Section 32-8-31

Exemptions.

No certificate of title shall be issued for any of the following:

(1) A vehicle owned by the United States or any agency thereof.

(2) A vehicle owned by a manufacturer or dealer and held for sale, even though incidentally moved on the highway or used for purposes of testing or demonstration, or a vehicle used by a manufacturer solely for testing.

(3) A vehicle owned by a nonresident of this state and not required by law to be registered in this state.

(4) A vehicle regularly engaged in the interstate transportation of persons or property for which a currently effective certificate of title has been issued in another state.

(5) A vehicle moved solely by animal power.

(6) An implement of husbandry.

(7) Special mobile equipment.

(8) A pole trailer.

(9) Manufactured homes, travel trailers, and mobile trailers designated 1989 year models and prior year models.

(10) A new manufactured home placed on the owner's land when classified real property through the surrender of the manufacturer's certificate of origin and a real property deed is issued.

(11) Utility trailers not exceeding 16 feet in length, excluding the tongue and hitch, and with not more than one axle.

(12) A vehicle designated a 1974 year model or prior year model.

(Acts 1973, No. 765, p. 1147, §3; Acts 1989, No. 89-918, p. 1817, §3; Act 2003-345, §1.)