Motor Vehicles Exempt from Registration

All motor vehicles and trailers used upon the highways and roads of the State of Nebraska must be registered, with the following exceptions:

• Off-road vehicles including, but not limited to:
• ATV
• Electric Personal Assistive Devices
• Electric Scooters
• Garden tractors
• Golf carts
• Go-carts
• Minibikes
• Mopeds
• Riding lawn mowers
• Vehicles which run on rails or tracks;
• Farm tractors;
• Self-propelled equipment designed and used exclusively to carry and apply fertilizer, chemicals, or related products to agricultural soil and crops;
• Agricultural floater-spreader implements and other implements of husbandry designed for and used primarily for tilling the soil and harvesting crops or feeding livestock;
• Hay spreaders and power unit hay grinders or a combination which includes a power unit and a hay grinder when operated without cargo;
• Welder if permanently mounted on a device that is towed;
• Pole diggers;
• Portable scales;
• Tow dollies and convertor gears;

Road and general purpose construction and maintenance machinery not designed or used for the transportation of persons or property including, but not limited to:

• ditch digging apparatus
• asphalt spreaders
• bucket loaders
• leveling graders
• earthmoving carryalls and equipment
• power shovels
• crawler tractors

For information regarding boats exempt from registration, refer to Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.

Questions regarding Vehicles Exempt From Registration may be addressed to E-Mail or by contacting this office at (402) 471-3918.

This page last revised 9/14/2009.