PURPOSE: This rule sets forth the manner of the use of local commercial motor vehicle license plates issued to motor vehicles used for farm or farming transportation operations.

1. (1) Any applicant who requests a farm license plate will be issued a local commercial license plate for the appropriate gross weight category and an “F” tab. The tab (which shall be a black letter F on a yellow background) referred to as a “farm” tab, should be affixed to the license plate in the lower left-hand corner. If the owner is issued Local 6,000 or Local 12,000 license plates, two (2) farm tabs must be issued. If the owner is issued a Local 18,000 through 80,000 license plate, one (1) farm tab will be issued. The farm tab(s) shall be issued at no fee.
2. (2) A farmer operating his/her truck on a local commercial motor vehicle license plate with a farm tab may travel beyond the fifty
3. (50) mile limit as defined in section 301.010(25), RSMo while empty or loaded. If the motor vehicle is loaded, the property being transported must be going to or from the farm for use in the operation of the farm.
4. (3) A farmer operating on a local commercial motor vehicle license plate with a farm tab may not make a for hire haul.

AUTHORITY: section 301.030, RSMo 2000.* Original rule filed June 9, 1986, effective Sept. 26, 1986. Amended: Filed June 24, 2003, effective Dec. 30, 2003.

*Original authority: 301.030, RSMo 1947, amended 1951, 1965, 1974, 1983, 1986, 1993, 1995, 1997.