How to fill out North Dakota SFN 60689

A short form that answers whichever of four awkward questions a title application raises, chosen by one row of boxes at the top: Title Only or Registration Start, Low Purchase Price, Plate/Credit Transfer, or Other. For a seller the third is the one that matters. When you take a plate off a car you have sold and put it on the next one, the department needs to know which plate, which vehicle it came off and the date that vehicle was sold - and it warns on the form what happens if the answer is untrue: the credit being transferred from this plate will be paid back to Motor Vehicle Division in full and additional registration fees will be collected.

Written against SFN 60689 (4-2026), issued under North Dakota Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division; the plate credit it supports is NDCC 39-04-36, and the form cites NDCC 39-04-18 on its own face. The comments block is doing more work here than it looks. The department is being asked to move money from one registration record to another on the strength of a statement you signed, and it says on the form that it may ask for additional documentation at any time. Name the plate, the vehicle it came off, that vehicle's VIN and title number, and the date it was sold - and keep the bill of sale that supports all of it, because North Dakota gives you no other record of the sale.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank SFN 60689 from the dot.nd.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our SFN 60689 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank SFN 60689 — Statement of Fact PDF at dot.nd.gov · new tab Step 2 · how to fill it in Our filled-in SFN 60689 guide PDF · print and keep beside you

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual SFN 60689, 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 60689, Statement of Fact. In Use of Form the Plate/Credit Transfer box is ticked and the other three are shaded grey. The vehicle block names a 2014 Honda Pilot EX-L with its vehicle identification number, a purchase price of 9,900.00 and a purchase date of 08/26/2026. The comments record that the licence credit is being moved from plate 481 BKR, removed from a 2017 Chevrolet Equinox LT with its VIN and title number, sold to a private buyer on 21 August 2026, and that the plate is attached to the application. The Delivered box is ticked. The plate transfer statement carries plate 481 BKR with a sold date of 08/21/2026. The form is signed by Marlys J. Thorsrud and dated 08/26/2026. — Completed for the commonest thing a North Dakota seller does after a sale: moving the plate they were required to remove onto the car they bought next. Note that the vehicle block describes the replacement vehicle, not the one that was sold - the sold car appears only in the comments and in the transfer statement. Both vehicles, the plate and the person moving it were invented for this example.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
You fill this in
Use of Form: Plate/Credit Transfer
One box of four. The third is the seller's - moving a plate and its unused licence fee onto a replacement vehicle.
Watch out: Low Purchase Price is the neighbouring box and a different conversation entirely: it explains a price below guide value rather than moving a credit.
2
You fill this in
Year, Make, Model and VIN
The replacement vehicle - the car the plate is going on to.
Watch out: This trips people up. The vehicle block is about the car being titled now; the one you sold appears further down and in the comments.
3
You fill this in
Title Number, Purchase Price and Purchase Date
The replacement vehicle's details as they will appear on its own application.
Watch out: These should match the title application this statement travels with. Two different purchase prices in one envelope is the fastest way to be asked for documentation.
4
You fill this in
Comments
The free-text block tying the two vehicles together - which plate, off which car, sold when.
Watch out: Include the sold vehicle's VIN and title number. Nothing else on the form carries them, and the department is matching two registration records.
5
You fill this in
Hauled, Towed or Delivered
How the vehicle described at the top got to where it is now, for a car not yet driven on North Dakota roads.
Watch out: It sits above the acknowledgement that the vehicle cannot be driven without being licensed. Answer it honestly - the five-day allowance a buyer gets is a different rule and does not apply here.
6
You fill this in
The plate number
The plate being transferred, in the statement that reads I wish to transfer plate(s) to the above referenced vehicle.
Watch out: If the plate itself has gone missing, deal with that first through the duplicate credentials application - the statute still requires you to use the plate you removed.
7
You fill this in
The date the sold vehicle was sold
The second half of the transfer statement: the vehicle from which the plates were removed was sold on this date.
Watch out: Credit runs from the month after the transfer, so this date is money. It must match the date of sale on the certificate you assigned.
8
You fill this in
Printed Name, telephone, signature and date
No notary here - a printed name, a number, a signature and a date finish it.
Watch out: Read the warning immediately above the signature. A false statement means the whole credit is repaid to the Motor Vehicle Division and additional registration fees are collected on top.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Use of Form	Four boxes across the top - Title Only/Registration Start, Low Purchase Price, Plate/Credit Transfer, and Other with a space to specify.
Vehicle identification	Year, make, model and vehicle identification number of the vehicle the statement is about - which on a credit transfer is the replacement vehicle, not the one you sold.
Title Number, Purchase Price, Purchase Date	Three entries for the vehicle being titled.
Comments	The free-text block, and where the story of the transfer goes.
The undertaking	I understand that the vehicle cannot be driven without being licensed per NDCC 39-04-18.
How was the above described vehicle transferred to where it is now?	Hauled, Towed or Delivered - relevant where the vehicle has not been driven on North Dakota roads.
The vehicle HAS NOT been driven on ND Roadways and I wish to TITLE THE VEHICLE ONLY	A tick box for the title-only route.
The vehicle is NOW ready to be driven on ND Roadways as of	A date, for the registration-start route.
I wish to transfer plate(s) to the above referenced vehicle	The credit transfer statement, followed by the two entries it needs: the vehicle from which the plates were removed was sold on this date.
The false-statement warning	That the credit will be repaid in full and additional registration fees collected, and that at the Division's discretion additional documentation may be requested at any time.
Printed Name, Telephone Number, Signature, Date	No notary block - this is one of the department's unsworn forms.
PENALTY	Any person making any false statement on this form for which another penalty is not specifically provided is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

