§ 27-14-703 - Vehicles subject to registration -- Exceptions.
27-14-703. Vehicles subject to registration -- Exceptions.
Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer when driven or moved upon a highway and every mobile home shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter except:
(1) Any vehicle driven or moved upon a highway in conformance with the provisions of this chapter relating to manufacturers, transporters, dealers, lienholders, or nonresidents or under a temporary registration permit issued by the Office of Motor Vehicle as authorized in 27-14-708;
(2) Any vehicle which is driven or moved upon a highway only for the purpose of crossing such highway from one (1) property to another;
(3) (A) Any implement of husbandry that is only incidentally operated or moved upon a highway whether or not it is subject to registration under this chapter.
(B) Incidental use may be established by an affidavit of the owner of the implement of husbandry submitted to the Department of Finance and Administration along with payment of the gross receipts or use tax imposed on the implement of husbandry when the owner applies for and receives a certificate of title to the implement of husbandry.
(C) The transportation of logs or timber upon a highway from the point of severance to a point in this state at which the logs or timber first undergo any processing, preparation for processing, conversion, or transformation from their natural or severed state shall not be incidental operation of the implement of husbandry upon a highway.
(D) An affidavit to establish incidental use is not required if the implement of husbandry was originally manufactured as an implement of husbandry;
(4) Any special mobile equipment as defined in 27-14-211;
(5) Any vehicle which is propelled exclusively by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, though not operated upon rails;
(6) Manufactured homes or mobile homes for which the certificate of title has been cancelled under 27-14-1603; and
(7) No certificates of title need be obtained for any vehicle of a type subject to registration owned by the federal government.