ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION
810-5-1-.442. Vehicles which are Specifically Exempt from
Apportioned Registration.
(1) Government-owned vehicles.
(2) City pickup and delivery vehicles.
(3) Buses used for chartered parties.
(4) Recreational Vehicles (defined as a vehicle used for personal
pleasure or travel by an individual or his family).
(5) Vehicles operating with a restricted plate.
- (a) The plan defines restricted plate as a registration that
has time (less than a registration year), geographic area, mileage, or commodity
restrictions.
- (b) The Alabama "F1" or "F2" plate is restricted and that Alabama
law allows this plate to be used only by a farmer transporting farm products
or transporting personal property of the farmer for his use on his farm up
to 42,000 pounds.
- (c) The Alabama "01" or "02" plate is restricted in that it may
only be used on trucks owned and used by any person for transporting forest
products from the point of severance to the sawmill, a papermill or to a concentration
yard. (NOTE: Alabama law has further restricted the use of above plates to
trucks, not truck tractors).
- (d) Dealer plates are restricted.
- (e) Alabama and Mississippi have an informal agreement whereby
Mississippi recognizes full fee registered Alabama trucks or truck tractors
to haul logs in an interstate movement into or from Mississippi. Likewise,
Alabama recognizes the interstate movement of logs into or from Alabama by
a full fee registered Mississippi truck or truck tractor. Note that this agreement
involves the transportation of logs (not sawdust or similar products) and
does not permit intrastate operation in the state in which the licensee is
not licensed. (Authority: §32-6-56)
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