Can I own one here
Owning one in Miller 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 Missouri law writes a title class, the Non-USA-Std motor vehicle, for a vehicle not originally made to US safety or emissions standards.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 Miller County.
Some routes. Osage Beach opens streets posted 30 mph or less to utility vehicles under an ordinance of August 2020, Lake Ozark has loosened its own ban by reported action in 2025, and no act of Miller County for its county roads was found.
In town Some
- Some Lake Ozark. A 2024 ordinance kept UTVs and recreational off-highway vehicles off city streets with the state exceptions, and a 2025 amendment lets them use streets posted 45 mph or less with a city permit and a police inspection, between sunrise and sunset. Only news reports were read, and the city lies partly in Camden County. Lake Ozark 2024 ordinance and 2025 amendment, news reports only, read 28 October 2026
- Some Osage Beach. Utility vehicles of 50 to 67 inches wide and 2,000 pounds or less may use city streets posted 30 mph or less with a licence, insurance, lamps and a flag, never a federal, state or county highway except to cross, under Chapter 390. The city lies partly in Camden County, where the ordinance was read. Osage Beach Ordinance 20.42, passed 20 August 2020, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Eldon. The town's own code was not read.
County roads To confirm
No ordinance or commission order of Miller opening or closing its county roads to ATVs, utility vehicles or recreational off-highway vehicles was found, and the county's own code and its towns' codes were not read.
State highways Crossings only
- Osage Beach allows a utility vehicle to cross a federal, state or county highway only where the crossed road is posted 45 mph or less, and bars travel along it. Osage Beach Ordinance 20.42, sections 390.070(A)(4) and (5), 20 August 2020, read 28 October 2026
Getting one here
From Japan to Miller County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 900 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 1,000 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 1,800 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
Miller County, counted.
Miller County has 874 farms and 672 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Farms in Miller County hold 66,605 acres of woodland. 77 percent of Miller County's people live outside urban areas.
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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