63-21-11 - Exceptions to requirement of certificate of title.

§ 63-21-11. Exceptions to requirement of certificate of title.
 

(1)  No certificate of title need be obtained for: 

(a) A vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home owned by the United States or any agency thereof; 

(b) A vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home owned by a manufacturer or dealer and held for sale, even though incidentally moved on the highway or used for purposes of testing or demonstration, or a vehicle used by a manufacturer solely for testing; 

(c) A vehicle, manufactured home or mobile home owned by a nonresident of this state and not required by law to be registered in this state; 

(d) A vehicle regularly engaged in the interstate transportation of persons or property for which a currently effective certificate of title has been issued in another state; 

(e) A vehicle moved solely by animal power; 

(f) An implement of husbandry; 

(g) Special mobile equipment; 

(h) A pole trailer; 

(i) Utility trailers of less than five thousand (5,000) pounds gross vehicle weight. 

(2)  Nothing in this section shall prohibit the issuance of a certificate of title to the nonresident owner of an all-terrain vehicle that is purchased in this state. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 8125-25; Laws,  1968, ch. 531, § 5; Laws, 1987, ch. 338, § 1; Laws, 1999, ch. 556, § 5; Laws, 2005, ch. 335, § 3, eff from and after July 1, 2005.