How to fill out North Dakota SFN 2964

North Dakota's answer to a slip of the pen, and the only one it has. The certificate voids itself for an erasure, an alteration or a mutilation, so there is no crossing out and initialling here - there is this sworn statement instead. Its opening instruction decides who signs: if the error concerns the buyer's name, the date of sale, the selling price or the odometer reading, the seller completes and signs it. For every other error or alteration, it is signed by the individual who originally made the mark. The Registration Manual adds that a defaced certificate needs a notarised affidavit stating the reason for the defacement as well.

Written against SFN 2964 (4-2026), issued under North Dakota Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division; the notarised affidavit the Registration Manual requires for a defaced or altered certificate under NDCC 39-05-09.1 and 39-15-11. The odometer footnotes on this form are the trap. If the wrong mileage is sitting on an assignment that has not yet been processed, this statement plus the department's secure disclosure fixes it. If the wrong mileage has already been printed onto a new certificate, this form cannot touch it - that is the odometer correction, with the original mis-issued title, service records from before and after, and its own notary. Work out which of the two you are in before you book the appointment.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank SFN 2964 from the dot.nd.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our SFN 2964 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank SFN 2964 — Statement of Error, Correction, or Alteration PDF at dot.nd.gov · new tab Step 2 · how to fill it in Our filled-in SFN 2964 guide PDF · print and keep beside you

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual SFN 2964, rendered from the PDF the North Dakota Department of Transportation, 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

A completed North Dakota SFN 2964, Statement of Error, Correction, or Alteration. The vehicle identification number and title number are entered across the top and the name of seller reads Marlys J. Thorsrud. Of the five correction options only The correct Selling Price is ticked, with the entry $11,650.00; the buyer name, odometer, date of sale and Other options are shaded grey. The name is printed and the legal signature line signed. The Acknowledgement block beneath is shaded grey. — Completed for the simplest case a seller can be in - one figure wrong in the assignment, corrected by the person entitled to correct it. Four of the five options are grey because only one entry is being changed, and the acknowledgement block is grey because the notary owns it. The seller named here does not exist and neither does the price being corrected.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
You fill this in
Vehicle Identification Number and Title Number
The two entries that attach the correction to a specific record.
Watch out: Copy them from the certificate that carries the error, not from your own notes. This sheet and that certificate arrive together.
2
You fill this in
Name of Seller(s)/Transferor
The seller named, exactly as the assignment names them.
Watch out: This line identifies the seller whether or not the seller is the person signing at the bottom - on a buyer's error, the seller is still named here.
3
You fill this in
The correct Name of Buyer(s)/Transferee
One of the four corrections the form reserves to the seller, with the corrected name on the line beside it.
Watch out: A misspelled buyer's name is worth correcting before the application goes in rather than after - the new certificate prints from what the assignment says.
4
You fill this in
The odometer option, and its two footnotes
Tick it where the reading is altered or incorrect and write the correct reading. The footnotes then add the department's secure disclosure, or send you to the odometer correction form if a title has already been printed wrong.
Watch out: The secure disclosure is not downloadable - the department issues it on request. Ring the Motor Vehicle Division before you send this form, not after they ask for it.
5
You fill this in
The correct Date of Sale, and the correct Selling Price
The other two seller corrections, each with an entry line.
Watch out: The price feeds the buyer's excise tax and the date feeds their thirty-day clock, so a correction to either changes what the counter asks for. Tell the buyer before they turn up.
6
Somebody else fills this in
Other, with the explanation
For anything not in the four named categories - and signed by whoever originally made the error or alteration rather than by the seller.
Watch out: This is also where the reason for a defacement goes, which the Registration Manual requires alongside the correction. Explain what happened and what the entry should say.
7
You fill this in
Name printed, and the Legal Signature
Print and sign under the certification that the information is correct to the best of your knowledge, under penalties of perjury - before a Notary Public or Authorized Officer.
Watch out: Take photo identification to the notary. The officer is acknowledging your signature, and a name that does not match your identification stops the appointment.
8
Somebody else fills this in
The Acknowledgement block
State, county, sworn date, notary's printed name, stamp, signature and commission expiration date.
Watch out: Every line belongs to the officer. Nothing here is a form-filling exercise you can prepare in advance.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Vehicle Identification Number and Title Number	The record the correction attaches to, across the top.
Name of Seller(s)/Transferor	The seller identified by name, whether or not the seller is the person signing.
Check the correction(s) that need to be applied	Five options, each with its own entry line: the correct name of the buyer or transferee, the odometer reading being altered or incorrect with the correct reading, the correct date of sale, the correct selling price, and Other with space to explain the error or alteration and what correction should be applied.
The odometer footnotes	Two of them, under the odometer option. A separate conforming secure odometer disclosure is also required. And if the title was issued with an incorrect odometer reading, an odometer correction form must be completed instead.
The certification	Under penalties of perjury, I certify that the information on this request is correct to the best of my knowledge.
Name (Type or Print) and Legal Signature	With the same instruction the department's other affidavits carry - sign before a Notary Public or Authorized Officer.
Acknowledgement	State and county, the day the statement was sworn, and four lines belonging to the officer: printed name, stamp, signature, commission expiry.

What gets this one rejected

•The wrong person signing. The four entries reserved to the seller are named on the form itself; anything else has to be signed by whoever made the mark, which is often the buyer.
•Correcting an odometer reading that has already been printed on a new certificate. The footnote sends that case to the odometer correction form instead, and this sheet cannot do it.
•An odometer correction sent without the secure disclosure. The form asks for a separate conforming secure odometer disclosure alongside it, and the department does not publish that document - it has to be requested.
•Ticking Other with no explanation. The option's own label requires the error or alteration to be explained and the correction to be stated, both.
•Signing it before reaching the notary. It is an affidavit under penalties of perjury, and an unwitnessed signature makes it an ordinary letter.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•It corrects the paperwork, not the pen stroke. Nothing on the certificate gets erased. This statement travels with the marked document and tells the department what the entry should have said.
•Four entries belong to the seller, and they are the four that matter. The buyer's name, the date of sale, the selling price and the odometer reading are the entries a seller makes in Part 1, and they are exactly the four the form reserves to the seller's signature.
•A defacement needs a reason as well as a correction. The Registration Manual requires a notarised affidavit stating a reason for the defacement or alteration in addition to this form. The Other block is where that reason is written.
•Correcting is slower than starting again. Between the notary appointment, the secure disclosure where mileage is involved and the department's review, a corrected assignment is rarely the quick route. On a loose part, a fresh sheet is faster.

Every line here was read off SFN 2964 (4-2026) itself — the PDF is here — and off 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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How to fill out North Dakota SFN 2964

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Vehicle Identification Number and Title Number

Name of Seller(s)/Transferor

The correct Name of Buyer(s)/Transferee

The odometer option, and its two footnotes

The correct Date of Sale, and the correct Selling Price

Other, with the explanation

Name printed, and the Legal Signature

The Acknowledgement block

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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