No person shall operate or park any motor vehicle or trailer
upon any street or highway of this City unless such motor vehicle
or trailer has properly displayed a valid license plate or plates
or temporary permit issued to the lawful owner of the vehicle by the
Department of Revenue of the State of Missouri, except that any person
who is a non-resident of the State of Missouri may operate or park
any motor vehicle or trailer upon any street or highway of this City,
provided the motor vehicle or trailer has been duly registered for
the current year in the State, country or other place of which the
owner is a resident, provided that at all times such motor vehicle
or trailer is being operated or parked upon the streets or highways
of this City, the valid license plate or plates or temporary permit
is properly displayed on such vehicle or trailer.
Application for registration of a motor vehicle not previously
registered in Missouri, operated for the first time on the public
highways of this State, and previously registered in another State
shall be made within thirty (30) days after the owner of such motor
vehicle has become a resident of this City.
No motor vehicle or trailer shall be operated on any highway
of this City unless it shall have displayed thereon the license plate
or set of license plates issued by the Director of Revenue or the
State Highways and Transportation Commission and authorized by Section
301.140, RSMo. Each such plate shall be securely fastened to the motor
vehicle in a manner so that all parts thereof shall be plainly visible
and reasonably clean so that the reflective qualities thereof are
not impaired. License plates shall be fastened to all motor vehicles
except trucks, tractors, truck tractors or truck-tractors licensed
in excess of twelve thousand (12,000) pounds on the front and rear
of such vehicles not less than eight (8) nor more than forty-eight
(48) inches above the ground, with the letters and numbers thereon
right side up. The license plates on trailers, motorcycles, motortricycles
and motor scooters shall be displayed on the rear of such vehicles,
with the letters and numbers thereon right side up. The license plate
on buses, other than school buses, and on trucks, tractors, truck
tractors or truck-tractors licensed in excess of twelve thousand (12,000)
pounds shall be displayed on the front of such vehicles not less than
eight (8) nor more than forty-eight (48) inches above the ground,
with the letters and numbers thereon right side up, or if two (2)
plates are issued for the vehicle pursuant to Subsection (3) of Section
301.130, RSMo., displayed in the same manner on the front and rear
of such vehicles. The license plate or plates authorized by Section
301.140, RSMo., when properly attached, shall be prima facie evidence
that the required fees have been paid.
No person shall operate a motor vehicle or trailer on which
there is displayed on the front or rear thereof any other plate, tag
or placard bearing any number except the plate furnished by the Director
of Revenue or the placard herein authorized and the official license
tag of any municipality of this State, nor shall there be displayed
on any motor vehicle or trailer a placard, sign or tag bearing the
words "license lost", "license applied for" or words of similar import
as a substitute for such number plates or such placard.
No person shall show, exhibit, display or have in possession
for the purpose of sale any motor vehicle bearing or displaying thereon
any number or license plates except those of the dealer or owner so
displaying said motor vehicle; provided however, that where the motor
vehicle is placed on consignment with a dealer by the owner thereof,
there may be displayed a number or license plate issued to the owner
thereof.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate in this City
a motor vehicle or trailer required to be registered as provided by
law unless a certificate of ownership has been issued.
It shall be unlawful for any person to buy or sell in this City
any motor vehicle or trailer registered under the laws of this State
unless at the time of delivery thereof there shall pass between the
parties a certificate of ownership with an assignment thereof as provided
in Section 301.210, RSMo., as amended, and the sale of any motor vehicle
or trailer registered under the laws of this State without the assignment
of such certificate of ownership shall be fraudulent and void.
Upon the transfer of ownership of any motor vehicle or trailer,
the certificate of registration and the right to use the number plates
shall expire and the number plates shall be removed by the owner at
the time of the transfer of possession, and it shall be unlawful for
any person other than the person to whom such number plates were originally
issued to have the same in his/her possession whether in use or not;
except that the buyer of a motor vehicle or trailer who trades in
a motor vehicle or trailer may attach the license plates from the
trade-in motor vehicle or trailer to the newly purchased motor vehicle
or trailer. The operation of a motor vehicle with such transferred
plates shall be lawful for no more than thirty (30) days. As used
in this Section, the term "trade-in motor vehicle or trailer" shall include any single motor vehicle or trailer sold by the buyer
of the newly purchased vehicle or trailer, as long as the license
plates for the trade-in motor vehicle or trailer are still valid.
Upon the sale of a motor vehicle or trailer by a dealer, a buyer
who has made application for registration, by mail or otherwise, may
operate the same for a period of thirty (30) days after taking possession
thereof if during such period the motor vehicle or trailer shall have
attached thereto, in the manner required by Section 301.130, RSMo.,
number plates issued to the dealer. Upon application and presentation
of satisfactory evidence that the buyer has applied for registration,
a dealer may furnish such number plates to the buyer for such temporary
use. In such event, the dealer shall require the buyer to deposit
the sum of ten dollars fifty cents ($10.50), to be returned to the
buyer upon return of the number plates, as a guarantee that said buyer
will return to the dealer such number plates within thirty (30) days.
[CC 1988 §30.902]
Self-propelled construction equipment which is equipped with
pneumatic tires and which is not designed for the transportation of
persons or property may be moved on the highways of this City from
one job location to another or to or from places of storage, delivery
or repair without complying with the provisions of the law relating
to registration and display of license plates but shall comply with
all the other requirements of the law relating to motor vehicles;
provided however, that said equipment shall not be operated on City
maintained roads or highways on Saturdays, Sundays or legal holidays.
