Missouri Laws 301.067 – Trailer or semitrailer registration required, fee — optional period fee for ..
1. For each trailer or semitrailer there shall be paid an annual fee of seven dollars and* fifty cents, and in addition thereto such permit fee authorized by law against trailers used in combination with tractors operated under the supervision of the highways and transportation commission of the department of transportation. The fees for tractors used in any combination with trailers or semitrailers or both trailers and semitrailers (other than on passenger-carrying trailers or semitrailers) shall be computed on the total gross weight of the vehicles in the combination with load.
2. Any trailer or semitrailer may at the option of the registrant be registered for a period of three years upon payment of a registration fee of twenty-two dollars and fifty cents.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 301.067
- Gross weight: the weight of vehicle and/or vehicle combination without load, plus the weight of any load thereon. See Missouri Laws 301.010
- Month: means a calendar month, and "year" means a calendar year unless otherwise expressed, and is equivalent to the words year of our Lord. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Trailer: any vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers on its own structure and for being drawn by a self-propelled vehicle, except those running exclusively on tracks, including a semitrailer or vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a self-propelled vehicle that a considerable part of its own weight rests upon and is carried by the towing vehicle. See Missouri Laws 301.010
- Vehicle: any mechanical device on wheels, designed primarily for use, or used, on highways, except motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, vehicles propelled or drawn by horses or human power, or vehicles used exclusively on fixed rails or tracks, or cotton trailers or motorized wheelchairs operated by handicapped persons. See Missouri Laws 301.010
3. Any trailer as defined in section 301.010 or semitrailer may, at the option of the registrant, be registered permanently upon the payment of a registration fee of fifty-two dollars and fifty cents. The permanent plate and registration fee is vehicle specific. The plate and the registration fee paid is nontransferable and nonrefundable, except those covered under the provisions of section 301.442.
4. Beginning August 28, 2019, the annual registration fees imposed under this section or section 301.030 for recreational trailers, as defined under section 301.010, shall be payable in the month of May each year. Any fee that would have been due in December 2019, shall be deferred until May 2020.