Administrative Rules of Montana › Department 23 - JUSTICE › Chapter 23.3 - MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION › Subchapter 23.3.7 - Vehicle Registration and License Plates › Rule 23.3.702 - MULTIPLE REGISTRATION

Current through Register Vol. 13, July 5, 2024
A person who is the owner, or one of the owners, of more than
				  one motor vehicle subject to anniversary date registration may register all
				  those vehicles at one time, regardless of the registration periods of the
				  individual vehicles. Multiple registration shall be implemented as
				  follows:
(1) During any anniversary
				registration period in which an owner registers any of his motor vehicles
				subject to anniversary date registration, the owner may register any, or all,
				of the other motor vehicles owned by him which are subject to anniversary date
				registration. A person may waive the opportunity for multiple registration in
				any anniversary registration period without waiving the right to accomplish it
				in a subsequent anniversary registration period. Any waiver of multiple
				registration in one year does not waive that right in subsequent
				years.
(2) A person may not
				accomplish multiple registration during an anniversary registration period in
				which one of his vehicles is not required to be registered.
(3) A person may not accomplish multiple
				registration for a motor vehicle whose anniversary registration period
				commences in the year following the year in which the multiple registration is
				sought to be accomplished.
(4) At
				the time of multiple registration, the person so registering the motor vehicles
				shall pay all fees and taxes due on all such motor vehicles offered for
				multiple registration. The fees and taxes due on such motor vehicles shall be
				computed for a full calendar year of 12 months. The effect of this requirement
				is that persons availing themselves of multiple registration shall prepay the
				fees and taxes applicable to each such vehicle prior to the actual due date of
				such fees and taxes. Thereafter, fees and taxes on these motor vehicles will
				not be due again until the expiration of the actual anniversary registration
				period assigned to the individual motor vehicle in the succeeding year. For
				example:
(a) Driver "A" owns three motor
				vehicles. The first vehicle is assigned to the 4th (April) registration period;
				the second vehicle is assigned to the 6th (June) registration period; the third
				vehicle is assigned to the 9th (September) registration period. Driver "A" may,
				between April 1 and April 25, register all such vehicles, or the first vehicle
				(April) and either the second or third vehicle. In so doing Driver "A" shall
				pay all of the fees and taxes due on all of the second or third vehicle for the
				current year. The fees and taxes paid on the first vehicle are good until April
				1 of the following year, while the fees and taxes paid on the second or third
				vehicle are good until June 1 or September 1 of the following year. Driver "All
				may elect to avail himself of multiple registration in the following year when
				the process will again be repeated.
(b) Driver "A" owns the same three vehicles
				as in (a). Driver "A" chose to register only his first (April) vehicle in the
				4th (April) registration period. He now feels that he would like to accomplish
				multiple registration for the remaining vehicles in May. Driver "A" cannot
				accomplish multiple registration in May but must wait until the anniversary
				period when his next motor vehicle is due for regis-tration, which is June. In
				June, Driver "A" is afforded the opportunity to accomplish registration for
				both the second (June) and third (September) vehicles in the same manners as
				shown in (a). Driver "A" may not accomplish multiple registration for the first
				(April) vehicle for the following year. The reason for not affording multiple
				registration into the following year is the inability to determine the
				appropriate value of the motor vehicle in the following year or the appropriate
				mill levy to be applied to such vehicle.
(c) Driver "A" owns the same three vehicles
				as in (a) and registers all of such vehicles in the 4th (April) period as shown
				in (a). However, in June, Driver "A" sells the third (September) vehicle. The
				purchaser of the third vehicle will have the benefit of purchasing a vehicle
				with taxes prepaid until September 1 of the following year. Driver "A" should
				take into account the prepayment of taxes in determining the price at which to
				sell the vehicle.