How to fill out Wyoming MV-300A

Wyoming's title application is two forms sharing a sheet, and a private seller meets both by accident. The top half is the application for a certificate of title - the vehicle, the branded title questions, the purchaser and seller block, any lienholder, and the purchaser's sworn signature. The bottom half is the VIN or HIN inspection form, and its own heading limits it: required when the prior title is from a state other than Wyoming, not required for an MSO or MCO. Most in-state sales never need this sheet at all, because the back of the Wyoming certificate carries the same application in its section 4. Where it earns its keep is everything else - a title with no room left, a mobile home, a vehicle arriving from another state, or a county clerk who simply prefers the form.

Written against MV-300A (01/20), issued under WYDOT Motor Vehicle Services, prescribed under W.S. 31-2-103 and filed with the county clerk. The bottom half of this sheet is the part sellers get wrong, and it is worth being clear about who it belongs to. The inspection is performed and certified by a Wyoming law enforcement officer, or by a licensed Wyoming dealer for a vehicle in their own inventory - not by the seller, not by the buyer, and not by a mechanic who knows the car. If a buyer asks you to sign the officer's block because the vehicle is going out of state next week, the answer is on the reverse of the form in capitals.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank MV-300A from the dot.state.wy.us copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our MV-300A guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Every line, in the order you meet it

1. 1
   The buyer fills this in

   Tick what the thing is

   Motor vehicle, trailer, snowmobile, watercraft or mobile home. Leave Date Title Issued alone - that is the clerk's box.

   Watch out: One tick. A quad that is registered as a multipurpose vehicle is still a motor vehicle here; the type box is about which titling rules apply, not what the thing looks like.

2. 2
   The buyer fills this in

   The vehicle rows, copied from the certificate

   Manufacturer, year, identification number, body style, factory price or MSRP, prior state, prior title number, odometer, weight and purchase date.

   Watch out: Copy the identification number character by character off the certificate rather than off the dashboard - the two should agree, and if they do not, that is a problem to solve before anybody signs anything.

3. 3
   You fill this in

   Answer both branded title questions

   Has the vehicle currently or ever had a branded title, and has it been declared a total loss by an insurer or sustained 75% damage of actual cash value. The person completing this section prints and signs their name underneath.

   Watch out: This is the one block on the form a seller genuinely does complete, because it asks about the history of the vehicle rather than about the applicant. A Yes here means the buyer also needs the MV-602 disclosure signed.

4. 4
   The buyer fills this in

   Purchaser, then seller

   The buyer's full name and address first, then the seller's underneath. The margin tick asks whether joint tenants with rights of survivorship should be noted on the new title.

   Watch out: Two buyers who want the survivor to be able to sell alone should tick it now. Adding it later means applying for a new title and paying the title fee a second time.

5. 5
   Somebody else fills this in

   Lien information, or nothing

   The lienholder's name and address and the filing number, date and amount, completed where the buyer borrowed to buy.

   Watch out: A Wyoming lien is perfected at the county clerk in the county where the vehicle is kept - the lender's paperwork goes to the same counter as this form, not to the department in Cheyenne.

6. 6
   The buyer fills this in

   The purchaser signs, and only the purchaser

   The sworn paragraph is the applicant's: that the information is true, that the vehicle is subject to the liens shown and none other, and that false information may cancel the title.

   Watch out: No notary line, no witness line. If the county you are filing in asks for the application notarised anyway - some checklists still do, from the older revision - that is a county requirement worth confirming before you drive over.

7. 7
   Somebody else fills this in

   Leave the inspection half alone

   The seventeen cells, the year, make, model and trim, and the officer's certification below them belong to a Wyoming law enforcement officer, or a licensed Wyoming dealer for a vehicle in their own inventory.

   Watch out: Required only where the prior title is from another state, or for a homemade, rebuilt, reconstructed, kit or bonded vehicle. A Wyoming-to-Wyoming sale leaves the whole half empty.

What gets this one rejected

• •Filling in the inspection half of a purely Wyoming sale. The heading says required when the prior title is from a state other than Wyoming - a Wyoming certificate presented to a Wyoming clerk needs no inspection, and a well-meant signature there invites questions rather than answering them.
• •A seller signing where the purchaser signs. Every signature on the upper half is the applicant's, which is the buyer. The seller's name and address appear as information, not as consent - the seller's consent is the notarised assignment on the certificate.
• •Answering the branded title questions from memory. The NMVTIS column exists because the department checks, and a No that its records contradict stops the application while a clerk works out which is right.
• •A prior title number that does not match the certificate. Wyoming title numbers carry a county prefix, so a transposed digit points the clerk at the wrong county's records.
• •Having somebody inspect the vehicle identification number who is not authorised to. The reverse says plainly that an unauthorised inspection is cause to void the title application and may void any title or registration issued from it - and warns of criminal penalties on top.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

• •This form is the overflow, not the main route. A Wyoming private sale is normally completed entirely on the certificate: section 4 on its back is the purchaser's application. Counties keep this sheet for the cases the certificate cannot carry - out-of-state paper, mobile homes, a title with no space left, a bonded application.
• •The inspection is a $10.00 job and the fee is printed on the form. Its own footnote cites the fee for each vehicle identification number inspected, and gives the one-fee rule where a VIN and a HIN are inspected at the same time.
• •No notary block, and that is deliberate. The revision before this one printed a notary statement headed required on all applications. This one does not, which matches the statute: it is the seller's assignment that must be acknowledged before a notarial officer, not the buyer's application. Several county checklists still ask for a notarised application, so ask the county you are filing in.
• •The joint tenancy tick decides what happens at a death. Marked, the new title shows joint ownership with rights of survivorship and the survivor can sell alone with a death certificate. Unmarked, two names on a Wyoming title are two separate interests, and the connector printed between them decides who has to sign next time.
• •The clerk cannot hand the title over until the tax is receipted. The reverse reprints the subsection: no certificate of title is delivered until a receipt for payment of sales or use tax is presented. That receipt comes from the county treasurer, at a different counter.
• •A brand follows the vehicle forever. The salvage statute on the reverse carries the rule forward - a title from any jurisdiction bearing salvage, unrebuildable, parts only, scrap, junk, nonrepairable, reconstructed, rebuilt or a flood notation puts that information on every subsequent Wyoming title, including a duplicate.

Every line here was read off MV-300A (01/20) 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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