Can I own one here
Owning one in Burnet County.
On your own land, yes
Owning a kei truck and working it on a ranch, a farm, a mine or private property does not depend on a road title. Some states still ask for a title or an off road registration.
A 25 year truck on the road
Open to road use. Texas titles and registers a kei vehicle that complies with federal law as a motor vehicle. Once titled and registered it may use any public highway where it can operate in compliance with the traffic laws.
A newer governed truck
Off highway vehicle. Texas title with the Off-Highway Use Only remark when the ownership papers show off highway use only.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Burnet County.
To confirm. Texas gives Burnet County no power to open its county roads to OHVs, and Granite Shoals is recorded as opening streets posted 35 mph or less to golf carts and UTVs, Marble Falls approved golf carts, UTVs and ROVs in March 2026 and Cottonwood Shores allows golf carts only.
In town Some
- Some Granite Shoals. Golf carts and UTVs, never on a street posted above 35 mph, with an off-highway vehicle plate on a UTV. Code of Ordinances Article III, Golf Carts and Utility-Terrain Vehicles. Read only in a search index summary of the code page, which sits behind a bot check; the act itself was not opened., read 28 October 2026
- Some Marble Falls. Reported as opening streets posted 35 mph or less to golf carts, UTVs and ROVs from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. with a city permit sticker, a driver licence, state minimum insurance and a TxDMV plate while keeping them off state highways and Farm to Market roads except to cross at signals. Ordinance No. 2026-O-03B, adding a Golf Carts article to Chapter 25, approved 17 March 2026 and listed by the code publisher as enacted but not yet codified. Its text was not read; the terms come from a news report., read 28 October 2026
- Closed Cottonwood Shores. Golf carts only, on roads posted 35 mph or less other than FM 2147, at no more than 25 mph. The article's golf cart excludes ATVs, off-road vehicles and altered carts. Code of Ordinances Article 11.05. Read only in a search index summary of the code page, which sits behind a bot check; the act itself was not opened., read 28 October 2026
County roads Closed
The commissioners court has no power to open county roads to OHVs. Transp. Code 551A.053(b) reaches only the counties named in 551A.053(c), on the Red River, Calhoun and its small coastal neighbours. On county roads an OHV runs only as state law allows everywhere: with an OHV plate on a road posted 35 mph or less by day within two miles of where it is kept on the way to or from a golf course, in a master planned community with restrictive covenants and an approved plat and in farm or utility work by day within 25 miles with an orange flag and lights on (551A.055, 551A.057). Tex. Transp. Code 551A.053(b) and (c), 551A.055 and 551A.057, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Burnet County.
The road hub, then the nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- Houston, the road hub for Texas and the central states, about 250 road miles. Port Houston lists no direct sailing from Japan.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 1,200 road miles.
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 1,200 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 1,400 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
Burnet County, counted.
12 active surface mines and quarries work Burnet County's ground. Burnet County has 1,428 farms and 871 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Burnet County grows 746 acres of orchards and vineyards.
Areas
The areas Burnet 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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