Application for
Farm Trailer/Semitrailer, Farm Truck, or Farm Truck Tractor License Plates
County Use Only
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INSTRUCTIONS
The completed application must be submitted to your local County Tax Assessor-Collector’s office with proof of eligibility, including proof of current liability insurance for a Farm Truck or Farm Truck Tractor.
Farm Plate Eligibility: Applicants must present a current permit card issued by the State Comptroller's office with a Texas Agricultural and Timber Exemption Registration Number.
WARNING: Farm Truck or Farm Truck Tractor License Plates may not be issued to:
farmer's cooperatives
passenger vehicles (unless reconstructed for delivery purposes and corrected title is applied for)
vehicles transporting livestock (unless for the purpose of sale), and
vehicles used for gainful employment or for hire, including transportation to and from a place of employment.
APPLICANT INFORMATION - Type or print only
Name of Farm/Ranch/Timber Operation
Gross Weight (34,000 lbs. or less)
Vehicle Identification Number
FARM TRUCK OR FARM TRUCK TRACTOR
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Manufacturer’s Rated Carrying Capacity (Tons)
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STATEMENT OF USE - State law makes falsifying information on this application a third-degree felony.
The Farm Trailer/Semitrailer will be used exclusively to transport seasonally harvested agricultural products or livestock from the place of production to the place of process, market, or storage; or farm supplies from the place of loading to the farm. The vehicle may be used to allow farmer/ranchers to participate in equine activities or attend livestock shows.
The Farm Trailer/Semitrailer is owned by a cotton gin and will be supplied, without charge, to farmers to haul agricultural products from the place of process, market, or storage of the agricultural products to the farm.
The Farm Trailer/Semitrailer will be used solely to transport fertilizer or to haul cotton seed, without charge, between a place of supply or storage to farms or place of process and return.
The Farm Truck/Farm Truck Tractor will be operated to transport my own poultry, dairy, livestock, livestock products, timber in its natural state, and farm products to market or to other points for sale or processing, or the transportation of laborers from their place of residence, and materials, tools, equipment and supplies, without charge, from the place of purchase or storage to my own farm or ranch, exclusively for my own use on such farm or ranch. The vehicle may be used to allow farmers/ranchers to participate in equine activities or attend livestock shows.
I also state that the vehicle will not be used for the current year with a gross weight in excess of 34,000 lbs. for a Farm Trailer/Semitrailer, or 46,000 lbs. for a Farm Truck/Truck Tractor, and that the vehicle will not be used for hire.
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Form VTR-52-A (Rev. 04/13) |
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Additional Information
The vehicle will not be used in connection with other gainful employment other than farming or ranching.
The vehicle may be used as the means of passenger transport, without charge, only by me or by members my family to attend church or school, to visit doctors for medical treatment or supplies, and for other necessities of the home and family.
The following definitions apply:
"Equine animal" means a horse, pony, mule, donkey, or hinny.
Participating in equine activities means riding, handling, training, driving, being a passenger on, or assisting a participant or sponsor with an equine animal, also to include assisting in the medical treatment of an equine animal and management of a show involving equine animals.
"Livestock show" means a nonprofit event at which more than two species or breeds of livestock animals are gathered for exhibition or competition.
OWNERSHIP EVIDENCE: Farm trailers are exempt from the Certificate of Title Act. Regardless of the evidence of ownership presented, you should retain such evidence and it should not be surrendered to the office.
Farm semitrailers, with a gross weight of more than 4,000 pounds, may be issued a certificate of title. If an owner of a farm semitrailer with a gross weight of more than 4,000 pounds chooses not to apply for title, the evidence of ownership should be retained by the owner.
WARNING: Any trailer/semitrailer displaying a Farm Trailer/Semitrailer license plate that is operated and moved upon the public highways of this state in violation of Transportation Code, Chapter 502, will be deemed to be operated or moved unregistered and will immediately be subject to the annual registration fees and penalties as prescribed by law.
Transportation Code, Chapter 502, also provides that the owner of any commercial motor vehicle displaying Farm Truck or Farm Truck Tractor license plates used or permitted to be used for any purpose other than those listed in the last statement of use on page 1 of this application is guilty of a misdemeanor upon conviction, and the owner will be fined not less than $25 or more than $200, and each use or permission for use of such vehicle constitutes a separate offense.
Applicants for Farm Truck and Farm Truck Tractor license plates are required to pay an additional $5 assessment for the Young Farmer Loan Guarantee Program.
Instructions for County Tax Assessor-Collector
If the applicant is applying for registration and title, this application must be completed in duplicate. One original copy must be retained by your office and the duplicate copy must be attached to the title transaction.
This form must be submitted to your office before license plates may be initially issued or transferred to the applicant for the vehicle described on page 1 of this application.
Form VTR-52-A (Rev. 04/13) |
Online Form at www.TxDMV.gov |
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