Can I own one here
Owning one in St. Lawrence County.
On your own land
On private land closed to public traffic a kei truck needs no registration, because VTL 401(1)(a) requires registration only on public highways and the rules of the road in Title VII reach only highways, private roads open to public motor vehicle traffic and parking lots, VTL 1100(a).
On the farm
New York gives farm vehicles three exits from the registration rules, and none names a kei truck. Whether a farm kei truck fits one is not settled and is a question for the DMV before anyone drives one on a road.
To confirm.
No DMV page applying VTL 125 or 401(13) to a kei truck by name was found. Federal import terms for a truck brought in as off road equipment still apply.
A 25 year truck on the road
Closed to road use. The New York DMV will not title or register a Kei-class vehicle for the road unless it has been brought into full compliance with federal safety and emissions standards.
A newer governed truck
Private land only. None. The DMV does not title Kei-class vehicles without federal compliance proof.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in St. Lawrence County.
Some routes. St. Lawrence County opens short named stretches of county road between trails and a dozen towns open their own connectors, all for registered ATVs only, while an unregistrable off highway vehicle up to 70 inches and 2,000 pounds may ride the county's off-road trails with a permit and insurance but never a road.
This rests on New York law. No St. Lawrence County ordinance or resolution was read.
In town Some
- Some Brasher. The town roads on Schedule A of the Brasher Community Connector of the county multi-use trail. The schedule itself did not come through in the filed copy, so the roads are not listed here. Local Law No. 2 of 2017, filed with the Department of State 22 May 2017, which supersedes Local Law No. 1 of 2017, read 28 October 2026
- Some Clare. Tooley Pond Road, 4.5 miles from the Allen Pond Connection Road trailhead on the Tooley Pond easement to the Clifton town line and 6.5 miles from the same trailhead to County Route 27. A court upheld this law in 2021. Local Law No. 1 of 2019, filed with the Department of State 21 October 2019 and Local Law No. 1 of 2020, filed 15 July 2020, read 28 October 2026
- Some Clifton. River Road and Tooley Pond Road from the Newton Falls limits to the Cranberry Lake limits, Newton Falls Hill from River Road to the bottom of Paper Mill Hill, Golf Course Road in Star Lake and Columbian Road in Cranberry Lake. Local Law No. 1 of 2010, filed with the Department of State 1 September 2010, read 28 October 2026
- Some Colton. Part of Windmill Road and about 1.65 miles of Morgan Road from Windmill Road to a trailhead on the town parcel at its end, by the Park Forestry easement. Earlier Colton laws of 1999 and 2004 that opened town roads were annulled in court in 2004. Local Law No. 2 of 2013, filed with the Department of State 20 September 2013, read 28 October 2026
- Some Edwards. Campbell Road, 2 miles from the Hermon line to County Route 24, Main Street 0.58 miles, New Street 0.71 miles and River Road 4.4 miles from New Street to County Route 23. Local Law No. 1 of 2025 amends this law and its change was not read. Local Law No. 1 of 2018, filed with the Department of State 30 April 2018 as amended by Local Law No. 1 of 2025, filed 19 September 2025, read 28 October 2026
- Open Gouverneur. Every town highway is designated uncongested so snowmobiles and ATVs may run on the shoulders. Courts have struck down blanket openings like this in other towns, and this one has not been tested. Local Law No. 1 of 1999, filed with the Department of State 12 February 1999, read 28 October 2026
- Some Hopkinton. The town roads on Schedule A of the Brasher Community Connector. A 1998 law also called every town highway except Church Street uncongested for ATVs on the shoulders, and whether the 2016 law replaced it was not settled. Local Law No. 1 of 2016, filed with the Department of State 24 February 2016, read 28 October 2026
- Some Lawrence. The town roads on Schedule A of the Brasher Community Connector. Local Law No. 2 of 2017, filed with the Department of State 20 April 2017, which supersedes Local Law No. 1 of 2016, read 28 October 2026
- Some Parishville. Rutman Road from the town land open to ATVs to County Route 47, Crawford Street about 100 feet and Catherine Street about 0.6 miles from the Sylvan Falls Road trailhead, the town roads on the Brasher Community Connector schedule and about 4 acres of the old town landfill parcel. Local Laws No. 1 and 2 of 2008, No. 2 of 2013 and No. 1 of 2016, filed with the Department of State 1 August 2008, 23 July 2013 and 25 January 2016, read 28 October 2026
- Some Pierrepont. Keener Road about 180 feet, Fifield Road about 0.2 miles and the abandoned Davis Road. Selleck, Wilson, Glenmeal, Orebed, Crary, Buck Pond, Howardville, Streeter and Church Roads and Butternut Ridge Road from Cloe Road to Church Road. Vebber, Green, Coldbrook, Morrill and Eel Is Roads. Local Laws No. 1 and 4 of 2012 and No. 1 of 2013, filed with the Department of State 11 April 2012, 3 July 2012 and 3 April 2013, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Pitcairn. The 2003 law opened 24 of 26 town roads to ATVs and snowmobiles. A court in August 2003 upheld only about half of the ATV designations, as the Tug Hill Commission's case review reports. Which roads survived was not read. Local Law No. 1 of 2003, filed with the Department of State 5 May 2003, read 28 October 2026
- Some Russell. Dutton Road 2.07 miles, West Road 3.33 miles, Russell-Pyrites Road 2 miles, Pestle Street Road 3.49 miles, Lazy River Road 2.56 miles, McCarthy Road 0.6 miles, Silver Hill Road 1.3 miles and Dana Hill Road 2.5 miles. Local Law No. 1 of 2025 amends this and its change was not read. Local Law No. 1 of 2024, filed with the Department of State 23 September 2024, which repealed Local Law No. 2 of 2018, read 28 October 2026
- Some Stockholm. The town roads on Schedule A of the Brasher Community Connector. The town had closed every road to ATVs in 2006 and reopened these in 2016 and 2017. Local Law No. 1 of 2017, filed with the Department of State 20 April 2017, read 28 October 2026
County roads Some
Short named stretches of county routes and county bridges that join one trail to another, listed as items a through jj of Section 4. Among them County Route 58 from Chappel Hill Road to Ashton Road and County Route 47 from Rutland Road to Barton Street in Parishville, County Route 49 in Stockholm, County Routes 38, 50, 52 and 55 in Brasher and Lawrence, County Route 54 from Desmond Road to Buckton Road, County Routes 21, 23, 24, 25 and 27 around Edwards and Russell, each from 0.1 to 2 miles. Since 2024 the list adds County Route 27 from Tooley Pond to County Route 17, County Route 17 on to Dana Hill Road and the County Route 24 trailhead and County Route 24 from Given Road to the Edwards line. Local Law No. 3 of 2006 and the county road law of 2015 as amended through Local Law No. 4 of 2024, filed with the Department of State 14 June 2024, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to St. Lawrence County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 1,100 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 1,300 road miles.
- The Port of Everett, about 2,700 road miles.
How to import a mini truck, step by step.
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
St. Lawrence County, counted.
St. Lawrence County averages 82 inches of snow a year. St. Lawrence County has 1,008 farms and 447 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Farms in St. Lawrence County hold 87,302 acres of woodland.
Areas
The areas St. Lawrence County is part of.
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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