Title XIX, MOTOR VEHICLES, WATERCRAFT AND AVIATION

301.025. Personal property taxes and federal heavy vehicle use tax, paid when — tax receipt forms — failure to pay personal property tax, effect of, notification requirements, reinstatement fee, appeals — rulemaking, procedure. — 1. No state registration license to operate any mo…

301.029. Implements of husbandry, movement on highway permitted, when — definition. — 1. Any self-propelled sprayer, floater, or other form of implement of husbandry that is used for spraying chemicals or spreading fertilizer for agricultural purposes may be moved or operated on …

301.030. Motor vehicle registration periods — commercial plates, requirements — proration authorized for larger commercial vehicles. — 1. The director shall provide for the retention of license plates by the owners of motor vehicles, other than commercial motor vehicles, and shal…

301.031. Local commercial motor vehicle hauling solid waste, extended operational limit. — Notwithstanding the twenty-five mile* operations limit imposed in section 301.010 upon local commercial motor vehicles, a local commercial motor vehicle licensed for forty-eight thousand po…

301.032. Fleet vehicle registration, director to establish system — procedures — special license plates — exempt from inspection requirements, when — leasing company may operate as registered fleet owner, when, requirements — rulemaking authority. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisi…

301.035. Commercial vehicles licensed for twelve thousand pounds or less, staggered registration periods — fees prorated. — 1. Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, commencing January 1, 1974, commercial motor vehicles to be licensed for twelve thousand pounds or less…

301.040. Notice of motor vehicle registration — applications. — The director of revenue shall notify each registered motor vehicle owner by mail, at the last known address, within an appropriate period prior to the beginning of the registration period to which he has been assigne…

301.041. Reciprocity agreement, registered commercial vehicles — procedures — failure to display plates, penalty — director may promulgate rules — validity of previously issued plates. — 1. All commercial motor vehicles and trailers registered pursuant to this section or to be op…

301.050. Registration fees — penalty for delinquency. — All registration fees shall be payable to the director of revenue and shall accompany the application for registration. A penalty fee of five dollars shall be paid on all delinquent registrations. Any motor vehicle on which …

301.055. Annual registration fees — motor vehicles other than commercial. — 1. The annual registration fee for motor vehicles other than commercial motor vehicles is: Less than 12 horsepower $18.00 12 horsepower and less than 24 horsepower 21.00 24 horsepower and less than 36 hor…

301.057. Annual registration fee — property-carrying commercial vehicles — exemption. — The annual registration fee for property-carrying commercial motor vehicles, not including property-carrying local commercial motor vehicles, or land improvement contractors' commercial motor …

301.058. Annual registration fees for local property-carrying commercial motor vehicles — exempt vehicles — improper registration, when, penalties. — 1. The annual registration fee for property-carrying local commercial motor vehicles, other than a land improvement contractors' c…

301.059. Annual registration fees — passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles (not including passenger-carrying local commercial motor vehicles, school buses or local transit buses). — The annual registration fee for passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles (not including …

301.061. Annual registration fees — passenger-carrying local commercial motor vehicles. — The annual registration fee for passenger-carrying local commercial motor vehicles based on seating capacity is: 10 passengers or less $ 50.50 11 to 18 passengers 90.50 19 to 25 passengers 1…

301.062. Local log trucks, registration fees — extended distance log truck permit, additional fee. — 1. The annual registration fee for a local log truck, registered pursuant to this chapter, is three hundred dollars. 2. A local log truck may receive an extended distance local lo…

301.063. Annual registration fees — local transit buses. — The annual registration fee for local transit buses based on seating capacity is: 40 passengers or less $ 25.50 41 to 45 passengers 35.50 Over 45 passengers 50.50 ­­-------- (L. 1969 S.B. 242)

301.064. Land improvement contractors' commercial motor vehicles, registration, fee — license plates. — 1. The annual registration fee for a land improvement contractors' commercial motor vehicle is three hundred * fifty dollars. The maximum gross weight for which such a vehicle …

301.065. Annual registration fees — school buses. — The annual registration fee for each school bus, twenty-five dollars, fifty cents. ­­-------- (L. 1969 S.B. 242)

301.066. Annual registration fees for shuttle buses, recreation and vanpool motor vehicles — plates, color and design. — The annual registration fee for shuttle buses, recreational motor vehicles and vanpool vehicles is thirty-two dollars. The advisory committee established in se…

301.067. Trailer or semitrailer registration required, fee — optional period fee for certain trailers and semitrailers — permanent registration allowed, procedure — fees for recreational trailers, payable when. — 1. For each trailer or semitrailer there shall be paid an annual fe…

301.069. Driveaway license plates, restriction on use — annual driveaway license or choice of biennial license, fees — application, contents — violation, penalty. — 1. A driveaway license plate may not be used on a vehicle used or operated on a highway except for the purpose of t…

301.070. Computation of fees. — 1. In determining fees based on the horsepower of vehicles propelled by internal combustion engines, the horsepower shall be computed and recorded upon the following formula established by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce: Square the bor…

