Can You Get a Copy of Your Car Title Online in Nevada?

You cannot get a full copy of a car title online in Nevada, but you can get close. The Nevada DMV’s Turbo Title program lets you start a duplicate title application on its website and finish the transaction at a DMV office. If that hybrid route doesn’t fit your situation, the traditional path is Form VP 012, submitted by mail or in person. Either way, the fee is $20 if the vehicle stays in Nevada, and the application has to be notarized before the DMV will process it.¹

The Turbo Title Program: Start Online, Finish In Person

Turbo Titles is the closest Nevada offers to an online duplicate title. You enter your vehicle and ownership information through the DMV’s Turbo Title portal, then visit a DMV office to pay the fee and present your documents. Starting online cuts the counter time down considerably, which matters because appointments can be booked out for weeks.²

To use it for a duplicate, you must be the eligible customer needing a Nevada title, and the vehicle cannot have a lien sale certificate. As of July 31, 2025, the program also handles vehicles acquired through a trust, court order, or transfer on death, as well as those with rebuilt status.² When you qualify, the DMV’s appointment system routes you to the Turbo Title portal rather than the general scheduling page.³

Who Can Apply

Only the legal owner on the DMV’s records can request a duplicate. If a lienholder is on the title, the lienholder is the legal owner. On a leased vehicle with no lienholder, the lessor is the owner. When neither applies, the registered owner named on the title can apply.¹

Names on the title matter too. Two or more owners joined by “AND” must all sign. Names joined by “OR” mean any one owner can apply alone. The vehicle also has to have been last titled in Nevada with no active lien on record.⁴

Applying by Mail With Form VP 012

The standard path outside Turbo Titles is the Application for Duplicate Nevada Certificate of Title, Form VP 012, downloadable from the DMV site.⁴ It asks for the VIN, Nevada plate number, your legal name, date of birth, Nevada driver’s license or ID number, and your physical and mailing addresses.¹

The completed form must be notarized or witnessed by an authorized DMV representative before submission. Unnotarized applications are not processed.¹ If you’re mailing the form, you’ll need to find a notary separately. Nevada caps notary fees at $15 per signature for an acknowledgment or jurat.

Send the notarized form with a check payable to “DMV” to:

Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles
Vehicle Title Section
555 Wright Way
Carson City, NV 89711-0700⁵

Applying at a DMV Office

You can also bring Form VP 012 to any Nevada DMV office. The advantage: the DMV representative can witness your signature on the spot, so you skip the outside notary and its fee. Bring the completed form, a valid government-issued photo ID, and your payment.⁴ The title itself is still printed and mailed from Carson City, so you won’t leave with it in hand.

What It Costs

The duplicate title fee is $20 when the vehicle stays in Nevada. If the vehicle is not physically located or registered in Nevada, the fee is $35.¹ Mailing the application adds up to $15 for outside notarization on top of that. Filing in person avoids the extra cost.

How Long It Takes

The DMV has a significant backlog on title work.⁴ For anything mailed in, the DMV asks you to allow four to six weeks before following up. Don’t cancel your payment or resubmit the application during that window.⁵ If six weeks pass with nothing in the mail, call the Vehicle Title Section at (775) 684-4810.

If the Vehicle Has a Lien

An active lien recorded in Nevada’s Electronic Lien and Title (ELT) system blocks you from requesting a duplicate at all. Only the lienholder can order a printed title, through their ELT service provider, and Form VP 012 cannot be used to work around that.⁶

Once the loan is paid off, the lienholder releases the lien electronically and the DMV automatically prints a clean paper title and mails it to you at no charge.⁶ If you just paid off your loan and need the title, contact your lender about releasing the lien rather than filing a duplicate application.

For older paper-title loans established before July 1, 2017, the process depends on who holds the physical title. If the lienholder has it, they sign it over to you after payoff. If no paper title exists, the lienholder completes and notarizes a Lien Release (Form VP 186), which you then submit with a duplicate title application.⁷⁸

Confirm Your Address First

The DMV mails your duplicate title to the address it has on file, and USPS mail forwarding does not apply to DMV documents. If you’ve moved since your last DMV transaction, update your address before filing. Nevada law requires you to notify the DMV of a move within 30 days.⁹

You can update online through a free MyDMV account or in person at any DMV office for $3.50. Select both your driver’s license and your vehicles when you update; vehicle addresses don’t change automatically with a license update.⁹

Deceased Owners and Power of Attorney

If the owner has died and there’s no probate case or trust, the heir claims the vehicle with the Affidavit for Transfer of Title for Estates Without Probate (Form VP 024). If the vehicle has a designated transfer-on-death beneficiary, the beneficiary uses the Transfer on Death Beneficiary’s Affidavit for Title (Form VP 241) with a certified copy of the death certificate. A separate duplicate title application is not required in TOD cases even when the original title is missing.¹⁰ The title fee for these transfers is $20.

If the owner is alive but cannot get to a DMV office, someone else can act using a Power of Attorney (Form VP 136). It requires original signatures and must be notarized or witnessed by an authorized DMV representative. Photocopies are not accepted, and no changes can be made after signing.¹¹

Do Not Sell the Car Without the Title

If you’re getting a duplicate because you want to sell the vehicle, wait for the title before completing the sale. Nevada’s official Bill of Sale (Form VP 104) states that a certificate of title or other ownership documents must accompany it, so a bill of sale alone does not transfer ownership.¹² Nevada also treats fraudulently obtaining a duplicate title with intent to defraud or to use the document as security as a criminal offense under NRS 482.438.¹³ The duplicate process is there to replace a legitimately lost title, nothing more.

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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. Application for Duplicate Nevada Certificate of Title
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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. Turbo Titles
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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. Appointments
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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. Vehicle Title and Ownership – Section: Duplicate Title
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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. Contact the Nevada DMV – Section: Mailed/Faxed Documents
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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. Electronic Lien and Title
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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. Loan Payoffs and Lease Buyouts
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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. VP-186 Lien Release
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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. Address Changes
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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. Vehicle Beneficiary Transfer on Death
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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. Power of Attorney Form VP136
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Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles. Bill of Sale VP104
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Nevada Legislature. Nevada Revised Statutes 482.438 – Obtaining Duplicate Certificate of Title to Use as Security With Intent to Defraud Prohibited; Penalties