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How to fill out North Dakota SFN 18773

The one North Dakota form a seller can genuinely need and cannot download. It is a federally secure document, and the department does not publish it: the Registration Manual names it and then tells you where it lives, in brackets, in the middle of a sentence - contact MVD for form. Three other forms send you to it. The loose Part 1 and the dealer's Part 2 both bar themselves from odometer-required vehicles and name this as the substitute; the statement of error requires a separate conforming secure odometer disclosure alongside it; and the odometer correction lists it as document two of five when the error happened during an ownership change.

Written against SFN 18773 (not published online), issued under North Dakota Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division; the federal odometer disclosure the Registration Manual applies under NDCC 39-05-05(1)(g). This is the gap to plan around if your car is model year 2011 or newer and its certificate's own Part 1 has been spoiled. Every published alternative excludes odometer-required vehicles by name, which leaves one route, and that route runs through a telephone call to Bismarck. Sort it before you advertise the car rather than on the day somebody arrives with cash.

There is no download link for the SFN 18773 here because there is not one anywhere - NDDOT Motor Vehicle Division does not publish it. The card below explains where it does come from.

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Why there is no completed SFN 18773 here

There is no published PDF to fill in. This is a federally secure form that the North Dakota Department of Transportation does not put in its forms index or anywhere else on dot.nd.gov, and the Registration Manual's own instruction for obtaining it is to contact the Motor Vehicle Division - so showing it completed would mean showing something we had not read.

At a glance

What goes where

On the formWhat to put in it
Why there is no field list hereWe do not print a field-by-field walkthrough of a form we have not read. It is not in the department's forms index - we enumerated all 337 rows - and it is not published anywhere on dot.nd.gov, so the only honest description is the one the department gives it.
What the department says it is forThe Registration Manual's odometer section: if you sell a motor vehicle, you must complete the odometer disclosure on the certificate of title for the vehicle, and Reassignment/Odometer Disclosure (SFN 18773, contact MVD for form) may be used.
When the other forms send you to itThe loose Part 1 and the dealer's Part 2 each carry the same note - this form cannot be used for odometer required vehicles, use the secure reassignment and odometer disclosure.
Why it is secureIt is the counterpart of the secure power of attorney the manual describes: where a federal odometer certification is involved, the department will not accept a photocopy, and originals with controlled stock are the point.

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

There is no SFN 18773 to read: NDDOT Motor Vehicle Division does not publish it, so nothing on this page describes its contents beyond what the agency itself says about it — that is here — and what is on the North Dakota Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle 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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