How to fill out Ohio BMV 3772

Not your form, but the one you sign when you sell or trade to an Ohio dealership and the title is electronic. It is three documents in one: a power of attorney appointing the dealer to execute the assignment, an attestation of mileage and identity, and the dealer's own application for a certificate of title. The seller's part is a single block at the very bottom.

Written against BMV 3772 (12/25), issued under Ohio Revised Code 4505.032 and 4517. A dealership will hand you this already half filled in. Read the price line, the mileage row and the name written into the attorney-in-fact sentence before you sign the block at the foot - those are the three things on it that are yours to be sure of.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank BMV 3772 from the dam.assets.ohio.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.

Every line, in the order you meet it

1. 1
   Dealers only

   Who the transferee is

   The dealership's printed name and address, beside the date the vehicle was delivered and the price.

   Watch out: If that block names a person rather than a business, you are on the wrong form - a private sale of an electronic title is BMV 3770.

2. 2
   You fill this in

   Current titled owner and identification

   Your name as the title holds it, the state that issued your photo identification and the number from it.

   Watch out: The dealer is attesting to your identity as well as to the mileage. Expect them to want the licence in hand, not the number read out.

3. 3
   Dealers only

   The vehicle and its current title type

   Control number, year, make, model, body type, title number and the vehicle identification number, with a tick for Regular, Salvage or Off Road.

   Watch out: Regular is only correct if the car has never been branded. A salvage or off-road history that gets ticked as Regular is a misstatement on a document you have also signed.

4. 4
   You fill this in

   The odometer row

   Six boxes for the reading, NO TENTHS MILES, and two exception statements underneath.

   Watch out: This is your certification even though the dealer is holding the pen. Read the digits back before the form leaves the desk.

5. 5
   You fill this in

   The attorney-in-fact sentence

   You appoint the named dealer to execute any and all application for assignment of certificate of title for the vehicle, attest to the odometer reading, and warrant the title to be free of all liens.

   Watch out: Three separate promises in one sentence, and the third is the one to think about. If a lender was ever on this title, check the discharge and cancellation are both recorded before you warrant anything.

6. 6
   You fill this in

   The transferor block

   Your printed name, your signature and your address, at the very foot of the page.

   Watch out: That is the end of your involvement, and it is worth photographing the completed form before it goes into the dealership's file - Ohio gives a private seller no notice of sale to keep as a record.

What gets this one rejected

• •A private buyer's name in the transferee block. This form exists for a transfer to or from a licensed motor vehicle or watercraft dealer, and it says so in its own opening paragraph.
• •Signing the power of attorney line before the dealer's name is written into it. An attorney-in-fact appointment with the name left blank is a signed blank cheque over your title.
• •A dealer permit number missing. The clerk is being asked to accept a dealer's application, and the permit number is how it is identified as one.
• •Treating it as a bill of sale. It transfers ownership and applies for a title; it is not a receipt, and it does not record what you were paid unless the price block is completed.
• •Using it for a private sale between two individuals. That is BMV 3770, and the two forms are not interchangeable.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

• •A dealer's signature does not need a notary and yours does not either, here. The exemption at R.C. 4505.063 covers a licensed dealer who is the owner or purchaser. The practical effect on this form is that it is completed across a dealership desk rather than at a notary's.
• •Your attestation of mileage travels with it. The certification above the dealer's application is yours: the odometer now reads, and is the actual mileage of the vehicle unless one of the following statements is checked.

Every line here was read off BMV 3772 (12/25) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Ohio Bureau 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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