Can I own one here
Owning one in Boone County.
On your own land
On private land with the owner's consent an off-road vehicle needs no local act. Indiana asks for BMV registration and decals on an off-road vehicle and DNR rules govern public land.
To confirm.
On the farm
IC 14-16-1-20 does not apply to a farm vehicle being used for farming, which is outside the off-road vehicle class by the BMV's own page. No Indiana source read puts a kei truck on a county road for farm work outside the local acts.
To confirm.
A 25 year truck on the road
Road use with limits. Indiana titles and plates a mini truck for the road, and it may go anywhere except an interstate highway.
A newer governed truck
Off highway vehicle. ORV title, required for an ORV bought after 31 December 2009, applied for within 45 days.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Boone County.
Roads open. Boone County lets a county registered side by side utility vehicle use its county roads, with a Bureau of Motor Vehicles registration, liability insurance that names the vehicle and a licensed driver.
In town To confirm
No town street opening was found in the codes read.
County roads Open
Streets within the county's jurisdiction, for a UTV side by side registered with the county highway department. The ordinance names no list of roads. It leaves out golf carts, all terrain vehicles, registered aircraft and watercraft and vehicles properly registered by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and it repeals the older section that covered off-road vehicles in general. Boone County Ordinance No. 2025-07, amending Chapter 70 of the county code on the use of UTVs, recorded 8 September 2025, repealing section 70.05, which had regulated off-road vehicles in general, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Boone County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 800 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 900 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 2,100 road miles.
How to import a mini truck, step by step.
A newer off road truck never lands in California. It comes in through Tacoma or by way of Houston.
Trucks travel in containers, one to a 20 foot box with room for parts or three to a 40 foot box.
Road miles are an estimate, the straight line times 1.2.
The ground
Boone County, counted.
Boone County is mostly urban, with 27 percent of its people outside urban areas. 1 active surface mine or quarry works Boone County's ground. Farms in Boone County hold 3,210 acres of woodland.
Importing a kei truck
The essentials, in short.
A truck under 25 can come in only as governed off road equipment, and only if its engine family held an EPA nonroad certificate for that model year. No kei engine family was certified for mini trucks before model year 2010, so a truck built after 31 October 2001 and before model year 2010 has no federal door until its 25th birthday.
Two lanes
A road truck must be 25 years old by its own build date. A newer truck comes in only as governed off road equipment with a certified engine.
The 25 percent duty
Every kei truck pays the 25 percent truck duty at the port, whatever its age.
The paperwork
The customs entry and the two federal declarations, DOT Form HS-7 and EPA Form 3520-1, travel with the truck to your title office.
The title
Keep every stamped paper with the truck. Your state title office asks to see them.
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