New Mexico's answer to the slip of the pen, and it is deliberately not a correction fluid: nothing gets fixed on the title itself, because an erasure or strikeover voids the document it lands on. Instead the seller - the form is explicit that the affidavit is made by, and must be signed by, the seller/transferor - explains the error on this separate sworn page, states the correction, and swears no fraud was intended, before a notary. It serves New Mexico titles, out-of-state titles, and manufacturers' certificates of origin alike.
Written against MVD-10019 (Rev 10/10), issued under NMSA 1978 §§66-5-38 and 30-25-1 (the perjury warning printed on the form).
Write the explanation like evidence, because it is. Name the field, quote the wrong entry, state the right one, and stop - the clerk is reconciling two documents, and a sworn page that editorialises invites questions a plain one never raises.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank MVD-10019 from the realfile.tax.newmexico.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our MVD-10019 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.
This is the actual MVD-10019, rendered from the PDF the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, Motor Vehicle Division 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
The sworn frame, completed: the seller named and signed, the notarization dated. The Description of error and Correction of error areas are open space the PDF leaves for handwriting - what goes there for a misspelled buyer surname is two plain lines, the wrong spelling quoted and the right one stated.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
Identify the document
The VIN, then the title number and its state of issue - or the manufacturer's name if the flawed document is an MCO.
Watch out: Out-of-state titles headed for a New Mexico transfer are within this form's reach; the affidavit does not care where the error was made, only who made it.
2
You fill this in
Description of error
The mistake, located precisely: which field, what it currently says.
Watch out: Quote the document. 'Buyer's surname written as Gallego in the assignment' beats 'name wrong' by exactly the margin a clerk needs.
3
You fill this in
Correction of error
What the entry should read - the true name, the true date, the true digits.
Watch out: Give the full corrected value even where the error is one letter. The affidavit is the record; make it complete enough to stand alone.
4
You fill this in
Sign in front of the notary
Your signature above the perjury warning, made in the notary's presence, then the subscribed-and-sworn block completed and sealed.
Watch out: Bring identification the notary will accept, and sign nothing in the car park first - the acknowledgement certifies the signing was witnessed.
5
You fill this in
Staple it to the problem
The affidavit travels with the flawed document into the buyer's title packet.
Watch out: Hand the buyer the affidavit with the title and keep a photograph of both. If the packet is queried, the sworn page is the answer to the query.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
The vehicle whose paperwork carries the error.
Title Number (if title), Title State of Issue
Which document, from which state - this affidavit repairs out-of-state titles being presented for a New Mexico title too.
Manufacturer Name (If MSO/MCO)
For the new-vehicle case, where the flawed document is the manufacturer's certificate and the seller/transferor is the dealer.
The affidavit sentence
I, (seller's printed name), under penalty of perjury hereby swear that I have examined the vehicle identified above, and submit the following explanation for the described error, erasure, strikeover, etc. on the title document, and that no fraud was intended.
Description of error
What is wrong, in plain words: the misspelled surname, the transposed digits, the date written in the wrong box.
Correction of error
What the entry should say - the affirmative version, not just an apology.
Signature of person (seller) submitting affidavit
Above the printed perjury warning naming Sections 66-5-38 and 30-25-1 NMSA 1978.
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN, notary block
Day, month, year, the notary's signature and commission expiry - the signature happens in front of the notary, not before.
What gets this one rejected
•Signed by the buyer. The form restricts itself to the seller/transferor - the person whose pen made the error is the person who can swear to what it should have said.
•Used to fix an odometer entry sideways. A wrong reading is corrected by describing the error and the true figure under oath - not by ticking a different code on a fresh disclosure and hoping the two are never compared.
•An unwitnessed signature. The subscribed-and-sworn block is structural - though the form's own last line allows one substitute: no notary is required if the error was witnessed by an MVD agent, who signs their own line instead.
•A description without a correction. The clerk needs both halves - what is wrong and what is right - to act on the record.
•Several errors compressed into one vague paragraph. Each described error should be identifiable against the document; a general apology corrects nothing.
•Standing in where the division requires the one-and-the-same affidavit instead. A name legitimately spelled two ways is an identity question, not an error - different affidavit, same notary.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It exists because the documents cannot be touched. The prescreen rule - reject any erasures, alterations, type-overs - is absolute, so the correction has to live on its own sworn page. Manager approval plus this affidavit is how a flawed document gets accepted at all.
•MCO errors belong to dealers. On a manufacturer's certificate of origin the transferor is the dealership, and this same form carries their correction - a private seller only ever swears to errors on a title.
