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Revenue Object 3014 – Motor Vehicle Registration Fees – Specialty License Plates -- Certain Farm Vehicles and Drilling and Construction Equipment
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Revenue Type: Cash — Transportation
Origin Date: 1929 by the 41st Leg.
Issue Date:
Revised Date: 2025-09-01

Description

Specialty plates for:

  • machinery used solely for drilling water wells;
  • construction machinery not designed to transport persons or property on a public highway;
  • farm trailers and semi-trailers with gross weight between 4,000 and 34,000 pounds, used solely to transport seasonally harvested agricultural products or livestock from place of production to place of process, market or storage, or farm supplies from loading site to farm;
  • trailers and semi-trailers owned by cotton gins used solely to transport agricultural products without charge from place of production to place of processing, market or storage;
  • trailers used solely to transport fertilizer or cotton seed without charge from supply or storage site to farm or processing site.
  • frac tanks.

Additional fee of $5 per year for distinguishing plate.

Due Date

At time of issuance

Collecting Agencies

  • County Tax Assessor-Collector

Notes

Formerly § 502.275.

Amended by H.B. 122, 68th Leg. 2nd C.S.

Amended by H.B. 1050, 71st Leg., R.S.

Amended by H.B. 1225, 74th Leg., R.S.

Collecting agency changed from Texas Department of Transportation (601) by H.B. 3097, 81st Leg., R.S.

Formerly § 504.504 changed by H.B. 2357, 82nd Leg., R.S. effective 1-1-2012.

H.B. 2202, 83rd Leg., R.S. changed deposit from State Highway Fund (0006) to new Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Fund. New fund was not exempted in funds consolidation bill (H.B. 6) and not created. Therefore, revenue amounts were deposited to General Revenue (0001).

S.B. 1512, 84th Leg., R.S. recreated the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Fund and it was exempted by H.B. 6, 84th Leg., R.S. Deposit changed from General Revenue to Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Fund (0010). Effective 9/1/16.

Frac tanks added by H.B. 2686, 89th Leg., R.S.

USAS Values

Appropriation Year 26
USAS Title MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEES
Receipt Category 01 – Transportation
Receipt Type 20 – Non-Commercial Licenses and Permits
Object Group 30 – Revenues
USAS Status A
Rev/Exp Category 01 – LICENSES, FEES, FINES, AND PENALTIES



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