Multipurpose Vehicle Affidavit – Alachua County

The Multipurpose Vehicle Affidavit, printed as Multi-Purpose Affidavit & Bill of Sale, is an Alachua County Tax Collector form on which a seller, purchaser or owner certifies facts about a motor vehicle, mobile home, off-highway vehicle, vessel or trailer and records a sale.

The form has four sections:

• Section 1 describes the property: make, year, body type, color, tag number, title number and VIN/HULL.
• Section 2 offers the statements to certify. They cover dead storage during the registration period for which an exemption is claimed, a license plate that is lost, destroyed, stolen or otherwise unavailable, authorization for another person to surrender a plate and receive the cancelled receipt, relinquishing a personalized plate to the new applicant, two names that belong to the same person or company, a name entered on the wrong line of the certificate of title, a name lined through or altered on the title, and an Other line.
• Section 3 is the Bill of Sale: the purchaser's printed name(s), selling price, date and address.
• Section 4 is the certification, signed under penalties of perjury by the seller and by the purchaser or owner.

The revision printed on the form is Revised 03/11/11. The form prints no form number.

Owners, sellers and purchasers of a motor vehicle, mobile home, off-highway vehicle, vessel or trailer use this form when one of the statements in Section 2 applies to their transaction with the Alachua County Tax Collector.

• Owners claiming an exemption for a vehicle that was continuously maintained in dead storage and not operated at any time during the registration period. This statement does not apply to mobile homes or park/travel trailers registered as a mobile home.
• Owners whose license plate is lost, destroyed, stolen or otherwise unavailable to surrender. They certify that a plate found later will not be affixed to any motor vehicle.
• Owners who authorize another person to surrender a named plate number and receive the cancelled receipt on their behalf.
• Owners who give up a personalized plate so that the new applicant can use it.
• Sellers and purchasers correcting a certificate of title. Either the buyer or the seller may complete the statement that a name was entered on the incorrect line. Only the seller may complete the statement that a lined-through or altered name was entered in error or belongs to someone who never took possession.
• Sellers recording a sale in Section 3, which names the purchaser, the selling price and the date.

Complete the form when one of the situations in Section 2 arises, or when you sell the vehicle, mobile home, off-highway vehicle, vessel or trailer and need to record the sale in Section 3. The dead storage statement refers to a specific registration period, the one for which the exemption is being claimed. The form prints no due date of its own, so ask the Alachua County Tax Collector whether a deadline applies to the transaction it supports. Both the seller and the purchaser or owner date their signatures in Section 4.

The form prints no mailing address, portal or appointment rule, so submission follows the instructions of the Alachua County Tax Collector, which publishes the form at http://www.alachuacollector.com/forms/multipurpose_vehicle_affidavit.pdf.

Before you hand it in, check that Section 4 is signed and dated by the seller and by the purchaser or owner, with printed names. If you used the statement about a name lined through or altered on the title, Section 3 must be completed, or a separate Bill of Sale will be required. Ask the Tax Collector's office what else it needs for your transaction and whether the original signed page is required.

FillingPDF lets you fill out and download the PDF; submission follows the Tax Collector's channels.