The overflow sheet. The Vehicle Title Application has room for two registered owners and one lienholder; a car going into three names, or one carrying two lenders, runs out of boxes. This continuation sheet carries owners three and four and lienholders two and three, and it is stapled to the application rather than filed on its own.
Written against 420-001A (R/5/19), issued under RCW 46.12.530.
A seller never touches this sheet, but it is worth knowing it exists: a buyer who turns up with three names for the certificate and no continuation sheet will be sent away to print one, and that is a wasted appointment for both of you.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank 420-001A from the dol.wa.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual 420-001A, rendered from the PDF the Washington State Department of Licensing 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 continuation sheet, filled in for a third buyer joining the same purchase. The identification number in the top right corner is the only thing tying it to the application it belongs with - which is why an unsigned or unnumbered copy is worth nothing at the counter.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
The buyer fills this in
The identification number at the top
Seventeen characters, repeated from the main application.
Watch out: Fill this in first. A continuation sheet that becomes separated from its application and carries no identification number cannot be matched back to anything.
2
The buyer fills this in
Registered owner 3
Owner type, identification type and number, expiry, phone type and number.
Watch out: The numbering continues from the main form. Starting again at one here is how an application ends up appearing to name two owner threes.
3
The buyer fills this in
Owner 3's full name and address
Last, first, middle and suffix, then the Washington primary residence street address.
Watch out: The same address rule applies to every additional owner. A third owner living out of state needs the residence exception form, not a mailing address in the residence line.
4
The buyer fills this in
Registered owner 4 and survivorship
A second owner band with the joint tenants with right of survivorship question beside it.
Watch out: Answer it deliberately. With three or four names on a certificate the difference between survivorship and tenants in common is the difference between a phone call and a probate.
5
The lienholder fills this in
Legal owner or lienholder 2 and 3
Two further lender blocks with identification and an electronic-titles tick each.
Watch out: Rare on a private sale, and worth querying if a buyer is filling them in - two lenders on one used car is unusual enough to be a mistake.
6
The buyer fills this in
Signatures, one per additional owner
Each additional owner signs with the date and the city or county where they signed.
Watch out: They have to be present. A signature collected at home and brought along is exactly what the notarisation block below exists to prevent.
7
The buyer fills this in
The notarisation block
State, county, date, the names of the people signing, and the notary or agent's details.
Watch out: It names the people signing this document. An owner who could not come to the counter is not covered by it, however many other signatures are.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
Vehicle identification number
Repeated at the top right, because the sheet is meaningless once it is separated from the application it belongs to.
Registered owner 3 - owner type, ID type, driver licence, ID, TIN, EIN or UBI number, expiry date, phone
The same band as the main form, numbered to continue from it.
Registered owner 3 full name or business name
Last, first, middle and suffix, or the full registered business name.
Registered owner 4 and the survivorship tick
A second owner band, with the joint tenants with right of survivorship question attached to it.
Legal owner/lienholder 2 and 3
Two further lender blocks, each with an identification type, number, expiry and an electronic-titles participant tick.
Signature lines for each additional registered owner
Every additional owner signs here, with the date and the place - city or county - the signature was made.
Notarization / Certification
The same block as the main application: state, county, date, the name of the person signing, and the notary's or agent's signature, printed name, title and number.
What gets this one rejected
•Sending it in by itself. It is an attachment, and there is nothing on it that identifies the transaction except the identification number at the top.
•Leaving that identification number off, which is the commonest way this sheet becomes unusable.
•An unsigned owner. Every registered owner named on the continuation sheet signs it, in front of the notary or the licensing agent, exactly as on the main form.
•Using it for a co-buyer who fits on the main application. Owners one and two belong on the form itself.
•A business named without the person signing showing their title. There is a title line beside each signature for exactly that.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•The survivorship question follows the owners. Where three or four people are taking the vehicle together, the joint tenants with right of survivorship tick on this sheet is what decides whether a survivor takes the share.
•Three lienholders is the ceiling on paper. The main application carries the first, and this sheet carries the second and third.
•Same address rule as the main form. A Washington primary residence street address is required on the vehicle record for every individual owner named here, with the same narrow set of exceptions.
•It is signed at the same moment as the application. One notarisation covers the people who signed in front of that notary, which is why every additional owner needs to be at the counter too.
Every line here was read off 420-001A (R/5/19) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Washington State Department of Licensing pages.
This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ,
theirs governs.