What gets this one rejected

•Describing the sold vehicle in the vehicle block. The block at the top is the vehicle being titled - the replacement. The sold vehicle belongs in the plate transfer statement and the comments.
•A plate number with no sale date, or a sale date with no plate number. The transfer statement asks for both, because the credit is calculated from the months left on that plate's registration after the month of the transfer.
•Two boxes ticked in Use of Form. One statement, one purpose - a sheet doing two jobs is a sheet the counter has to unpick.
•Claiming a credit from a plate you did not remove. The statute requires the transferor to have removed the plates from the vehicle at the time it was transferred, and the credit belongs to that person.
•Leaving the comments empty on a credit transfer. Nothing on the form connects the two vehicles except what you write there.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•One replacement vehicle, and any excess is lost. The Registration Manual is blunt about the limits: available credit can be used towards only one replacement vehicle, if the credit exceeds the registration fees the balance is lost, a credit transfer fee is due, and there are no refunds available.
•You must use the plate, credit or no credit. NDCC 39-04-36(2) requires the transferor to use a number plate previously removed regardless of whether there is any licence fee credit remaining on it. This is not an option to weigh up.
•Only licence fees move. The manual excludes the public transportation fund charge, the abandoned motor vehicle disposal fee and the motorcycle education fee from the transfer. Credits are calculated from the month after the plates are transferred.
•A family credit can go the other way. One unusual provision worth knowing: a licence fee credit can be transferred from the seller to the buyer where the seller is the spouse, a sibling, or a lineal ancestor or descendant of the buyer.
•The plate stays off until the registration card arrives. The manual's own warning: transferred plates may not be displayed on the replacement vehicle until the vehicle has been registered with the Motor Vehicle Division and a new registration card has been received by the owner.

Every line here was read off SFN 60689 (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 60689

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Use of Form: Plate/Credit Transfer

Year, Make, Model and VIN

Title Number, Purchase Price and Purchase Date

Comments

Hauled, Towed or Delivered

The plate number

The date the sold vehicle was sold

Printed Name, telephone, signature and date

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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