How to fill out Oregon 735-402A

The one document that can carry an odometer disclosure signed by somebody other than the owner, and Oregon guards it closely. It is printed on controlled security stock, it is not on the DMV forms page, and DMV will only put one in the post to a person who asks for it. The circumstances that unlock it are a closed list of four, and none of them is simply being away.

Written against 735-402A (not published online), issued under 49 CFR 580.13 and DMV Title & Registration Handbook Chapter H. Not downloadable and not on the forms page. Ring DMV Customer Assistance on 503-945-5000 to ask for one, and build the post into the sale timetable rather than discovering it on the day.

There is no download link for the 735-402A here because there is not one anywhere - Oregon DMV does not publish it. The card below explains where it does come from.

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Why there is no completed 735-402A here

There is no completed sample of the 735-402A here because Oregon does not publish a blank one to complete. It is a controlled, numbered security document issued to a named person on request, and the only picture of it in the public record is the specimen Oregon DMV reproduces on page H9 of its Title & Registration Handbook. Drawing a version of it and captioning that as the form would be a fabrication, so the page says what the document does instead.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
The grant of authority	The owner appointing somebody to disclose the odometer reading on their behalf, on a document DMV has issued and numbered.
The odometer disclosure	The reading in whole miles, the date, and the same two exception statements the certificate carries — in excess of mechanical limits, and not the actual mileage.
Identification of the vehicle	The description tying the authority to a single vehicle, as on the ordinary power of attorney.
The control number	Pre-printed by DMV, which is what makes the document secure and traceable to the person it was issued to.

What gets this one rejected

•Used where the title is simply inconvenient to get hold of. The four circumstances are that the title is lost, destroyed, mutilated, or held by a security interest holder.
•Filed on its own, ahead of a transaction. DMV records that before 2023 it accepted secure power of attorney filings separate from a title transaction, and that this practice has been discontinued.
•An ordinary Form 735-500 offered instead. The ordinary power of attorney does not reach the odometer disclosure at all.
•A photocopy of a photocopy. Oregon accepts a carbon copy of this document and of a secure odometer disclosure, and of nothing else in the system.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•It is federal in origin. The secure power of attorney exists because 49 CFR 580.13 allows a disclosure to be made by an agent only on a secure document, which is why Oregon prints it the way it does.
•Ask DMV, do not download it. The odometer page's instruction for the secure disclosure applies here too: contact DMV for further information, and the department posts it out.
•A lost title on a 2011-or-newer car has a simpler answer. Get the replacement title first. DMV's rule is that the seller must get a replacement title and disclose the reading on the new one, which avoids the secure document entirely.

There is no 735-402A to read: Oregon DMV does not publish it, so nothing on this page describes its contents beyond what the agency itself says about it — that is here — and what is on the Oregon Department of Transportation, Driver and Motor Vehicle Services 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 Oregon 735-402A

Why there is no completed 735-402A here

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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