You need DD Form 2507, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Notice of Vehicle Impoundment. Its official title is DD Form 2507, Notice Of Vehicle Impoundment, May 2000.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
Finally, decide how you will complete it. You can type into a fillable file or print a blank and write by hand, and the rest of this page walks you through both paths in order.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
Check the edition before you type a word. The date appears on the face of the form; it should read not stated. When it does not, discard the file and take a fresh copy from this page. Department-level revisions replace the blank across all services simultaneously, which means an old printout can be out of step everywhere.
Fill every box as you come to it. If an item does not apply, enter N/A — an empty field looks like an oversight, and the form comes back to you. Watch the date fields especially: use the format the form specifies, not your habitual one.
Do not skip past the Privacy Act Statement. It is placed ahead of the personal data fields on purpose: it explains under what authority you are being asked, what happens to the information, and what follows if you decline. Take the minute it costs.
Finish with the certification. Print the form and sign in ink, or apply a digital signature with your CAC if the receiving office accepts one. Do not type your name in the signature box and consider it done; that is a name, not a signature. Date the block immediately after signing.
Run a final pass over the form. The errors that send it back are the same ones every time: old edition, gaps in required fields, unreadable handwriting on a scan, non-conforming dates, no signature or no date.
If a particular field puzzles you, read the instructions printed on the form first, then go to not stated. When the two disagree, follow the directive.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 2 pages and about 35 entries.
All of it downloads free. When you are ready to work, do this: save the file locally, then open it in a full pdf application. Browsers often ignore field properties, and you can lose everything you typed.
What the form asks for
- Press this Reset button to clear data from all fields.
- 1. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- 2. To.
- 3. From.
- 3. Vehicle identification. a. Date removed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 3.c. Make.
- 3.d. Model.
- 3.e. Vehicle identification number.
- 3.f. Decal number.
- 3.g. Vehicle license. (1) Number.
- 3.g.(2) State.
- 4. Location from where vehicle was removed.
- 5. Location where vehicle is stored.
- 6.a.(1) Installation Law Enforcement Office Telephone number.
- 6.a.(2) Installation Law Enforcement Office Address.
- 7. Authorizing Official. a. Typed name (last, first, middle initial).
- 7.b. Signature.
- 8.a. Signature of vehicle owner.
- 8.b. Date signed (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 9.a. First lien, Mortgage, or encumbrance. (1) Name of lienholder.
- 9.a.(2) Address of lienholder (street, city, state and zip code).
- 9.a.(3) Amount of lien.
- 9.b. Second lien, Mortgage, or encumbrance. (1) Name of lienholder.
- 9.b.(2) Address of lienholder (street, city, state and zip code).
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2507?
- DD Form 2507, Notice Of Vehicle Impoundment, May 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?