Overview

This is an image of a vehicle permit. It is green and has a vehicle portion on the left and a plate portion on the right. At the bottom of the plate portion, you will find the signature of the registered vehicle owner.

Your vehicle permit also known as the vehicle ownership is the green piece of newspaper that you get when your vehicle is registered with ServiceOntario. Information technology is proof that you lot are the registered vehicle possessor.

It is important to:

  • sign the plate portion of the let
  • keep the original vehicle let safety (you can leave a hardcopy of the original signed permit in the vehicle)
  • brand sure data on the vehicle permit is upwards-to-date

When to update your vehicle allow

You need to update your vehicle permit if you:

  • moved
  • changed your name
  • lost your plate, information technology was stolen or damaged
  • sold your vehicle or transferred ownership from single to articulation or vice-versa
  • accept to change the status of your vehicle
  • contradistinct the concrete appearance of your vehicle
  • see a typo

Change your address

You need to alter your address inside six days of moving. Fifty-fifty though y'all change your address online, you must still visit a ServiceOntario location to exchange your existing permit for ane showing your new address. A replacement fee may be charged if you exercise non bring your existing permit simply wish to receive a new one.

For more data, take a wait at how to change an address online.

Alter your name

You lot need to change your proper noun on your vehicle let within 6 days of receiving proof of name alter. For example, if yous got married, you can update your name on your vehicle permit once you go your marriage certificate.

To change your proper noun on your vehicle permit, you need to go to a ServiceOntario location and bring:

  • a slice of ID (for example, your Ontario driver'southward licence)
  • original vehicle permit
  • supporting documents (if required)
    • If the name on your ID is different from the name you desire on your vehicle permit, you need to bring in ane of the documents as proof.

Modify vehicle information

You can change the following information at a ServiceOntario location:

  • status of plate (lost, stolen, damaged)
  • status of vehicle (sold)
  • vehicle condition from unfit to fit
  • vehicle colour

Notation: Depending on the information you are changing, you volition need to bring different documents. Please review the department that applies to your state of affairs to learn more near the documents you will need to bring.

Status of your plate

Y'all can change the status of your plates if they were:

  • lost, stolen or damaged (for a stolen declaration, police services information is required – visit your local constabulary services or if you lot have a phone or online study, include the occurrence number on the grade)
  • reported and returned past police force
  • discrete or returned for a refund

Yous need to get to a ServiceOntario location and bring your original vehicle permit to update the data.

Status of your vehicle

Yous can change the status of your vehicle when:

  • y'all sell your vehicle
  • your vehicle has been inspected past a licensed mechanic

If yous sell your vehicle, you will need to alter the status of your vehicle to "sold". You need to become to a ServiceOntario location and bring:

  • original vehicle permit
  • a letter of the alphabet that includes the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), when the vehicle was sold and to whom it was sold.

Change vehicle status from unfit to fit

When you go far an accident and the impairment to your vehicle is meaning, or your vehicle is inspected by police force and deemed unsafe, the police will record your vehicle as unsafe and unfit to drive. The status of your plate may change and yous may need to become new plates.

After your vehicle has passed a safety inspection, you can modify its status back to fit so you can bulldoze it again.

To alter the status of your vehicle to fit, you need to become to a ServiceOntario location and bring:

  • original vehicle permit
  • your insurance company name and policy number
  • Safety Standards Certificate, SR-E-214, signed past authorized mechanic

Change your vehicle color

You need to change the colour information on your vehicle allow within vi days. To change the colour on your vehicle permit, you lot need to go to a ServiceOntario location and bring:

  • a piece of ID
  • original vehicle allow

Make corrections to your vehicle allow

If any information on your vehicle permit is not accurate, you lot need to make the changes as soon as possible at a ServiceOntario location. You will need to bring:

  • piece of ID (for example your Ontario driver's licence)
  • original vehicle permit
  • supporting documents (if required)

Price and delivery

Cost

$0

There is no cost to make corrections or changes to your vehicle allow when you present the current original permit.

Commitment

You have to pick upwards your vehicle permit in-person at a ServiceOntario location.

Supporting documents

When correcting data such as the brand, model, twelvemonth or VIN of the vehicle, yous will need one of the post-obit documents:

  • original vehicle manufacturer's warranty
  • copy of manufacturer's invoice
  • original or re-create of the bill/certificate of auction from the original selling dealer
  • letter of the alphabet from an authorized dealer for your brand of vehicle verifying the right vehicle registration number of the vehicle
  • copy of document of championship/certificate of origin
  • re-create of new vehicle information argument