301.071. Disabled veteran license plates, eligibility for. — Any person who has served in the Armed Forces of the United States and who has been honorably discharged or separated therefrom and who has a service connected disability of such a nature that it would, if it had been i…

301.072. Application for disabled veteran's plates, how made. — Any such person shall make application for the special license plates on a form prescribed by the director of revenue, and shall submit the application and proof of his disability in the form of a statement from the …

301.073. Plates, how issued, form of. — The director of revenue shall thereupon issue license plates, a registration number and the words "Disabled Veteran". The advisory committee established in section 301.129* shall determine the characteristic features of the license plate, e…

301.074. Duration of license period — annual proof of inspection and disability, exceptions — limitation on issuance. — License plates issued under sections 301.071 to 301.075 shall be valid for the duration of the veteran's disability. Each such applicant issued license plates u…

301.075. No fee for one set of disabled veteran plates — fee for subsequent sets. — There shall be no fee charged for one set of license plates issued to an eligible person under the provisions of sections 301.071 to 301.075. A second or subsequent set of license plates issued to…

301.080. Registration period in case of expired license, affidavit of nonoperation to be filed, when, failure to file, effect — period for new license. — 1. Upon application for registration of a motor vehicle, other than a commercial motor vehicle, by an owner who holds license …

301.090. Registration fees — collection and deposit. — All fees for the registration of motor vehicles, trailers, certificates of title and motorcycles provided for herein shall be collected by the director of revenue and deposited with the state treasurer to the credit of the st…

301.100. Registration of motor vehicles operated for first time in state. — 1. Motor vehicles not previously registered in Missouri and operated for the first time on the public highways of this state may be initially registered for less than a twelve-month period at the director…

301.110. Director may change registration periods to equalize work. — 1. Whenever the director shall determine from an increase or decrease in the number of registrations of all types of motor vehicles in any given month that the volume of clerical work of registration of all typ…

301.112. Service agent obtaining certificate of ownership for owner, definition. — For the purpose of sections 301.112 to 301.119, "motor vehicle title service agent" shall be deemed to mean any person who acts as an agent for a fee in obtaining a certificate of ownership of a mo…

301.114. Service agent required to obtain license, form, qualifications, fee. — 1. No person shall carry on or conduct a business, the purpose of which is to act as an agent for a fee in obtaining a certificate of ownership of a motor vehicle, unless licensed to do so by the depa…

301.116. Records required to be kept by service agents, time period — records open for inspection. — 1. Every licensee shall maintain for three years a record of: (1) Date of application of certificate of title of vehicles; (2) Name and address of the owner; (3) Name of the manuf…

301.117. Bond requirements for service agents — paid out, when — liability limitation. — 1. The application for licensure shall be accompanied by a corporate surety bond in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars and conditioned on the faithful performance of all requirements …

301.119. Revocation or suspension of license, procedure, grounds — violations, a misdemeanor. — 1. The department shall suspend or revoke a license, upon notice and reasonable opportunity to be heard, as otherwise provided by law if it finds: (1) The license was fraudulently proc…

301.120. License plates returned, when. — When the owner of a motor vehicle moves the vehicle to another state, he shall return the license plates to the director of revenue within ninety days or upon the expiration of the period of reciprocity granted by the new state of residen…

301.121. Return of plates, partial refund. — 1. When the owner of a commercial motor vehicle registered in excess of fifty-four thousand pounds returns the license plates to the director of revenue as provided in section 301.120, but not for a license suspension or revocation, th…

301.125. Advisory committee established — purpose to develop uniform designs and common colors of license plates, members — dissolved, when. — There is hereby established an advisory committee for the department of revenue, which shall exist solely to develop uniform designs and …

301.130. License plates, required slogan and information — special plates — plates, how displayed — tabs to be used — rulemaking authority, procedure. — 1. The director of revenue, upon receipt of a proper application for registration, required fees and any other information whic…

301.131. Historic motor vehicles, permanent registration, fee — license plates — annual mileage allowed, record to be kept — penalty. — 1. Any motor vehicle over twenty-five years old which is owned solely as a collector's item and which is used and intended to be used for exhibi…

301.132. Street rod and custom vehicle certificate of title — requirements — fee — safety inspection required — plates issued, content — use of blue dot tail lights. — 1. For purposes of this section, "street rod" is a vehicle older than 1949 or a vehicle manufactured after 1948 …

301.133. Special mobile equipment exempt — when permitted on highways, exception. — 1. Special mobile equipment 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…

301.134. Daughters of the American Revolution special license plates, application, fee. — 1. Daughters of the American Revolution who have obtained an emblem-use authorization statement from the Missouri State Society Daughters of the American Revolution may apply for Missouri St…

301.135. Personalized license plate — design and color — fee. — Any motor vehicle which is eligible for permanent registration pursuant to the provisions of section 301.131 may also be licensed by the owner thereof with personalized license plates in the same manner as that other…

301.136. Camping or fifth-wheel trailers over 25 years old, permanent registration of — registration of historic license plates. — 1. Any camping or fifth-wheel trailer, as defined in section 407.1320, that is over twenty-five years old may be permanently registered upon payment …