The buyer’s written acknowledgement that the car they are taking away can never legally go back on a road - anywhere, ever. It is the harder twin of the salvage disclosure: salvage can be rebuilt and retitled, nonrepairable cannot.
Written against ENF-SAL-221-NR (Rev. 08/16), issued under Texas Transportation Code 501.0925.
If you are selling a car that Texas has classified nonrepairable, this piece of paper is what protects you from a buyer who later claims they thought they could fix it. Get it signed before the trailer leaves.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank ENF-SAL-221-NR from the txdmv.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our ENF-SAL-221-NR guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.
This is the actual ENF-SAL-221-NR, rendered from the PDF the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles 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
The real ENF-SAL-221-NR, signed by the purchaser and nobody else. The flood box is ticked because on this vehicle water was the only reason for the classification - which is exactly what that box is for.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
Vehicle
Year, make and VIN.
Watch out: Fill this in before the buyer arrives. It is the only part of the form that is yours to prepare.
2
The buyer fills this in
Purchaser’s printed name
The buyer’s name, printed into the acknowledgement sentence.
Watch out: Read the sentence out loud if you have to. It is doing all the work on this page.
3
You fill this in
Flood-only box
Ticked only where flood damage is the sole reason for the classification.
Watch out: If the car was also wrecked or burned, leave it. The box is about why, not about what happened at some point.
4
The buyer fills this in
Purchaser signs and dates
The buyer’s signature and the date.
Watch out: Keep a copy. Without one you have no evidence the disclosure ever happened.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
Vehicle
Year, make and VIN.
Purchaser acknowledgement
The purchaser’s printed name inside a sentence acknowledging that the vehicle is nonrepairable, will never be lawfully operated or titled on a public highway in this or any other state, and cannot be registered.
Flood-only box
A single tick, used only where the vehicle is classified nonrepairable because of flood damage alone.
Signature and date
The purchaser signs. The seller does not.
What gets this one rejected
•The seller signing it. Every line on this form belongs to the purchaser, and it is their acknowledgement that has legal effect.
•Using it for a salvage vehicle. Salvage and nonrepairable are different classifications with different forms - the salvage disclosure is the ENF-SAL-221.
•Ticking the flood box on a car that is nonrepairable for other reasons. The box is explicitly for a vehicle classified nonrepairable based solely on flood damage.
•Handing the car over without one. The disclosure is the point of the exercise, and it happens before the vehicle changes hands.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•Nonrepairable is permanent. The form’s own sentence: this vehicle will never be able to be lawfully operated or titled on a public highway of this state or any other state. There is no rebuilt route out of it.
•The purchaser has to title it before reselling. Also on the form: before selling this nonrepairable motor vehicle I must title the nonrepairable motor vehicle into my name. The chain of nonrepairable titles has to stay unbroken.
•The flood box is a record, not a concession. It marks why the vehicle ended up here. On a flooded car that was written off without structural damage, that distinction is the whole story.
•Parts and metal is what is left. A nonrepairable vehicle is a source of components and scrap. Anyone buying one for anything else has misunderstood what they signed.
Every line here was read off ENF-SAL-221-NR (Rev. 08/16) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Texas Department 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.
