How to fill out Oklahoma 773-LP

The only plate form a private Oklahoma owner is likely to meet, and it does the opposite of what most people expect. Because a plate here belongs to a person rather than to a vehicle, moving a car within a family can leave the tag registered to the wrong one - so this sheet conveys ownership of the plate while it stays where it is. Its own restriction is printed at the top: to utilize this form the license plate must remain on the same vehicle, and completion of this form does not convey ownership of the vehicle.

Written against 773-LP (Rev 01/2024), issued under 47 O.S. 1112.2. Selling a car to a stranger needs none of this. Unbolt the plate, keep it, and take it with you to register whatever you buy next - Service Oklahoma will credit the time left on the tags. This form only appears when a vehicle moves within a family or into a trust and everybody wants the plate to stay on it.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank 773-LP from the oklahoma.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.

Every line, in the order you meet it

1. 1
   You fill this in

   I hereby affirm ownership of license plate

   The plate number, in the first box of the affirmation.

   Watch out: Copy it off the plate itself rather than off a renewal notice. A tag that has been replaced since is a different number.

2. 2
   You fill this in

   is being transferred to/from

   The other party - whoever the plate is coming from or going to.

   Watch out: The wording covers both directions because the affiant may be either side of the transfer. Make it clear in the surrounding fields which of the two this is.

3. 3
   You fill this in

   and is remaining on vehicle: Model Year, Make, VIN

   The vehicle the plate is staying on.

   Watch out: If the plate is not staying on this vehicle, this is the wrong form. That single condition is printed above everything else on the sheet.

4. 4
   You fill this in

   Who is my: one of six boxes

   Late spouse, spouse, parent or step-parent, child or step-child, revocable trust, or sole proprietor business.

   Watch out: Exactly one tick. The six are the entire permission and there is no box for anything outside them.

5. 5
   You fill this in

   Signature of Affiant and Date

   Signed under a declaration made under penalties of perjury, and dated.

   Watch out: Sign it in front of the notary. Oklahoma applies the same rule here as it does to a title assignment.

6. 6
   Somebody else fills this in

   The notary block

   Jurisdiction, the date of the swearing, when the notary's commission runs out, a signature and a seal impression.

   Watch out: Take identification and take the plate's registration if you have it. The notary is witnessing you; the licensed operator will want to see what you are talking about.

What gets this one rejected

• •A plate that is moving to a different vehicle. The restriction at the top is that the plate must remain on the same vehicle, and moving a plate between your own cars is a registration transaction rather than this.
• •No relationship box ticked. Six are printed and they are the whole of the permission.
• •A transfer between people who are not on that list. Siblings and friends are not among the six.
• •Using it to transfer the vehicle. The sheet says in its own heading that completing it does not convey ownership of the vehicle.
• •An unsworn signature. There is a perjury declaration and a notary block, and both have to be completed.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

• •It is not how you keep your tag when you sell. You keep that automatically - the plate is yours and comes off the car. This form is for the narrower case where the plate and the vehicle are staying together but the person they belong to is changing.
• •The trust and sole-proprietor boxes are the quiet ones. A tag registered to a business you own, or to a revocable trust you are trustee of, is exactly the kind of thing that surfaces years later. Two of the six boxes exist for that.

Every line here was read off 773-LP (Rev 01/2024) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Service Oklahoma, Motor Vehicle Services 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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