Can I own one here
Owning one in Davis 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
Road use with limits. Utah registers kei class trucks as novel vehicles and a novel vehicle equipped to the street-legal standard may run on Utah roads at up to 50 miles per hour, never on an interstate.
A newer governed truck
Off highway vehicle. Registered as a novel vehicle, which Utah governs under its off-highway vehicle chapter. The division may issue a title.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Davis County.
To confirm. Davis County's code opens no county road to OHVs and no town code read here opens a street to them, though six towns were not read.
In town To confirm
- To confirm Bountiful. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed Centerville. The town's code was searched for off-highway, off highway and all-terrain on Municipal Code Online and designates no street for OHVs, so Utah Code 41-22-10.5(5) keeps its streets closed to them. A street-legal ATV or street-legal novel vehicle may still use them under 41-6a-1509. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Clearfield. The town's code on American Legal was walked chapter by chapter through its traffic, public safety and public ways titles and no chapter or section heading concerns OHVs, so no street is designated and 41-22-10.5(5) keeps streets closed to them. A rule under a general heading could have been missed. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Clinton. The town's code was searched for off-highway, off highway and all-terrain on Municipal Code Online and designates no street for OHVs, so Utah Code 41-22-10.5(5) keeps its streets closed to them. A street-legal ATV or street-legal novel vehicle may still use them under 41-6a-1509. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Farmington. The town's code on American Legal was walked chapter by chapter through its traffic, public safety and public ways titles and no chapter or section heading concerns OHVs, so no street is designated and 41-22-10.5(5) keeps streets closed to them. A rule under a general heading could have been missed. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Fruit Heights. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed Kaysville. The town's code was searched for off-highway, off highway and all-terrain on Municode and designates no street for OHVs, so Utah Code 41-22-10.5(5) keeps its streets closed to them. A street-legal ATV or street-legal novel vehicle may still use them under 41-6a-1509. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Layton. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed North Salt Lake. The code bars motorized vehicles and ATVs from all property except public streets when permitted and a few private settings, and permits no street for OHVs. North Salt Lake City Code 6-1-5, Ordinance 03-11 of 21 October 2003, read 28 October 2026
- Closed South Weber. The town's code on American Legal was walked chapter by chapter through its traffic, public safety and public ways titles and no chapter or section heading concerns OHVs, so no street is designated and 41-22-10.5(5) keeps streets closed to them. A rule under a general heading could have been missed. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Sunset. The town's code on American Legal was walked chapter by chapter through its traffic, public safety and public ways titles and no chapter or section heading concerns OHVs, so no street is designated and 41-22-10.5(5) keeps streets closed to them. A rule under a general heading could have been missed. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Syracuse. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed West Bountiful. The town's code was searched for off-highway, off highway and all-terrain on Municipal Code Online and designates no street for OHVs, so Utah Code 41-22-10.5(5) keeps its streets closed to them. A street-legal ATV or street-legal novel vehicle may still use them under 41-6a-1509. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm West Point. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- To confirm Woods Cross. The town's code was not read in this pass.
County roads Closed
The Davis County code on Municipal Code Online was searched for off-highway, off highway and all-terrain and designates no county road, so under Utah Code 41-22-10.5(5) county roads are closed to OHVs. 41-22-10.1 also lets a county open roads by sign or map without an ordinance, and none was looked for. Its hits are definitions in the vehicle emissions and parking chapters. no OHV designation found in the county code, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Davis County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Oakland, about 700 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 700 road miles.
- The Port of Tacoma, The Northwest Seaport Alliance South Harbor, about 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
Davis County, counted.
3 active surface mines and quarries work Davis County's ground. Davis County grows 131 acres of orchards and vineyards. Davis County averages 61 inches of snow a year.
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.
News for Utah Utah adds gray market title brands on 1 January 2027
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