instruction page behind it 08-2025. It is the same download; check the code in the footer of the sheet you are holding against the copy on the Department's forms page before you write on a printed one.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank Form 108 from the dor.mo.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank Form 108 — Application for Missouri Title and License PDF at dor.mo.gov · new tab

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is all 2 pages of the actual Form 108, rendered from the PDF the Missouri Department of Revenue 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

Missouri Form 108 filled in as a duplicate-title application: the Title Only and Duplicate boxes ticked, owner Delphine R. Tallmadge of 4127 Wyandotte St, Kansas City, MO 64111 in Jackson County, a 2016 Subaru with vehicle identification number 4S4BSANC1G3271486, an odometer reading of 96428, the surrendered title number recorded, the kind of vehicle entered as P with four cylinders and 26 taxable horsepower, the first lien answered No, and the Lost box ticked in the Duplicate Title Only block. — Page 1 of 2. The duplicate route: TITLE ONLY at the top, DUPLICATE on the type-of-title row, and the reason ticked at the foot beside the only notary block on any Missouri title document.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
The buyer fills this in
What kind of transaction
Trans type at the very top - Renewal/Transfer Plates, Transfer Plates, New Plates or Title Only - then the type of title on the row below.
Watch out: A seller replacing a lost certificate wants Title Only and Duplicate. A buyer titling a car they have just bought wants Original, plus whichever plate option they are taking.
2
The buyer fills this in
The owner block
Legal name, physical street address, county, city, state, ZIP, whether the address is inside city limits, telephone and driver licence number.
Watch out: Only the first 50 positions print on the title, which is the Department's own warning in the block. A long name with a suffix can arrive truncated on the certificate.
3
The buyer fills this in
The vehicle
Year, make, vehicle identification number, body style, colour, fuel, mileage, purchase date, price and the surrendered title number.
Watch out: The mileage box takes the reading from the assigned title, not a fresh look at the dash. Instruction 10 says exactly that: record the odometer reading from the assigned title.
4
The buyer fills this in
Kind of vehicle, cylinders and horsepower
A single letter for the kind of vehicle - P for passenger, T for truck, D for trailer - with the cylinder count and taxable horsepower beside it.
Watch out: Horsepower is what a Missouri passenger plate is priced on, in seven bands from under 12 up to 72 and above. It comes off the face of the old title.
5
The buyer fills this in
First lien, Yes or No
A Yes and a No box, with the lienholder's name, address and lien date if the buyer is financing it.
Watch out: This is the buyer's lender, not yours. A lien printed on the front of the title you handed over is released separately on a notarised Form 4809.
6
The buyer fills this in
Trade-in and licence transfer
The previous vehicle's year, make, vehicle identification number, licence number, horsepower and title number.
Watch out: Where plates are moving from another car, this is the block that moves them, and the transfer fee is two dollars.
7
The buyer fills this in
One signature
Under the printed certification, with the date beside it.
Watch out: One owner must sign the application for title, in capitals, in the Department's own instruction 21 - however many names are in the owner block.
8
You fill this in
Duplicate Title Only - the reason
Lost, Stolen, Mutilated, or Never Received - Lost in Mail. Only completed where a duplicate is what you are asking for.
Watch out: Mutilated means the ruined title has to be attached. That includes a certificate spoiled by a wrong entry on the assignment, which is how most Missouri sellers end up on this half of the form.
9
You fill this in
The notary block
Tucked into the Duplicate Title Only block rather than given a band of its own: a seal box, the jurisdiction, the sworn-before-me line and the officer's details.
Watch out: This is the only notarisation anywhere in an ordinary Missouri sale, and it belongs to the duplicate application alone. A license office will do it at the counter for two dollars.
10
The buyer fills this in
Fees, and what they add up to
The ruled column down the right-hand edge, completed by the license office.
Watch out: $8.50 for the title and $9.00 to process it, plus 4.225 per cent state sales tax and the local rate, plus the plate fee. The title penalty box above them is the one nobody wants filled in.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Trans type and type of title	Two rows of boxes at the top. Renewal/Transfer Plates, Transfer Plates, New Plates or Title Only across one; then Original, Duplicate, Non-Negot., Prior Salvage Corrected, Mechanic Lien, Salvage, Dup. Salvage, Junk and Dup. Junk across the other, with Transfer on Death and Tenants in Common beside them.
Owner block	Legal name last, first, middle - and the note that only the first 50 positions will print on the title, with any transfer-on-death beneficiaries named in the same space. A physical street address that cannot be a PO box or rural route, county, city, state, ZIP, whether the address is inside or outside city limits, telephone, e-mail and a driver licence or federal employer number.
Vehicle block	Year, make, vehicle identification number, body style, colour, fuel code, whether the gross weight rating is over 16,000 pounds, mileage or an exempt code, purchase date, price, rebate, trade-in allowance, kind of vehicle, whether it is new on a manufacturer's statement of origin or used on a title, the surrendered title number and state, and the taxable horsepower.
Lien and mail-to	First lien Yes or No with the lienholder's name, address and lien date; a second lien block; and a Mail To box for sending the title somewhere other than the owner's address.
Trade-in and licence transfer	Year, make, vehicle identification number, licence number, expiry year, horsepower and title number of the vehicle whose plates or tax credit are being carried across.
Signature	One line, above the certification: I CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY THAT THE FACTS HEREIN ARE TRUE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE - and the printed instruction that one owner must sign the application for title.
Duplicate Title Only	Four reasons - Lost, Stolen, Mutilated (attach mutilated title) and Never Received - Lost in Mail - and, next to them, the notary block that only this half of the form uses.
Fees column	A ruled column down the right-hand side that a license office completes: licence fee, transfer fee, title penalty, state and local tax, processing fee and total.

