What to do when the number that identifies the car has stopped being readable - corroded off the dash, cut out in a collision repair, or never there in the first place on a homemade trailer. The form runs in three sections: you complete section A, a notary witnesses section B where a replacement number is being asked for, and an authorised law enforcement officer physically inspects the vehicle and completes section C.
Written against Form 5062 (Rev 03-2026), issued under RSMo 301.190. The version of this form on the Department's forms page carries the words SAMPLE and Not For Distribution or Use across it diagonally in grey, and the reason is at the very foot of the sheet: DISTRIBUTION: WHITE - DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; CANARY - INSPECTING LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. It is a two-part carbon set, so the real one comes from the Department or the inspecting agency rather than from a printer.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank Form 5062 from the dor.mo.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This one cannot be shown completed, and the reason is printed on it. The copy the Department publishes carries the words SAMPLE and Not For Distribution or Use diagonally across both pages in grey, because the real Form 5062 is a two-part set: DISTRIBUTION: WHITE - DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; CANARY - INSPECTING LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. The published file has no fillable boxes and the watermark crosses the printed ones, so there is no honest way to show values sitting in them. Obtain the form from the Department or from the inspecting agency.
| On the form | What to put in it |
|---|---|
| Purpose of inspection | Four boxes, select one: title correction or vehicle VIN verification; new identification number plate; replacement identification number plate; trailer with a salvage title. |
| Unit | Motor vehicle, manufactured trailer, homemade trailer, or a manufactured home built prior to 1976 - which needs an inspection from the Public Service Commission instead. |
| Registered owner | Last, first and middle, with a dealer number, county, daytime telephone, street address, city, MO already printed as the state, and a five-cell ZIP. |
| Motor vehicle band | Year, make, vehicle identification number, Missouri title number, licence number, body style, model, colour, cylinders, horsepower and mileage. |
| Replacement VIN block | Only where a replacement is being sought: who the loss of the plate was reported to, the date, and a reason - Lost, Stolen, Mutilated or Destroyed. |
| Section A certification | I certify that the statements above are true and that I am the registered owner of the above described unit(s), with the applicant's signature. |
| Section B - Notary Public | A section of its own rather than a band at the foot, with its own heading and a printed reminder to use rubber stamp in clear area below. |
| Section C - law enforcement | The inspecting officer's certification, the condition of the vehicle, the public VIN, police VIN and the VIN to be replaced in three combed rows, remarks and discrepancies, the agency, file number, officer's signature, telephone and badge number. |
Every line here was read off Form 5062 (Rev 03-2026) 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.
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