Half a page, one signature, and five tick boxes that between them cover every vehicle Oregon will accept without a mileage figure. It exists for the awkward middle case: a vehicle that is inside the model-year window and so ought to carry a disclosure, but physically cannot — no odometer was ever fitted, the odometer has been removed, the vehicle is over 16,000 pounds, it is not self-propelled, or it was stolen and never came back. Certifying one of those in writing is what lets the transfer go through with the mileage line empty.
Written against 735-6745 (8-26), issued under ORS 803.075 and 49 CFR 580.
Revised August 2026, and one of the shortest forms Oregon publishes. Read the five boxes carefully before ticking one — four of the five describe the vehicle, and only the stolen box describes what happened to it.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank 735-6745 from the oregon.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual 735-6745, rendered from the PDF the Oregon Department of Transportation, Driver and Motor Vehicle Services 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
Completed for the case a private owner is most likely to meet — a written-off vehicle going onto a salvage title with no readable odometer left in it. Only one of the five boxes is ticked, which is what the form's opening line requires.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
The vehicle was not equipped with an odometer at the time of manufacture
The first of the five boxes.
Watch out: This is a manufacturing fact, not a maintenance one. An odometer that has since been removed or has failed is a different box, or a different form entirely.
2
You fill this in
The manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating exceeds 16,000 pounds
The second box, matching the federal exemption at 49 CFR 580.
Watch out: It is the manufacturer's rating on the door label, not what the vehicle weighs today or what it is registered at.
3
You fill this in
The vehicle is not self-propelled
The third box — trailers, campers and anything else without an engine.
Watch out: DMV's odometer page lists these among the vehicles that never need a disclosure, so on a straightforward trailer sale nobody has to file this at all. It earns its place on a mixed application.
4
You fill this in
The vehicle is an unrecovered stolen vehicle
The fourth box, and the one attached to a salvage title application.
Watch out: The salvage instructions require this form for exactly this case. If the vehicle turns up afterwards, the exemption stops applying and the next transfer discloses normally.
5
You fill this in
The vehicle is covered by a salvage title and the odometer has been removed or destroyed
The fifth box. Both halves have to be true.
Watch out: A salvage title on its own does not exempt anything. What exempts it is that there is no longer an odometer to read.
6
You fill this in
Vehicle description
Plate number, year, make, body style and VIN, with the OR box for a DMV-assigned identification number.
Watch out: On a stolen vehicle the plate may be gone with the car. The VIN alone is enough for DMV to find the record.
7
You fill this in
Name, signature and date
A printed name, one signature on the X, and the date.
Watch out: Read the paragraph above the line first. Certifying an exemption that does not apply is a Class A misdemeanour under ORS 803.075, with a fine of up to $6,250 attached to it.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
The five exemption boxes
Check one: the vehicle was not equipped with an odometer at the time of manufacture; the manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating exceeds 16,000 pounds; the vehicle is not self-propelled; the vehicle is an unrecovered stolen vehicle; or the vehicle is covered by a salvage title and the odometer has been removed or destroyed.
Vehicle description
Plate number, year, make, body style and vehicle identification number, with the same OR tick box for a DMV-assigned number.
Name (please print)
The person certifying — usually the registered owner, and on a salvage application often the insurer.
Signature of person certifying, and date
One signature line marked with an X, and a date beside it.
The certification sentence
Printed above the signature: knowingly swearing or affirming falsely to any matter relating to the titling of vehicles is a crime under ORS 803.075, a Class A misdemeanour punishable by up to a year in jail, a fine of up to $6,250, or both.
What gets this one rejected
•Using it because the seller could not be reached. Being unable to obtain a disclosure is not an exemption from one — that case is the certification on the 735-226, not this form.
•More than one box ticked, or none. The form says check one box, in its own opening line.
•Using it on a model year 2010 or older vehicle, which needs nothing. Those vehicles are outside the disclosure rule entirely and no certification is required to say so.
•A stolen-vehicle box ticked on a vehicle that has been recovered. The exemption reads unrecovered, and a recovered vehicle discloses like any other.
•A salvage box ticked where the odometer is still in the dashboard. The exemption covers a salvage-titled vehicle whose odometer has been removed or destroyed, not a salvage title on its own.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It is the form the salvage application names. The instructions on the back of the Application for Salvage Title say that salvage title applications for unrecovered stolen vehicles must include an Exemption from Odometer Disclosure Requirements, form 735-6745. That is the commonest reason a seller ever meets it.
•Impossible is not the same as exempt. Where the disclosure cannot be given for a reason not on the list — the odometer was removed, the vehicle burnt — the salvage application asks for the reason to be written on line 4 instead, and the resulting title shows Not Readable in the odometer section.