[CC 1988 §30.904]
A.
License
plates issued to owners of motor vehicles registered under the monthly
series system of registration as provided in Section 301.030, RSMo.,
shall be removed on the sale or transfer of ownership of such vehicles.
The plates, if still current, may thereafter be retained and preserved
by the person to whom issued, to be fastened to such other motor vehicles
as he/she shall thereafter register in his/her name.
B.
If application
for registration of another motor vehicle is not made to the State
Director of Revenue within one (1) year following the sale or transfer
of ownership of a motor vehicle, the license plates held by the person
who sold or transferred ownership of such motor vehicle shall be declared
void, and new license plates bearing the same numbers may be issued
to another registrant.
C.
It shall
be unlawful to fasten voided plates to any motor vehicle.
[CC 1988 §30.905]
A.
Motor
vehicles and trailers in the course of delivery from a manufacturer
to a dealer or from one dealer to another may be operated on the highways
without number plates being attached thereto, provided they bear on
the front and on the rear, substantially as provided for number plates,
a placard displaying the words "In Transit" and the number of the
certificate issued as herein provided in letters and figures not less
than three-eights (€) of an inch wide; and provided further,
that the operator of each motor vehicle shall carry and exhibit on
request a certificate bearing the seal of the State Director of Revenue
and his/her facsimile signature, countersigned with the genuine signature
of the manufacturer or dealer selling such motor vehicle, and shall
be of such form as the State Director of Revenue shall determine.
B.
The manufacturer,
dealer or authorized agent shall insert the correct date, place of
issue and destination and mail a duplicate copy of such certificate
to the State Director of Revenue at the time the original is issued;
original and duplicate forms of certificates shall be furnished to
manufacturers and dealers, and to no others, in books of ten (10)
sets of certificates each for a fee of five dollars ($5.00) and in
books of fifty (50) sets of certificates each for a fee of twenty-five
dollars ($25.00). It shall be unlawful for any person to display such
placard or to use such certificate except as herein provided.
[CC 1988 §30.906]
Dealer plates may be displayed on any motor vehicle used by
an employee or officer and owned by the manufacturer, distributor
or dealer but shall not be displayed on any motor vehicle or trailer
hired or loaned to others or upon any regularly used service or wrecker
vehicle.
[CC 1988 §30.907]
No person shall operate a motor vehicle or trailer on which
there is displayed on the front or rear thereof any other plate, tag
or placard bearing any number except the plate furnished by the State
Director of Revenue or the placard herein authorized, and the official
license tag of any municipality of this City, nor shall there be displayed
on any motor vehicle or trailer a placard, sign or tag bearing the
words "license lost", "license applied for" or words of similar import
as a substitute for such number plates or such placard.
[CC 1988 §30.908]
Any person giving a false address to the State Director of Revenue
when making an application for registration of a motor vehicle is
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as provided
by law.
[CC 1988 §30.909]
No person shall sell or offer for sale or shall knowingly have
the custody or possession of a motor vehicle, trailer, motor vehicle
tire, piece of farm machinery, farm implement or piece of construction
equipment on which the original manufacturer's number or other distinguishing
number has been destroyed, removed, covered, altered or defaced, and
no place shall sell, offer for sale or knowingly have the custody
or possession of a motor vehicle or trailer having no manufacturer's
number or other original number or distinguishing number.
[CC 1988 §30.910]
No person shall willfully or knowingly make a false statement
in any application for the registration of a motor vehicle or trailer,
or as a dealer, chauffeur or registered operator, or in an application
for or assignment of a certificate of ownership. All blanks or forms
issued by the Director of Revenue for the purpose of making application
for registration of certificate of ownership shall conspicuously bear
on the face thereof the following words: "Any false statement in this
application is a violation of the law and may be punished by fine
or imprisonment or both."
[CC 1988 §30.912]
A.
Every
owner of a motor vehicle or trailer which shall be operated or driven
upon the highways of this City, except as herein otherwise expressly
provided, shall annually file, by mail or otherwise, in the office
of the State Director of Revenue an application for registration on
a blank to be furnished by the State Director of Revenue for that
purpose containing:
1.
A brief
description of the motor vehicle or trailer to be registered, including
the name of the manufacturer, the vehicle identification number, the
amount of motive power of the motor vehicle, stated in figures of
horsepower and whether the motor vehicle is to be registered as a
motor vehicle primarily for business use as defined in Section 301.010,
RSMo.
2.
The
name, the applicant's identification number and address of the owner
of such motor vehicle or trailer;
3.
The
gross weight of the vehicle and the desired load in pounds if the
vehicle is a commercial motor vehicle or trailer;
4.
If such
motor vehicle be a specially constructed or reconstructed motor vehicle,
the application shall so state and the owner shall furnish the State
Director of Revenue such additional information as he/she shall require.
[CC 1988 §30.913]
Any resident or non-resident whose operator's or chauffeur's
license or right or privilege to operate a motor vehicle in this City
has been suspended or revoked as provided in Sections 302.010 to 302.260,
RSMo., shall not operate a motor vehicle in this City under a license,
permit or registration certificate issued by any other jurisdiction
or otherwise during such suspension or after such revocation until
a new license is obtained when and as permitted under Sections 302.010
to 302.260, RSMo.
