Can I own one here
Owning one in Salt Lake 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 Salt Lake County.
To confirm. Salt Lake County's code opens no road to OHVs and none of the twenty town codes read here opens a street to them, while Salt Lake County, a county of the first class, also bars street-legal vehicles from highways near grade separations posted over 50 mph.
In town To confirm
- Closed Alta. 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 Bluffdale. 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 Brighton. The town code was searched for all-terrain and designates no street. Two of the three searches did not return, so this rests on one search. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Copperton. 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 Cottonwood Heights. 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 Draper. 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 Emigration Canyon. 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 Herriman. 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 Holladay. 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 Kearns. 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 Magna. 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 Midvale. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed Millcreek. 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 Murray. 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 Riverton. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed Salt Lake City. 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 Sandy. 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. Chapter 14-12 bars low profile vehicles from public property. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- Closed South Jordan. 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 South Salt Lake. 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. Its only hits are definitions. no OHV designation found in the code, read 28 October 2026
- Closed Taylorsville. 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 West Jordan. 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 West Valley City. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- Closed White City. 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
County roads Closed
The Salt Lake County code on Municode 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. no OHV designation found in the county code, read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Salt Lake 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
Salt Lake County, counted.
16 active surface mines and quarries work Salt Lake County's ground. Salt Lake County averages 119 inches of snow a year. Salt Lake County has 393 farms and 87 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture.
Areas
The areas Salt Lake 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.
News for Utah Utah adds gray market title brands on 1 January 2027
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