How to fill out Montana MV100

Montana's all-purpose affidavit, and the form that decides whether a small mistake costs you a replacement title or nothing. The manual lists nine jobs for it, from explaining a crossed-out entry to consenting to a name being added to a title, and one that is purely a seller's: relinquishing a classic-car or personalized plate so it can follow the car to the buyer. What it cannot do is rescue an erasure - the manual is explicit that an error statement may only be used when the previous information can still be read, and that a complete erasure means the title is void and a replacement must be obtained.

Written against MV100 (6/26), issued under prescribed by the Motor Vehicle Division; signed under MCA 45-7-203. The statement block is the whole form, so write it as a fact rather than as a request. The manual's tests are about content - does it explain the error, does it carry a complete vehicle description, is it signed by the right person - and a sentence that says please fix this satisfies none of them.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank MV100 from the mvdmt.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our MV100 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank MV100 — Statement of Fact PDF at mvdmt.gov · new tab Step 2 · how to fill it in Our filled-in MV100 guide PDF · print and keep beside you

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual MV100, rendered from the PDF the Montana Department of Justice, Motor Vehicle Division, Vehicle Services Bureau 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

A completed Montana MV100 Statement of Fact. Section 1 names Delphine R. Kowalchuk with her email and phone, the vehicle identification number of a 2013 Toyota, and the Montana title number. The statement block reads that on the date of sale she relinquishes all rights to the Montana personalized licence plate currently assigned to the vehicle, authorises its transfer to the purchaser Wendell A. Hochstetler, and retains no interest in the plate. Section 2 is signed and dated 08/18/2026. The business name field and the one-and-the-same name line are shaded grey. — Rendered from the division's own PDF and completed for the one job on this form that is purely a seller's: relinquishing a personalized plate so it can go with the car. On any ordinary Montana sale the plates come off and stay off, and this statement is what makes the exception lawful.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
You fill this in
Section 1: who is making the statement
Your name, and the business name only if a company owns the vehicle.
Watch out: For an error statement this must be the person who actually made the error. Somebody else explaining it is a letter, not a statement of error.
2
You fill this in
The vehicle, described completely
VIN or hull number, year, make and the title number.
Watch out: A complete vehicle description is one of the manual's explicit requirements for an error statement. Leaving the title number blank is how a statement ends up attached to no record at all.
3
You fill this in
The statement itself
One block of free text carrying the whole substance of the form.
Watch out: Say what happened and what should be true, in plain sentences. If it is a relinquishment of plates, name the plate and the person it is going to; if it is an error, say what was written, what it should say, and why.
4
You fill this in
Section 2: sign and date it
One signature under MCA 45-7-203, unsworn falsification to authorities.
Watch out: No notary. Montana removed the acknowledgement requirement from title transfers in October 2025, and this form has never carried one - the criminal certification is what stands behind it.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
The instruction list	The nine uses the division prints on the form itself: a no-interest statement, a letter of explanation, a statement of error, a letter of consent, a request to update address, a no security interest or lien to file statement, a special mailing authorization, a cancellation of sale statement, a relinquishment statement, a legal signature statement and a one-and-the-same statement.
Section 1, Required Information	Name of person making the statement, name of firm, business or corporation where relevant, email, phone, the vehicle or vessel identification number, year, make, title number, and a line for the name as it is to be entered on the title where this is a one-and-the-same statement.
Statement	One large free-text block. Everything the form does happens here, and the manual's requirements for each kind of statement are requirements about what this box says.
Section 2, Certify	The signature and date, under MCA 45-7-203, certifying the statements are true, that the signer is the person named on the form, and that a business or trust signer has full authority.

What gets this one rejected

•An error statement covering something that can no longer be read. The manual: an error statement may only be used when the previous information can still be read; if the information is completely crossed off or unreadable, a new form is required.
•A statement of fact used on an odometer statement or a VIN inspection. The manual bars it outright - if an error is made on one of those, a new form must be submitted.
•An error statement signed by somebody other than the person who made the error. The manual requires it to explain the error, include a complete vehicle description, and be signed by the person making the error.
•A no-interest statement filed after the lien is already on the system. The manual: a no interest statement cannot be used when a security interest or lien has been entered into the motor vehicle system - in that situation a release is required.
•A no-interest statement used to undo a sale. It cannot be used to remove a Montana resident's ownership interest once the vehicle has been sold to them.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•It is how a classic or personalized plate moves. The division's selling page: on a classic car or for personalized plates, if you want to transfer the plates to the buyer you must complete Statement of Fact (MV100) to relinquish all rights to the plates - and the registration fees alone will not transfer them.
•A one-and-the-same statement links versions of a name. For a person or business appearing on title documents in several forms - Bill Smith, W.A. Smith, William Smith Jr - completed by the actual person or an agent of the business whose name is in question.
•It authorises an unusual mailing address. The manual: use a Statement of Fact to authorize the mailing of the title to a temporary out-of-state special mailing address.
•It can stand in for a NADA value. On a break/bond application, where no national appraisal guide is available for the vehicle, the MV100 certifies that and carries the value as determined by the applicant.
•A neat deletion can survive with one attached. The manual will take more than one deletion if they are neat, everything is legible and there are supporting documents explaining them - but if the deletions make the application questionable, the title is void.

Every line here was read off MV100 (6/26) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Montana Department of Justice, Motor Vehicle Division, Vehicle Services Bureau 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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How to fill out Montana MV100

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Section 1: who is making the statement

The vehicle, described completely

The statement itself

Section 2: sign and date it

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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