Montana Code Annotated
Part 3. Registration
61-3-313. Motor vehicles exempt from registration renewal

61-3-313. Motor vehicles exempt from registration renewal. (1) The following motor vehicles are exempt from the registration renewal requirements of 61-3-312:
(a) motor vehicles owned or leased and operated by the government of the United States or by the state of Montana or a political subdivision of the state;
(b) motor vehicles registered as part of a fleet under 61-3-318; and
(c) apportionable motor vehicles registered as part of a fleet, as defined in 61-3-712, that is subject to the provisions of 61-3-711 through 61-3-733.
(2) Unless a transfer of ownership occurs, a travel trailer, trailer, semitrailer, pole trailer, motorcycle, or quadricycle, including a motorcycle or quadricycle registered only for off-highway use under Title 23, chapter 2, part 8, is permanently registered.
History: En. 53-154 by Sec. 1, Ch. 74, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 53-154; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 82, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 516, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 517, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 724, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 209, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 42, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 88, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 393, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 399, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 31, Ch. 592, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 70, Ch. 542, L. 2005; amd. Secs. 53, 145, Ch. 596, L. 2005.

Structure Montana Code Annotated

Montana Code Annotated

Title 61. Motor Vehicles

Chapter 3. Certificates of Title, Registration, and Taxation of Motor Vehicles

Part 3. Registration

61-3-301. Registration -- license plate required -- display

61-3-302. Residents operating motor vehicles under licenses issued by any state other than Montana forbidden -- vehicles exempt from registration -- exceptions

61-3-303. Original registration -- process -- fees

61-3-304. Repealed

61-3-305. Repealed

61-3-306. through 61-3-310 reserved

61-3-311. Registration -- time periods

61-3-312. Renewal of registration -- exceptions -- grace period

61-3-313. Motor vehicles exempt from registration renewal

61-3-314. Registration period

61-3-315. Repealed

61-3-316. New registrations

61-3-317. New registration required for transferred motor vehicle -- grace period -- penalty -- display of proof of purchase

61-3-318. Fleet registration period

61-3-319. Registration of custom-built motorcycle -- exemptions

61-3-320. Registration -- custom vehicle, street rod, originally equipped older vehicle, kit vehicle, or specially constructed vehicle

61-3-321. Registration fees of vehicles and vessels -- certain vehicles exempt from registration fees -- disposition of fees -- definition

61-3-322. Registration receipts -- issuance

61-3-323. Definitions

61-3-324. Fleet registration -- application -- additions to and deletions from fleet

61-3-325. Fleet registration -- license plates

61-3-326. through 61-3-330 reserved

61-3-331. Assignment of license plates

61-3-332. Standard license plates

61-3-333. Replacing license plates or decals

61-3-334. Transfer of ownership of motor vehicle -- duty to remove plates

61-3-335. Transfer of license plates to another motor vehicle

61-3-336. Recycling license plates

61-3-337. Permanently registered motor homes -- plate restriction

61-3-338. Contract for manufacture and distribution of license plates

61-3-339. and 61-3-340 reserved

61-3-341. Lost certificates

61-3-342. Repealed

61-3-343. and 61-3-344 reserved

61-3-345. Motor vehicle computer system

61-3-346. County motor vehicle computer committee

61-3-347. Duties of county motor vehicle computer committee