(1) Except as otherwise provided in the Motor Vehicle Registration Act:

Attorney's Note

The towing of historical vehicles is covered by several sections of this law added in 2019 by the Nebraska legislature. "Historical vehicles" are defined in § 60-333.

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 60-3,221

  • Apportionable vehicle: means any motor vehicle or trailer used or intended for use in two or more member jurisdictions that allocate or proportionally register motor vehicles or trailers and used for the transportation of persons for hire or designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. See Nebraska Statutes 60-308
  • Bus: means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten passengers and used for the transportation of persons and every motor vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation. See Nebraska Statutes 60-313
  • Cabin trailer: means any trailer designed for living quarters and for being towed by a motor vehicle and not exceeding one hundred two inches in width, forty feet in length, or thirteen and one-half feet in height, except as provided in subdivision (2)(k) of section 60-6,288. See Nebraska Statutes 60-314
  • Commercial trailer: means any trailer or semitrailer which has a gross weight, including load thereon, of more than nine thousand pounds and which is designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of persons or property for hire, compensation, or profit or designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. See Nebraska Statutes 60-317
  • Dealer: means any person engaged in the business of selling snowmobiles at wholesale or retail. See Nebraska Statutes 60-3,207
  • Farm trailer: means a trailer or semitrailer belonging to a farmer or rancher and used wholly and exclusively to carry supplies to or from the owner's farm or ranch, used by a farmer or rancher to carry his or her own agricultural products to or from storage or market, or used by a farmer or rancher for hauling of supplies or agricultural products in exchange of services. See Nebraska Statutes 60-324
  • Farm truck: means a truck or sport utility vehicle, including any combination of a truck, truck-tractor, or sport utility vehicle, and a trailer or semitrailer, of a farmer or rancher (1) used exclusively to carry a farmer's or rancher's own supplies, farm equipment, and household goods to or from the owner's farm or ranch, (2) used by the farmer or rancher to carry his or her own agricultural products to or from storage or market, (3) used by a farmer or rancher in exchange of services in such hauling of supplies or agricultural products, or (4) used occasionally to carry camper units, to tow boats or cabin trailers, or to carry or tow museum pieces or historical vehicles, without compensation, to events for public display or educational purposes. See Nebraska Statutes 60-325
  • Fertilizer trailer: means any trailer, including gooseneck applicators or trailers, designed and used exclusively to carry or apply agricultural fertilizer or agricultural chemicals and having a gross weight, including load thereon, of twenty thousand pounds or less. See Nebraska Statutes 60-326
  • Fleet: means one or more apportionable vehicles. See Nebraska Statutes 60-329
  • Former military vehicle: means a motor vehicle that was manufactured for use in any country's military forces and is maintained to accurately represent its military design and markings, regardless of the vehicle's size or weight, but is no longer used, or never was used, by a military force. See Nebraska Statutes 60-328.01
  • Historical vehicle: means a motor vehicle or trailer which is thirty or more years old, which is essentially unaltered from the original manufacturer's specifications, and which is, because of its significance, being collected, preserved, restored, or maintained by a collector as a leisure pursuit. See Nebraska Statutes 60-333
  • Local truck: means a truck and combinations of trucks, truck-tractors, or trailers operated solely within an incorporated city or village or within ten miles of the corporate limits of the city or village in which they are owned, operated, and registered. See Nebraska Statutes 60-336
  • Metropolitan utilities district: means a district created pursuant to section 14-2101. See Nebraska Statutes 60-336.02
  • Minitruck: means a foreign-manufactured import vehicle or domestic-manufactured vehicle which (1) is powered by an internal combustion engine with a piston or rotor displacement of one thousand five hundred cubic centimeters or less, (2) is sixty-seven inches or less in width, (3) has a dry weight of four thousand two hundred pounds or less, (4) travels on four or more tires, (5) has a top speed of approximately fifty-five miles per hour, (6) is equipped with a bed or compartment for hauling, (7) has an enclosed passenger cab, (8) is equipped with headlights, taillights, turnsignals, windshield wipers, a rearview mirror, and an occupant protection system, and (9) has a four-speed, five-speed, or automatic transmission. See Nebraska Statutes 60-337.01
  • Motor vehicle: means any vehicle propelled by any power other than muscular power. See Nebraska Statutes 60-339
  • Passenger car: means a motor vehicle designed and used to carry ten passengers or less and not used for hire. See Nebraska Statutes 60-345
  • Public power district: means a district as defined by section 70-601 receiving annual gross revenue of at least forty million dollars as determined by the Nebraska Power Review Board. See Nebraska Statutes 60-346.01
  • Recreational vehicle: means a motor vehicle designed for living quarters. See Nebraska Statutes 60-347
  • Trailer: means any device without motive power designed for carrying persons or property and being towed by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle. See Nebraska Statutes 60-354
  • Truck: means a motor vehicle that is designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property or designated as a truck by the manufacturer. See Nebraska Statutes 60-356
  • Well-boring apparatus: means trucks, truck-tractors, or combinations of trucks or truck-tractors and trailers which are not for hire and are used exclusively to travel to and from the well site including (1) the well rig truck, (2) the boom truck, (3) the water tank truck, and (4) such other devices as are used exclusively for transporting well-boring apparatus to and from the well site including the drill stem, casing, drilling mud, pumps and related equipment, and well-site excavating machinery or equipment. See Nebraska Statutes 60-359

