PURPOSE: This rule sets forth the requirements for the registration and classification of commercial motor vehicles.

1. (1) The intended usage of a motor vehicle shall determine how a vehicle is to be registered unless the registration is otherwise defined by statute. An applicant shall designate at the time of registration the type of usage for which the vehicle shall be principally used.
2. (2) A commercial motor vehicle is a motor vehicle designed for or regularly used for carrying freight and merchandise or more than eight (8) persons, excepting vanpools or shuttle buses. Commercial use of the vehicle shall be presumed where the vehicle is regularly used for the carrying of freight or persons for more than fifty percent (50%) of the driving time or mileage of the vehicle.
3. (3) The registrant of a van, truck or station wagon who registers the vehicle as non-commercial shall provide the department with a notarized affidavit that the commercial use of the motor vehicle comprises less than fifty percent (50%) of the use of the vehicle.

AUTHORITY: sections 301.010, 301.020 and 301.030, RSMo 1986.* Original rule filed March 3, 1986, effective June 28, 1986. *Original authority: 301.010, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1949, 1951, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989; 301.020, RSMo 1939, amended 1943, 1945, 1949, 1957, 1969, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1988, 1989; and 301.030, RSMo 1947, amended 1951, 1965, 1974, 1983, 1986.