What gets this one rejected

•A post office box in the street address. The instruction is that you must provide your actual physical street address in order to determine the correct tax rate, and that a PO box can only be used as a mail-to address.
•A duplicate application with an empty notary block. The applicant's signature must be witnessed by a notary public if applying for a duplicate title, and the notarisation applies to the applicant's signature rather than to anything else on the sheet.
•A mutilated title left at home. Where the reason given is Mutilated, the printed instruction is to attach the mutilated title to the application.
•Anything incomplete. Printed in capitals near the foot: ALL INCORRECT OR INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL BE REJECTED - and where the title is going to a lienholder, the rejected application goes to the lienholder rather than back to the applicant.
•A duplicate application with a lien still showing and no release attached. If the loan was satisfied on or after 1 July 2003, a notarised Form 4809 has to come with it.
•More than one character per box in the handwritten vehicle identification number. If you hand write the application, record only one character in each block within the Vehicle Identification Number.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•Thirty days, then $25 a month. In bold at the foot of the instructions: a title penalty fee of $25.00 for each 30 days of delinquency, not to exceed a total of $200.00, shall be imposed for failure to apply for a certificate of title within 30 days after purchase.
•One owner signs. Whatever the number of names on the application. The instruction is numbered 21 and printed in capitals.
•Transfer on death is set up here, not on the assignment. Naming a beneficiary means ticking the TOD block and writing the beneficiary's name in the owner block. The Department's titling manual adds that the letters TOD and the beneficiaries' names do not have to appear on the title assignment.

Every line here was read off Form 108 (Rev 04-2026) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Missouri Department of Revenue pages. This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ, theirs governs.

Back to all Missouri seller paperwork, or what selling a car in Missouri involves.

How to fill out Missouri Form 108

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

What kind of transaction

The owner block

The vehicle

Kind of vehicle, cylinders and horsepower

First lien, Yes or No

Trade-in and licence transfer

One signature

Duplicate Title Only - the reason

The notary block

Fees, and what they add up to

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

Want the paperwork handled instead?

Or send the details — we'll come to you