Licensing of Vehicles

PURPOSE: This proposed rule prescribes the requirements and procedures for the licensing of vehicles operated on public highways in interstate or intrastate commerce within the jurisdiction of the commission. (1) License Requirement. No motor carrier shall operate any motor vehicle on the public highways in Missouri in intrastate commerce unless information has been received as required on the license application forms as published by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, Motor Carrier Services Division; fees have been paid; and the annual license or seventy-two (72) hour license is carried in the vehicle. The mere presence of a regulatory license, issued by the commission or organization approved by the commission to sell its regulatory licenses on its behalf, on a vehicle does not authorize any person to operate as a motor carrier. Exceptions: Not-for-profit corporations transporting passengers other than charter service and every motor carrier required to comply with the regulatory requirements of the Unified Carrier Registration (UCR) Agreement promulgated by the Unified Registration Board of Directors are not required to comply with this rule. (2) Invalid License. Any license which has been altered or changed in any way shall not be valid. (3) Expiration of Regulatory Licenses. All annual regulatory licenses issued pursuant to this rule shall be effective from January 1 through December 31 of the year for which they are issued, and shall expire at 12:01 A.M. on the first day of January in the next year succeeding the year for which they were issued. Seventy-two (72) hour licenses expire seventy-two (72) hours from the issued time of the license. (4) Transfer of Regulatory Licenses. If the vehicle is sold during a license year, the commission may reissue without charge, upon request by the transferor, the annual license for any replacement vehicle purchased by the motor carrier. The regulatory license will not be valid for the transferee of the vehicle. (5) Failure to Purchase an Annual License—The commission may immediately suspend the intrastate authority of the motor carrier in accordance with the commission’s applicable procedures for suspension, for failure to purchase an annual license. Any further operation by the motor carrier of any motor vehicle upon the public highways in this state shall be unlawful until compliance with this rule and a reinstatement by the commission has been issued. AUTHORITY: sections 390.041(1), 390.138, and 622.027, RSMo 2000, and sections 226.008 and 390.136, RSMo Supp. 2013.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 265-10.020. Emergency rule filed June 14, 1985, effective July 1, 1985, expired Oct. 28, 1985. Original rule filed Aug. 1, 1985, effective Oct. 29, 1985. Emergency amendment filed Sept. 21, 1988, effective Oct. 1, 1988, expired Jan. 28, 1989. Amended: Filed Oct. 17, 1988, effective Dec. 29, 1988. Amended: Filed May 17, 1989, effective Sept. 11, 1989. Amended: Filed May 2, 1991, effective Dec. 9, 1991. Amended: Filed Nov. 4, 1992, effective July 8, 1993. Emergency amendment filed Dec. 1, 1994, terminated Dec. 19, 1994. Emergency amendment filed Dec. 20, 1994, effective Jan. 1, 1995, expired April 30, 1995. Emergency amendment filed April 20, 1995, effective May 1, 1995, expired Aug. 28, 1995. Emergency amendment filed Aug. 18, 1995, effective Aug. 29, 1995, expired Feb. 24, 1996. Amended: Filed Aug. 3, 1995, effective Feb. 25, 1996. Emergency amendment filed Aug. 19, 1996, effective Aug. 29, 1996, expired Feb. 24, 1997. Amended: Filed June 22, 1998, effective Feb. 28, 1999. Moved to 7 CSR 265-10.020, effective July 11, 2002. Emergency amendment filed Aug. 15, 2005, effective Aug. 26, 2005, expired Feb. 23, 2006. Amended: Filed Aug. 15, 2005, effective Feb. 28, 2006. Rescinded and readopted: Filed May 2, 2013, effective Dec. 30, 2013. *Original authority: 226.008, RSMo 2002; 390.041, RSMo 1939, amended 1951, 1984, 1986, 1988; 390.136, RSMo 1939, amended 1951, 1969, 1975, 1984, 1986, 1988, 2004; 390.138, RSMo 1955, amended 1986; and 622.027, RSMo 1985, amended 1993, 1995.