The nearest thing Oklahoma has to a release of liability, and it is optional. One page, a $10.00 filing fee, no deadline anywhere on it. What it buys is a dated record in Service Oklahoma's files that the vehicle left your hands, and a block on certain transactions until the buyer completes the transfer. The form describes itself exactly: an optional form that serves only as a notification of the assignment of ownership, and completion and filing of this form does not constitute a transfer of title.
Written against 773 (Rev 01/2023), issued under 47 O.S. 1107.4.
This form still tells you to mail it to any Oklahoma Tag Agency, and Oklahoma has not had tag agencies since the transfer to Service Oklahoma. They are licensed operators now, at the same addresses and often the same counters. It is a live form printing a dead name, and it is a useful reminder of how much Oklahoma paperwork is still catching up.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank 773 from the oklahoma.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual 773, rendered from the PDF the Service Oklahoma, Motor Vehicle Services 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
Every box the form gives is completed, because the instructions refuse an incomplete notice. The signature and date of sale sit on printed rules with no field behind them, and there is no notary block at all - this is the one seller document in Oklahoma that needs only a signature.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
Vehicle Identification Number, Title Number, License Plate Number
The three identifiers across the top of the sheet.
Watch out: The plate number is the one you have just unbolted and kept. It goes on the notice because the notice is about a vehicle you are no longer responsible for, not about a plate you have handed over.
2
You fill this in
Buyer's Name, Address and City/State/Zip
Who has the vehicle and where they are, printed by you.
Watch out: Copy it off their driver licence at the handover. Filing a notice with a name you half-remember is worse than not filing one.
3
You fill this in
Seller's Name, Address and City/State/Zip
Your own details, printed to match the record.
Watch out: Use the name the title is in. If you have married or moved since, this is not the place to update either - it is the place to be findable.
4
You fill this in
Seller's Daytime Phone Number and Email Address
Two contact fields, both required like everything else on the sheet.
Watch out: Leaving one blank is enough for the notice not to be filed, and you will not be told.
5
You fill this in
Signature of Seller and Date of Sale
Your signature and the day the vehicle actually changed hands.
Watch out: The date of sale is what gives this document its value. Make it the same date that appears on the transfer and on the odometer disclosure.
6
You fill this in
Then file it, with the fee
Online through the state's OkCARS service, or delivered or mailed to a licensed operator, with the $10.00 filing fee.
Watch out: The printed instructions still say tag agency. That is the same place: Oklahoma renamed tag agents licensed operators and the form has not been reprinted.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
Vehicle Identification Number
The opening rule, running the width of the sheet.
Title Number and License Plate Number
Two boxes on the second rule.
Buyer's Name (Printed)
Printed rather than signed - the buyer never touches this form.
Buyer's Address and Buyer's City/State/Zip
Two rules for where the vehicle has gone.
Seller's Name (Printed)
Your name, printed.
Seller's Address and Seller's City/State/Zip
Your address, on two rules matching the buyer's.
Seller's Daytime Phone Number
A contact number, because Service Oklahoma may need to reach the person who filed it.
Seller's Email Address
An email rule under the phone number.
Signature of Seller and Date of Sale
The only signature on the sheet, with the date of the handover beside it. There is no notary block.
Notice of Transfer Instructions
A printed block naming where to file - online through OkCARS, or delivered or mailed - and stating that all requested information must be provided in order for this notice to be filed.
Notice to Buyer(s)
A separate printed block warning the buyer that Oklahoma law requires transfer of title within thirty (30) days of the assignment date and that failure will result in delinquent penalties.
Notice of Transfer Filing Fee: $10.00
Printed twice - once in the top right corner and once as the last line of the sheet.
What gets this one rejected
•Any field left blank. The instruction block says all requested information must be provided in order for this notice to be filed, and an incomplete notice is simply not filed.
•Filed instead of doing the transfer. It says so itself: completion and filing of this form does not constitute a transfer of title.
•Filed by the buyer. Every field on it is either the buyer's details being reported or the seller's own, and the single signature line is the seller's.
•Sent without the fee. The filing fee is printed on the sheet twice, which suggests it has been forgotten more than once.
•A date of sale that does not match the assignment. This form's whole value is as a dated record, so a date that disagrees with the transfer document undermines the only thing it does.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•Nobody is compelled to file it. The statute behind it says in terms that not filing imposes no civil or criminal liability on the owner. The reason to file is evidential, not legal.
•The thirty days printed on it are the buyer's, not yours. The Notice to Buyer block warns that Oklahoma law requires transfer of title within thirty (30) days of the assignment date. Service Oklahoma's public guidance says two months. Both statements exist in current Oklahoma law and the site says so rather than picking one.
Every line here was read off 773 (Rev 01/2023) 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.
