The instruction sheet for New York's secure power of attorney - the document a dealer uses to transfer a vehicle and record the odometer and damage disclosures when the certificate is missing. The MV-93 itself is a controlled form the DMV does not publish, and this six-step sheet is the only public description of how it works.
Written against MV-93.2 (9/21), issued under the secure power of attorney procedure the NYS DMV publishes for licensed dealers. This is a trade procedure, and it is on this site because a seller trading a car in with no certificate will be handed the form and asked to sign it in front of a notary. Knowing what the other five steps are is the difference between signing something and understanding it.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank MV-93.2 from the dmv.ny.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
There is nothing here to fill in. This is a one-page instruction sheet rather than a form: the agency's PDF carries no fillable fields at all, because the document it describes - the MV-93 itself - is a secure controlled form the DMV does not publish and sells to licensed dealers in packages of 25. Every other sample on this site is rendered from the agency's own fillable PDF with each value placed inside a rectangle read from that form's own field definitions, and there is no honest way to show a form we cannot obtain. The six steps above are transcribed from this sheet word for word instead.
| On the form | What to put in it |
|---|---|
| Step 1, seller appoints dealer as attorney-in-fact | The seller completes the entire SELLER section and signs the form in the presence of a notary. The dealer section is left blank. |
| Step 2, request a duplicate title from the DMV | The owner completes an application for a duplicate title, attaches copy 4 of the secure power of attorney and a signed authorisation for the dealer to receive the certificate on the owner's behalf, and posts the package to the Title Bureau in Albany. |
| Step 3, dealership transfers ownership after the title arrives | The dealership employee signs the Seller's Signature block on the certificate followed by the words "as POA for" and the seller's name exactly as it appears on the front of the duplicate, then enters the seller's complete address exactly as it appears on the power of attorney and completes the rest of the transfer section. |
| Step 4, dealership completes the dealer section | The same employee who completed the transfer section on the certificate must complete the dealer section of the power of attorney. The sheet sets that in capitals. |
| Step 5, distribution of the copies | Copy 1 is stapled to the duplicate title, copy 2 is retained by the dealer for five years, and copy 3 is posted to the seller. |
| Step 6, sell the vehicle | And the fee note: the Vehicle and Traffic Law does not require the dealership to absorb the cost of the form, but if it passes the $5 charge on it must appear as a separate line item with the disclaimer THIS IS NOT A DMV FEE. |
Every line here was read off MV-93.2 (9/21) itself — the PDF is here — and off the New York State 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.
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