Free South Carolina Trailer Bill of Sale Template

A South Carolina trailer bill of sale records a private trailer sale. The department names it directly in its trailer guidance, which is unusual, and puts it at the front of the titling process.

Yes, to title one. The department states that registering a trailer or camper requires the trailer to be titled, and that to title it you are required to present the bill of sale and the previous title.

Where no previous title exists, two forms fill the gap: an affidavit of ownership for a motor vehicle, trailer, or mobile home, and an identification verification for a title without a previous title.

Separately, if the assignment on the back of the title has no section for the sales price, a bill of sale must accompany the paperwork regardless.

Forty-five days is generous by national standards, and easy to lose anyway.

The forty-five day rule

State law requires a newly purchased vehicle to be registered within 45 days of the purchase date, and the title application warns that failing to do so brings penalty fees on top of the usual charges.

Property tax comes first

You contact your county office to have a property tax bill generated, pay it, and give the department the paid receipt in your name before a plate is issued.

Which plate a trailer gets

The department issues trailer plates for camper, travel, horse, boat, utility, pole, farm trailers, and semitrailers. Boat, utility, pole, and farm trailers can take either a permanent or a biennial plate.

Campers with living space

The camper and travel trailer plate covers trailers with living space, including horse trailers with living quarters, and carries no weight requirement at all.

Signing the application

The applicant certifies under penalty of perjury that all information is true and current. Electronic or digital signatures are acceptable.

Titles without plates

A title can be issued without a registration, so the department titles items that may never carry a plate.

Names joined by and

Where two people appear on the title in an and relationship, both must sign any related form or attend a branch together.

If the seller finances it

Where the buyer is paying in instalments, the seller completes the lienholder section of the title application and is treated as the lienholder until the balance clears.

The order below follows the department’s own sequence.

1. Take the bill of sale and the previous title from the seller.
2. Where no previous title exists, complete the affidavit of ownership and the identification verification.
3. Contact your county office for a property tax bill and pay it.
4. Complete the title application, signing under penalty of perjury.
5. Visit a branch office within 45 days with the paid tax receipt and payment.

Fees and the maintenance fee are set by the state and change from time to time, so confirm current figures before you go.

Give the year, make, model, and body type, the identification number, the sale price, any trade-in amount, the date of sale, and both parties’ names, addresses, and signatures.

State the sale price plainly, since the department uses it to work out the maintenance fee due at titling.

Sign in ink or digitally, and hold on to your copy until the title arrives.