The form that changes a name or a lien on a certificate that already exists, without a sale happening. A Vermont seller meets it in two ways: adding or removing a co-owner before listing the car, which is what the Add and Delete ticks are for, and refinancing, which is what the notice of a security interest at the foot is for. It carries the department's clearest published fee arithmetic - $56.00 to add or delete a name and add a lien, $76.00 if the registration has to be corrected as well - and one instruction people miss until it costs them a second trip: changing a name on the title requires the same change on the registration.
Written against VT-019 (09/2024), issued under 23 V.S.A. s. 2042 and s. 2043, perfecting a security interest, declared under penalties of 23 V.S.A. s. 202, s. 203, s. 2082 and s. 3829. This is a two-page PDF and the second page is not a duplicate - it carries the fee schedule, the survivorship definitions and the sixty-day lienholder duty. Print both.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank VT-019 from the dmv.vermont.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our VT-019 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.
This is all 2 pages of the actual VT-019, rendered from the PDF the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, Agency of Transportation publishes and completed end to end: letterhead, every field, and the blocks at the foot.
The owner who is staying on the certificate, exactly as it is printed today.
Watch out: If both names are changing, this is a transfer rather than a correction, and a transfer runs on the back of the title instead.
The name being added or removed, with a date of birth where somebody is being added.
Watch out: The department asks for the co-owner's date of birth specifically when a name is being added. Leaving it out on an Add is a returned form.
One of five, and it will be printed on the corrected certificate.
Watch out: Read what the certificate says now before you tick anything. Changing the legend by accident is a change nobody notices until somebody dies.
The tick that says which direction this correction runs.
Watch out: Deleting a name here does not settle who owns what between the two of you. It changes the department's record; the agreement is your own business.
From the registration certificate rather than from memory, because the department is checking that the registration matches.
Watch out: This is the box that tells you whether the registration also needs correcting - and if it does, page 2 says the total is $76.00 rather than $56.00.
Seventeen characters, matching the certificate enclosed.
Watch out: The original title goes in the envelope with this form, so a mismatch is obvious - but only once it reaches Montpelier.
A full disclosure, in whole numbers, with one of the three boxes ticked.
Watch out: A corrected certificate is a new certificate, and it will carry whatever reading you write here for the rest of the car's life.
Name, address, date of lien, and a licence number and date of birth if the lender is an individual.
Watch out: Write NONE across it if there is no loan. An empty block reads as an unanswered question rather than as a negative answer.
Not a box to fill in - the department's own arithmetic, printed so you can send the right money.
Watch out: Send one payment for the exact total. A cheque short by the $20.00 registration correction holds the whole transaction, certificate included.
| On the form | What to put in it |
|---|---|
| Vehicle is Owned or Leased, and Email or phone | Two ticks and a contact line at the head of the sheet. |
| Owner/Lessee: Name, License #, both address lines, previous names, Date of birth | The primary owner's block, identical in shape to the one on VT-004 and VT-008. |
| Co-Owner/Lessor: the same block again | Filled in whenever a second name is on the certificate, or is about to be. |
| Rights of survivorship: five ticks | Spouses, Joint Tenants, Tenants In Common, Partners (business), TOD. Under the same red heading as its sibling forms. |
| If you are adding or deleting an owner, check the appropriate box: Add / Delete | The tick that turns this from a lien notice into a change of ownership on the certificate. |
| The instruction paragraph | Adding or deleting a name on a title requires making the same change on the registration, with a note to check the registration certificate before submitting, and a reminder that both owner and co-owner signatures are required. |
| Plate/Registration #, Plate/Registration Expiration, Model Year, Make | The vehicle as the registration describes it, including the expiry date. |
| Vessel Length and Body/Hull Type (if boat) | Blank on a car, and the reason the fee table on the back has three columns. |
| Serial Number (VIN) | Seventeen characters. |
| Mileage (No Tenths), with Miles, Km or Hours, and three certifications | A full odometer disclosure, because a corrected certificate is a new certificate. |
| Lienholder: Name, Address, Date of Lien, City, State, ZIP, License # and Date of birth if individual | The notice of a security interest. The last two boxes exist because a private lender is a person rather than a company. |
| Signature of Current Titled Owner and Co-Owner, with Date | Under a certification that all owners are required to sign for a title and that the certificate will be posted to the lienholder in approximately four weeks. |
| Signature of Lienholder (If lien still in effect) | With the department's own warning beside it: NOTE - this does not constitute a lien release. |
| Page 2, the fee table | $14.00 a lien; $56.00 to add or delete a name and add a lien to a title, being the $42.00 title fee plus the $14.00 lien fee; $76.00 to do both and correct the registration, being $42.00 plus $14.00 plus a $20.00 corrected registration fee. |
Every line here was read off VT-019 (09/2024) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, Agency of Transportation 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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