8-128. Registration of vehicles, exceptions.
8-128
8-128. Registration of vehicles,
exceptions.
(a) The following need not be registered under this act, any:
(1) Implement of husbandry;
(2) all-terrain vehicle;
(3) micro utility truck;
(4) golf cart;
(5) work-site utility vehicle;
(6) road roller or road machinery temporarily
operated or moved upon the highways;
(7) municipally owned fire truck;
(8) privately
owned fire truck subject to a mutual aid agreement with a
municipality;
(9) school bus owned and operated by a school district or
a nonpublic school which has the name of the municipality, school district or
nonpublic school plainly painted thereon;
(10) farm trailer used in carrying not more than 6,000
pounds owned by a
person engaged in farming, which trailer is used exclusively by the owner to
transport agricultural products produced by such owner or commodities purchased
by the owner for use on the farm owned or rented by the owner of such trailer
and the weight of any such farm trailer, plus the cargo weight of 6,000 pounds
or less, shall not be considered in determining the gross weight for which the
truck or truck tractor propelling the same shall be registered; or
(11) farm trailer used and designed for transporting hay or
forage from a
field to a storage area or from a storage area to a feedlot, which is only
incidentally moved or operated upon the highways, except that this paragraph
shall not apply to a farm semitrailer.
(b) Self-propelled cranes
where the crane operator on a job site operates the controls of such crane
from a permanent housing or module on the crane and the crane is not used
for the transportation of property, except the
property that is required for the operation of the crane
itself and earth moving equipment
which are
equipped with pneumatic tires may be moved on the highways of this state
from one job location to another, or to or from places of storage,
delivery or repair, without complying with the provisions of the law
relating to registration and display of license plates but shall comply
with all the other requirements of the law relating to motor vehicles.
(c) Oil well servicing, oil well clean-out or oil well drilling machinery
or equipment need not be registered under this act but shall comply with all
the other requirements of the law relating to motor vehicles.
(d) A truck permanently mounted with a hydraulic concrete pump and placing
boom may be moved on the highways of this state from one job location to
another, or to or from places of storage delivery or repair, without being
registered under this act, but shall comply with all the other requirements of
the law relating to motor vehicles. The provisions of this subsection shall not
apply to ready-mix concrete trucks.
History: L. 1929, ch. 81, § 6;
L. 1933, ch. 72, § 1;
L.1957, ch. 58, § 1;
L. 1961, ch. 46, § 1;
L. 1967, ch. 57, § 5;
L. 1972, ch. 19, § 1;
L. 1976, ch. 40, § 3;
L. 1977, ch. 29, § 1;
L. 1980, ch. 30, § 1;
L. 1981, ch. 34, § 1;
L. 1984, ch. 27, § 2;
L. 1988, ch. 40, § 2;
L. 1994, ch. 235, § 2;
L. 1995, ch. 61, § 1;
L. 1996, ch. 220, § 4;
L. 1997, ch. 119, § 2;
L. 2001, ch. 41, § 1;
L. 2001, ch. 211, § 1;
L. 2006, ch. 136, § 1;
L. 2007, ch. 140, § 5;
L. 2008, ch. 167, § 4;
L. 2009, ch. 119, § 5; July 1.