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Vehicle Registration Exemptions - Illinois

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Illinois registration policy: Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer and pole trailer when driven or moved upon a highway must be registered, except:

  • Any vehicle driven or moved upon a highway in conformance with the provisions relating to manufacturers, transporters, dealers, lienholders or nonresidents or under a temporary registration permit issued by the Secretary of State.
  • Any implement of husbandry whether of a type otherwise subject to registration or not which is only incidentally operated or moved upon a highway, which shall include a not-for-hire movement for the purpose of delivering farm commodities to a place of first processing or sale, or to a place of storage.
  • Any special mobile equipment.
  • Any vehicle propelled exclusively by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires but not operated on rails.
  • Any vehicle which is equipped and used exclusively as a pumper, ladder truck, rescue vehicle, searchlight truck, or other fire apparatus, but not a vehicle of a type which would otherwise be subject to registration as a vehicle of the first division.
  • Any vehicle owned and operated by the federal government and externally displays evidence of federal ownership.
  • Any converter dolly or tow dolly which merely serves as substitute wheels for another legally licensed vehicle.
  • Any house trailer found to be an abandoned mobile home under the Abandoned Mobile Home Act [210 ILCS 117/1 et seq.].
  • Any vehicle that is not properly registered or does not have registration plates or digital registration plates issued to the owner or operator affixed thereto, or that does have registration plates or digital registration plates issued to the owner or operator affixed thereto but the plates are not appropriate for the weight of the vehicle, provided that this exemption applies only while the vehicle is being transported or operated by a towing service and has a third tow plate affixed to it.

Additionally, the following vehicles are exempt from state vehicle registration requirements.

Reciprocity

Any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer or pole trailer need not be registered provided it is operated interstate and in accordance with the following provisions and any rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto:

  • A nonresident owner, owning any foreign registered vehicle of a type otherwise subject to registration, may operate or permit the operation of such vehicle within Illinois in interstate commerce without registering such vehicle in, or paying any fees to, Illinois subject to the condition that such vehicle at all times when operated in Illinois is operated pursuant to a reciprocity agreement, arrangement or declaration by Illinois, and further subject to the condition that such vehicle at all times when operated in Illinois is duly registered in, and displays upon it, a valid registration card and registration plate or plates or digital registration plate or plates issued for such vehicle in the place of residence of such owner and is issued and maintains in such vehicle a valid Illinois reciprocity permit as required by the Secretary of State, and provided like privileges are afforded to residents of Illinois by the State of residence of such owner.
    • This reciprocity exception does not apply to any nonresident including any foreign corporation carrying on business within Illinois and owning and regularly operating in such business any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer within Illinois in intrastate commerce.
  • Any motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer and pole trailer operated interstate need not be registered in Illinois, provided:
    • The vehicle is properly registered in another State pursuant to law or to a reciprocity agreement, arrangement or declaration; or
    • Such vehicle is part of a fleet of vehicles owned or operated by the same person who registers such fleet of vehicles pro rata among the various States in which such fleet operates; or
    • Such vehicle is part of a fleet of vehicles, a portion of which are registered with the Secretary of State of Illinois in accordance with an agreement or arrangement concurred in by the Secretary of State of Illinois based on one or more of the following factors:
      • Ratio of miles in Illinois as against total miles in all jurisdictions;
      • Situs or base of a vehicle, or where it is principally garaged, or from whence it is principally dispatched or where the movements of such vehicle usually originate;
      • Situs of the residence of the owner or operator thereof, or of his principal office or offices, or of his places of business;
      • The routes traversed and whether regular or irregular routes are traversed, and the jurisdictions traversed and served; and
      • Such other factors as may be deemed material by the Secretary and the motor vehicle administrators of the other jurisdictions involved in such apportionment.

Vehicles purchased out-of-state (45-day exception and temporary registration plate)

A resident of Illinois who purchases a vehicle in another state and transports the vehicle to Illinois shall apply for registration and certificate of title as soon as practicable, but in no event more than 45 days after the purchase of the vehicle.

If an Illinois motorist who purchased a vehicle from an out-of-state licensed dealer is unable to meet the 45-day deadline due to a delay in paperwork from the seller, that motorist may obtain an Illinois temporary registration plate with: (i) proof of purchase; (ii) proof of meeting the Illinois driver’s license or identification card requirement; and (iii) proof that Illinois title and registration fees have been paid. If fees have not been paid, the motorist may pay them to obtain the temporary registration plate. The owner of such a vehicle shall display any temporary permit or registration issued in accordance with Section 3-407 [625 ILCS 5/3-407].

Citations

  • 625 ILCS 5/3-402 A. Vehicles subject to registration; exceptions
  • 625 ILCS 5/3-402 B. Vehicles subject to registration; exceptions
  • 625 ILCS 5/3-402 C. Vehicles subject to registration; exceptions
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