Vehicle registration exemptions - Vermont

A person may not operate a motor vehicle nor draw a trailer or semi-trailer on any highway in Vermont unless such vehicle is registered.

Vehicle owners who have apportioned power units registered in Vermont under the International Registration Plan are exempt from the requirement to register their trailers in Utah.

A “motor vehicle” includes all vehicles propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power, except:

• Farm tractors,
• Vehicles running only upon stationary rails or tracks,
• Motorized highway building equipment,
• Road making appliances,
• Snowmobiles,
• Tracked vehicles,
• Motor-assisted bicycles,
• Electric bicycles, or
• Electric personal assistive mobility devices.

A “trailer” is a vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle, and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle except:

• Road making appliances, and
• Transportation dollies.

A “semi-trailer” is a vehicle without motive power, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle, and so constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by the towing vehicle, except:

• Pole dinkeys,
• Transportation dollies, and
• Road making appliances.

“Road making appliances” mean all bulldozers, rollers, scrapers, graders, spreaders, pavers, retreading machines, compressors, power shovels, excavators, rock crushers, concrete mixers, snow loaders, bucket loaders, rooters, portable electric generators, pavement heaters, sweepers, steam boilers, traffic control boards, screening plants, asphalt reclaimers, and scarifiers designed to be and while being drawn by a separate motorized power unit and while being used exclusively for building, repair, or maintenance of roads or highways or while being transported from job to job in connection with the building, repair, or maintenance of roads or highways, except contractor’s trailers.