How to fill out Nebraska Parts Bill of Sale

The document for selling a car that is no longer a car. Its header states its two lawful uses: transfer of a vehicle when the title has been surrendered to the Nebraska DMV as evidenced by a junked status entry on the vehicle record, or surrendered to any other state's DMV to render the vehicle fit for sale for scrap and parts only. A junked Nebraska vehicle has no certificate to assign - the title died with the surrender - so this bill of sale is the whole conveyance: date, price, both parties, the vehicle, an odometer certification, and a seller's signature the form itself says must be notarized. The closing warning names the price of stretching it: using this form for a vehicle that does not meet the parts-vehicle definition can mean a fine or imprisonment or both, and s. 60-142 makes it a Class III misdemeanor.

Written against Parts Bill of Sale (4/2018), issued under Neb. Rev. Stat. s. 60-142; the sole transfer document for a vehicle with a junked status entry on the record. The gap this form leaves is what happens to the hulk between signature and crusher. The buyer's name and both addresses are your only trail if the shell turns up dumped on a county road with the VIN still readable and traceable to the junked record you once held. Photograph the completed form, keep your copy with the refund paperwork, and prefer buyers with a business name and a yard over a phone number and a trailer.

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

Every line, in the order you meet it

1. 1
   You fill this in

   Confirm the record says junked

   The form's authority is a junked status entry on the vehicle record - the state of the record, not your recollection of surrendering the title.

   Watch out: If you are not certain the surrender was ever processed, ask a county counter before selling. The form used on a vehicle that still has a live title is the misuse its penalty clause describes.

2. 2
   You fill this in

   Date, names and the sum

   The date of sale in its box, then your printed name, the price and the purchaser's printed name in the operative sentence.

   Watch out: Scrap prices move with the metal market, but the figure still gets written - an acknowledged receipt for three hundred dollars beats a handshake for roughly whatever it weighs.

3. 3
   You fill this in

   The vehicle row

   Year, make, model and the full VIN.

   Watch out: Read the VIN off the dash or door plate since there is no title to copy from - it is the number that connects this sale to the junked record.

4. 4
   You fill this in

   Both identity columns, addresses and all

   Your full name, residential address, mailing address, city-state-zip and phone; the purchaser's same five entries in their column.

   Watch out: The purchaser's column is your trace on the hulk. A buyer reluctant to give a residential address is telling you something worth hearing before the winch starts.

5. 5
   You fill this in

   The odometer certification, honestly

   Your printed name, the reading as the dead dial shows it, and an exception box where one is true.

   Watch out: Not actual is the routine answer on a parts vehicle with a broken cluster, and checking it costs nothing here - this record is not going back on a title.

6. 6
   You fill this in

   Sign in front of a notary; the purchaser signs beside you

   The seller's line carries the printed requirement - must be notarized - and any notary or designated county official serves.

   Watch out: Do the notary stop before the buyer arrives with the trailer, or meet at a bank. The stamp is the step this form will not run without.

7. 7
   You fill this in

   Then claim the registration back

   Plates, decals and the registration certificate go to the county treasurer with the Application for Refund within sixty days of the junking.

   Watch out: Dismantlement and junking sit in the refund statute's own list of qualifying events - the money does not care that the car left on a trailer.

What gets this one rejected

• •Using it on a car that still has a title. A vehicle with a live Nebraska certificate transfers on that certificate; this form exists only after the title has been surrendered and the record shows junked status.
• •Using it to sell a runner cheaply. The definition is not about price or condition of sale - it is about a surrendered title and a scrap-and-parts-only record, and the misuse penalty is printed on the form's last lines.
• •An unnotarised seller signature. The label under the line is explicit where the ordinary bill of sale is silent: must be notarized. A parts sale signed at the tailgate without a stamp is not complete.
• •Skipping the odometer block because the car will never drive again. The certification is printed on the form and completed like any other - with the discrepancy box doing honest work on a cluster that died before the engine did.
• •Expecting the buyer to put it back on the road with this paper. A junked vehicle's route back to a title - where one exists at all - runs through inspection and the department, not through a bill of sale.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

• •Junking is close to a one-way door. Surrendering a title for junking is how a vehicle's paper life ends, and the DMV's junked-title process is built on that finality - which is why the record, not the seller's memory, is what this form's header points to: a junked status entry on the vehicle record.
• •The statute prescribes the form's contents. s. 60-142 bars an owner from disposing of a parts vehicle without delivering a bill of sale prescribed by the department, and lists what it may carry: the VIN, year, make and model, both parties' residential and mailing addresses, the acquisition date and the odometer statement of s. 60-192.
• •Both addresses, both parties, on purpose. The residential and mailing address lines exist separately because the statute names both. A yard buying parts vehicles by the row fills these in without being asked; a private buyer may need pointing at them.
• •Your registration money survives the car. Loss of possession by dismantlement or junking is a refund event - the plates, decals and registration certificate go to the county treasurer with the refund application within sixty days, exactly as they would after an ordinary sale.
• •The county did not witness the price, so the notary does. There is no Form 6 counterpart at a treasurer's counter for a parts sale and no title application behind it - the notarised signature is the transaction's only outside witness, which is presumably why Nebraska requires one here and not on the ordinary bill of sale.

Every line here was read off Parts Bill of Sale (4/2018) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles, Driver and Vehicle Records Division 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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