(a) A cabin trailer shall only be towed by a properly registered:

(i) Passenger car;

(ii) Commercial motor vehicle or apportionable vehicle;

(iii) Farm truck;

(iv) Local truck;

(v) Minitruck;

(vi) Recreational vehicle;

(vii) Bus; or

(viii) Former military vehicle;

(b) A utility trailer shall only be towed by:

(i) A properly registered passenger car;

(ii) A properly registered commercial motor vehicle or apportionable vehicle;

(iii) A properly registered farm truck;

(iv) A properly registered local truck;

(v) A properly registered minitruck;

(vi) A properly registered recreational vehicle;

(vii) A properly registered motor vehicle which is engaged in soil and water conservation pursuant to section 60-3,149 ;

(viii) A properly registered well-boring apparatus;

(ix) A dealer-plated vehicle;

(x) A personal-use dealer-plated vehicle;

(xi) A properly registered bus;

(xii) A properly registered public power district motor vehicle or, beginning January 1, 2023, a properly registered metropolitan utilities district motor vehicle; or

(xiii) A properly registered former military vehicle;

(c) A farm trailer shall only be towed by a properly registered:

(i) Passenger car;

(ii) Commercial motor vehicle;

(iii) Farm truck;

(iv) Minitruck; or

(v) Former military vehicle;

(d) A commercial trailer shall only be towed by:

(i) A properly registered motor vehicle which is engaged in soil and water conservation pursuant to section 60-3,149 ;

(ii) A properly registered local truck;

(iii) A properly registered well-boring apparatus;

(iv) A properly registered commercial motor vehicle or apportionable vehicle;

(v) A dealer-plated vehicle;

(vi) A personal-use dealer-plated vehicle;

(vii) A properly registered bus;

(viii) A properly registered farm truck; or

(ix) A properly registered public power district motor vehicle or, beginning January 1, 2023, a properly registered metropolitan utilities district motor vehicle;

(e) A fertilizer trailer shall only be towed by a properly registered:

(i) Passenger car;

(ii) Commercial motor vehicle or apportionable vehicle;

(iii) Farm truck; or

(iv) Local truck;

(f) A pole and cable reel trailer shall only be towed by a properly registered:

(i) Commercial motor vehicle or apportionable vehicle;

(ii) Local truck; or

(iii) Public power district motor vehicle or, beginning January 1, 2023, metropolitan utilities district motor vehicle;

(g) A dealer-plated trailer shall only be towed by:

(i) A dealer-plated vehicle;

(ii) A properly registered passenger car;

(iii) A properly registered commercial motor vehicle or apportionable vehicle;

(iv) A properly registered farm truck;

(v) A properly registered minitruck;

(vi) A personal-use dealer-plated vehicle; or

(vii) A properly registered former military vehicle;

(h) Trailers registered pursuant to section 60-3,198 as part of an apportioned fleet shall only be towed by:

(i) A properly registered motor vehicle which is engaged in soil and water conservation pursuant to section 60-3,149 ;

(ii) A properly registered local truck;

(iii) A properly registered well-boring apparatus;

(iv) A properly registered commercial motor vehicle or apportionable vehicle;

(v) A dealer-plated vehicle;

(vi) A personal-use dealer-plated vehicle;

(vii) A properly registered bus; or

(viii) A properly registered farm truck; and

(i) A trailer registered as a historical vehicle pursuant to sections 60-3,130 to 60-3,134 shall only be towed by:

(i) A motor vehicle properly registered as a historical vehicle pursuant to sections 60-3,130 to 60-3,134 ;

(ii) A properly registered passenger car;

(iii) A properly registered commercial motor vehicle or apportionable vehicle; or

(iv) A properly registered local truck.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to waive compliance with the Nebraska Rules of the Road or Chapter 75.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any motor vehicle or trailer from displaying dealer license plates or In Transit stickers authorized by section 60-376.