How to fill out Nevada VP 136, the Power of Attorney
Lets one named person sign title and registration paperwork in place of the registered owner. This is the form for selling a car when the owner cannot be at the table — deployed, hospitalised, working out of state, or simply three time zones from the buyer.
Written against VP 136 (6/2023), issued under the Nevada DMV's own vehicle programs authority; the form itself cites no statute and neither do we.
June 2023 revision. One line on this form causes more rejected transfers than the rest of it put together: it may not be used to disclose the odometer reading. The owner has to sign the odometer line themselves.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank VP 136 from the dmv.nv.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our VP 136 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.
This is the actual VP 136, rendered from the PDF the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles 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
VP136 completed by an owner in Reno appointing a relative to sign for a 2009 Mini Cooper. Note the bold line above the identity block: this document cannot carry the odometer reading.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
That the undersigned
The registered owner's full legal name — the person handing over the authority.
Watch out: Match the title exactly. If the title says Maria E. Delgado, this is not the place to modernise it to Maria Delgado.
2
You fill this in
County and state of the owner
Where the owner lives, not where the car is.
Watch out: Nevada residents write their county — Washoe, Clark, Elko. The state box is not automatically Nevada; an owner posted out of state writes where they actually are.
3
You fill this in
Year, make and model
The vehicle the power is limited to.
Watch out: Copy from the title, not from memory. This form does nothing for a car it does not describe.
4
You fill this in
Vehicle Identification Number
The full VIN on one line.
Watch out: Seventeen characters, checked twice. A VIN that does not match the record makes the power useless at the counter and there is no fixing it afterwards — changes are not allowed once it is signed.
5
You fill this in
Does hereby make, constitute, and appoint
The person receiving the authority — the attorney in fact.
Watch out: One person, by name. Whoever writes their name here is the only person who can sign for the owner, so it has to be whoever will physically be at the DMV or the handover.
6
You fill this in
County and state of the attorney in fact
Where that person lives.
Watch out: They do not have to live in the same county, or in Nevada at all.
7
You fill this in
Full legal name
The owner's name again, split across first, middle and last.
Watch out: This block identifies the person granting the power, not the one receiving it. It catches people out because it sits below the appointment paragraph.
8
You fill this in
Licence number, date of birth or FEIN
Nevada driver's licence or ID card number; date of birth if there is none; FEIN for a business.
Watch out: A business granting the power uses its FEIN and names the authorized representative — a company cannot sign for itself.
9
You fill this in
Physical address
Street, city, state and ZIP where the owner actually lives.
Watch out: A PO box is not a physical address. That belongs on the mailing line underneath.
10
You fill this in
Mailing address
Where post should go, if it differs.
Watch out: "Same as physical" is fine and clearer than leaving it empty, which reads as an oversight.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
The grantor
The registered owner's name, and the county and state they live in.
The vehicle
Year, make, model and VIN — the car the power is limited to.
The attorney in fact
The person being given the authority, and their county and state.
Grantor's identity block
Full legal name, Nevada licence or ID number or date of birth, physical and mailing address.
Notarization
Signed in front of a notary or an authorized Nevada DMV representative.
What gets this one rejected
•Using it to sign the odometer disclosure. The form says in bold that it may not be used for that, and a 2011-or-newer vehicle needs a real mileage entry from the owner.
•Leaving the vehicle blank to make it reusable. The power is written against one described car; a blank VIN is not a broader power, it is an incomplete form.
•The grantor signing before reaching the notary. The notary is swearing they watched it happen.
•A photocopy. Signatures must be originals, and changes may not be made once it is signed and witnessed.
•Assuming it survives the owner. A power of attorney ends at death — from that point the estate forms take over, not this one.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It names one attorney in fact, not a category of people. Whoever is going to sign at the counter has to be the person written on this form.
•It covers the certificate of title and the registration certificate for the vehicle described, which is what a private sale needs.
•If the DMV needs to see the power is a true copy of an original, that is a separate document — Affidavit of Acknowledgment for a Power of Attorney, VP 249.
Every line here was read off VP 136 (6/2023) itself —
the PDF is here — and off the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles pages.
This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ,
theirs governs.
