How to fill out Wyoming MV-220

This is the only way to find out what Wyoming's own record says about a vehicle - who is the owner of record, what the title number is, and which lienholders are still on file. It is one form doing two jobs, which is why the heading is so long. Steps one, five and six are for everybody; step three is only for a vehicle abandoned on your property; step four is the list of lawful reasons the federal privacy rules allow a record to be released for, and you have to pick the one that is actually yours. A seller reaches this form when they are trying to establish ownership of something they bought without paper, because the affidavit route asks for the search result as an attachment - and the certified letters that come after it go to the names the search returns.

Written against MV-220 (1/24), issued under WYDOT Motor Vehicle Services, under the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act permissible uses reprinted on the form; the abandoned-vehicle route is W.S. 31-13-109. The department's answer is a record, not a permission. It tells you who Wyoming believes owns the vehicle and what is filed against it; it does not transfer anything, and it does not clear a lien. If the search comes back naming a lienholder, that lien is live until the lender releases it, and no affidavit or bond anywhere later in this chain can paint over it. Read the reply before you spend money on a surety bond.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank MV-220 from the dot.state.wy.us copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our MV-220 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank MV-220 — Application for Abandoned Vehicle Identification Request or Vehicle Record and Privacy Disclosure Release PDF at dot.state.wy.us · new tab Step 2 · how to fill it in Our filled-in MV-220 guide PDF · print and keep beside you

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is all 2 pages of the actual MV-220, rendered from the PDF the Wyoming Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Services 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

A completed Wyoming MV-220. The requester is Verlene A. Tiegen of 1418 Cottonwood Loop, Sheridan, Wyoming 82801. The vehicle row reads make Ford, year 2000, identification number 1FMEU63E6YUB40915, model Explorer XLT, body style SW and colour Green, with the plate and title number columns left empty. In step two the bonded box is ticked. The whole abandoned-vehicle block in step three is greyed out. On the reverse the second reason box, headed BONDED TITLE, is ticked; the sworn signature and date rules under it carry no field in the document and are left blank for pen. — Page 1 of 2. Step one and step two completed for a bonded application. The whole of step three is washed grey - our applicant bought the vehicle, so the abandoned route is closed to her and none of it is hers to complete.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
You fill this in
Fill in everything you actually have
Your details, then the vehicle - make, year, identification number, model, body style and colour, with the plate, plate state and title number columns marked if applicable.
Watch out: The identification number is the one entry the search cannot run without. Read it off the vehicle itself, from the windscreen plate and the door jamb, and check the two agree before you post anything.
2
You fill this in
Tick the type of application
Bonded if you bought it and cannot get a title. Storage or mechanic's lien sale if you are owed money on it. Abandoned only for a vehicle left on your property without consent for thirty consecutive days.
Watch out: Each box prints its own onward route beside it. Bonded and lien sale skip step three entirely and go straight to steps four, five and six.
3
Somebody else fills this in
Skip step three unless the vehicle was abandoned
The whole block - where it was left, how it came to you, the dates and times, and where it sits now - belongs to the abandoned route.
Watch out: Filling it in on a bonded application does not add weight. It contradicts the box you ticked, and a contradiction is what makes a clerk telephone rather than process.
4
You fill this in
Pick your ground on the reverse
One of the twelve reasons the record may lawfully be released for. Two of them are labelled to match the front page, and the last has a line for a use you have to name.
Watch out: If nothing on the list describes you, that is the answer rather than an obstacle - the department cannot release somebody else's record for curiosity, however reasonable the curiosity.
5
You fill this in
Assemble the enclosures
The form, a copy of the law enforcement identification number inspection if you have the vehicle, a copy of the photo identification of whoever signed, and the $15.00 fee made payable to WYDOT.
Watch out: Get the inspection done first if the vehicle is in your yard. The same inspection is asked for again further down the bonded chain, so one visit from a deputy serves twice.
6
You fill this in
Sign, date and post it to Cheyenne
The sworn line, then the whole package to Motor Vehicle Services at the Bishop Boulevard address printed in step six.
Watch out: Take a copy of everything before it goes. The reply names the people your certified letters have to reach, and you will be attaching both to the affidavit later.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Step one, requester and vehicle	Your name or business name, daytime phone, email and postal address, then make, year, identification number, model, body style, colour, plate number with its expiry, the state the plate is from and the title number - each of the last four marked if applicable, because the whole point is that you do not have them all.
Step two, the type of application	Four tick boxes: bonded, where you bought a vehicle and are unable to obtain a title; a storage or mechanic's lien sale on an unpaid bill; abandoned in Wyoming only; or other. Each one routes you to a different set of remaining steps, printed beside it.
Step three, the abandoned block	Only for the abandoned tick. Where the vehicle was left, how it came into your possession, the date it was abandoned or towed, and if it has been moved since, who moved it, when, at what time, and where it is now.
The thirty-day statement	Printed inside step three: that the vehicle has been abandoned on private property or towed and left in excess of 30 consecutive days, with the acknowledgement that a vehicle purchased without clear title, or left with consent, cannot be processed as abandoned.
Was the vehicle tagged by law enforcement	Yes or no, at the foot of the front side.
Step four, the reason for the request	Twelve printed reasons on the reverse, one to be ticked, from a government agency carrying out its normal functions through to any other use specifically authorised by law - which has a line beside it to specify. Two of them carry the words BONDED TITLE and STORAGE/MECHANIC LIEN SALE at the front, matching the boxes on the front page.
Step five, the sworn signature and the attachment list	Signature and date under a statement that the information is true and that you will not resell or disclose what comes back. Beside it, the list of what must be enclosed or the request is not processed.
Step six, where it goes	Posted with the fee to WYDOT Motor Vehicle Services in Cheyenne. This is the one document in the Wyoming chain that does not go to a county counter.

