Can I own one here
Owning one in Cass County.
On your own land
The three statutes govern highways and streams. They do not reach private land, where Missouri sets no registration for a utility vehicle or a recreational off-highway vehicle, and the Department of Revenue titles and registers only ATVs.
On the farm
RSMo 304.013(1)(2), 304.032(1)(2) and 304.033(1)(2) let an ATV, a utility vehicle and a recreational off-highway vehicle use a highway for agricultural purposes or industrial on-premises purposes. An ATV and a utility vehicle do so between sunrise and sunset, and a utility vehicle may also run at night with proper lighting. The driver needs a valid licence and a utility vehicle stays under 45 mph, 304.032(3). Whether a kei truck counts as one of those vehicles is the open question.
A 25 year truck on the road
Open to road use. Missouri law writes a title class, the Non-USA-Std motor vehicle, for a vehicle not originally made to US safety or emissions standards. The Department of Revenue titles and registers an import declared under Box 1 of Form HS-7, the federal 25 year lane, after a Highway Patrol examination.
A newer governed truck
Unclear. Turns on the HS-7 box the importer declares. Missouri refuses Boxes 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 13. NHTSA has called Box 8 the declaration for a vehicle not manufactured primarily for use on the public roads, and Missouri's page neither refuses Box 8 nor lists papers for it.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Cass County.
Roads open. Cass County requires a one year sheriff's permit for an ATV or UTV on its county roads, with a licence, insurance, a flag and a speed under 30 mph, under a county ordinance of 2002 amended in 2005, and any city inside it may set its own rules.
In town To confirm
- Some Peculiar. A newspaper summary says the board took up Bill 2025-17 on first reading in September 2025 to permit certain UTVs and golf carts on city streets under conditions. Whether it passed was not found and no text was read. Peculiar Bill 2025-17, news report only, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Harrisonville. The city's own code was not read.
- To confirm Belton. The city's own code was not read.
- To confirm Raymore. The city's own code was not read.
- To confirm Pleasant Hill. The city's own code was not read.
County roads Open
The streets and highways of Cass County, in the ordinance's own words, for an ATV or UTV carrying a county permit that the sheriff issues to a licensed driver for one year. The ordinance lists no roads. It exempts county vehicles, farm and on-premises industrial use between sunrise and sunset and permit holders. The sheriff's pamphlet warns that any city inside the county may restrict ATVs and UTVs within its limits. The county's own definitions reach machines manufactured and used exclusively for off-highway use, a utility vehicle of 50 to 67 inches and 2,000 pounds or less and a recreational off-highway vehicle of the same size. Cass County Code section 340.090, All-Terrain Vehicle Permits, Ord. No. 02-02 of 22 April 2002 as amended by Ord. No. 05-20 of 22 December 2005, read in the sheriff's pamphlet and permit page that quote it. The code host refused the code text itself., read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Cass County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 1,000 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 1,100 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 1,600 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
Cass County, counted.
Cass County has 1,314 farms and 557 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. 3 active surface mines and quarries work Cass County's ground. Cass County grows 124 acres of orchards and vineyards.
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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