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281.751 Registering trailers and semitrailers -- Exemptions.
Trailers or semitrailers which are operated by carriers or motor carriers under the
jurisdiction of this department shall be registered by the owner or operator thereof
applying to the county clerk of the county in which he resides or in which such
vehicle is principally operated, in accordance with KRS 186.655; provided, however,
that the provisions of this section do not apply to the following:
(1) Trailers or semitrailers operated in interstate commerce in this state by carriers
or motor carriers domiciled in a state other than this state when used in
combination with power units licensed in a state other than this state, said
power units being lawfully entitled to reciprocal privileges in this state under the
circumstances being operated; or
(2) Trailers or semitrailers operated in interstate commerce in this state by carriers
or motor carriers domiciled in a state other than this state when used in
combination with power units licensed in a state other than this state, said
power units not being lawfully entitled to reciprocal privileges in this state under
the circumstances being operated if said power units are at the time properly
licensed in this state or are operated under a lawful exemption from the
requirements of licensing in this state; or
(3) Trailers or semitrailers operated in interstate commerce in this state on a lawful
interchange basis by carriers or motor carriers domiciled in this state.
Effective:June 17, 1978
History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, sec. 464, effective June 17, 1978. -Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. IV, sec. 20(2). -- Amended 1962 Ky. Acts
ch. 63, sec. 7. -- Amended 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 70, sec. 30. -- Created 1956 (2nd
Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 7, sec. 15.
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