What gets this one rejected

•Ticking abandoned for a vehicle you bought. The form says it twice, once in capitals: vehicles purchased without clear title and vehicles left with consent cannot be processed as abandoned. If money changed hands, your box is the bonded one.
•Sending it without the enclosures. The list is printed as a condition - the completed form, a copy of a law enforcement identification number inspection where the vehicle is in your possession, a copy of a government-issued photo identification for whoever signed, and the $15.00 fee payable to WYDOT.
•Sending the original inspection. The form asks for a copy and warns in bold that the original will not be returned.
•Leaving step four blank because step two looked like the same question. They are different questions - one is what you are trying to do, the other is the privacy-law ground on which the department may lawfully release somebody's record to you. Both are needed.
•Reselling what comes back. The sworn line covers it and so does the heading above the list: resale or disclosure of any information received as a result of this release is prohibited.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•It is a mail-in, and it is the state's counter. Everything else in a Wyoming title chain happens at a county clerk or a county treasurer. This one goes to Cheyenne, to Motor Vehicle Services, and it is answered from the state record.
•The search names the people your letters go to. The affidavit route wants certified letters sent to any lienholder identified and to the previous owner of record. Neither name exists until this comes back, which is why the search sits before the letters rather than after them.
•A copy travels onward. The affidavit's own instruction table asks for copies of the identification number inspection, this search and a colour picture of the vehicle to be attached to it. Keep the reply - you are going to file it again.
•Out-of-state applicants have an extra condition. If you are trying to title or register the vehicle somewhere other than Wyoming, the department asks for documentation from that state showing a Wyoming record search is required as part of its process.
•The abandoned route has a hard floor of thirty days. W.S. 31-13-109 covers a vehicle left without the consent of the person in lawful control of the property, and the form is explicit that consent does not expire - a car a friend left in your yard in March is not abandoned in September.

Every line here was read off MV-220 (1/24) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Wyoming Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Services 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 Wyoming MV-220

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Fill in everything you actually have

Tick the type of application

Skip step three unless the vehicle was abandoned

Pick your ground on the reverse

Assemble the enclosures

Sign, date and post it to Cheyenne

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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