Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - MOTOR VEHICLES, DEPARTMENT OF › Title 251 - NEBRASKA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE › Chapter 4 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR PROCESSING APPORTIONED VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES WHICH HAVE CEASED TO BE ACTIVE PURSUANT TO NEB. REV. STAT. 60-305.16 › Section 251-4-001 - GENERAL

Current through June 17, 2024
001.01
Scope.
Rules and regulations for processing apportioned vehicle license plates
	 which have ceased to be active pursuant to
Neb. Rev.
	 Stat.
60-305.02 through 60-305.17.
001.02
Definitions.
The following definitions shall apply as used through these rules and
	 regulations. Terms and conditions found in the International Registration Plan
	 shall also be applicable under these rules and regulations pursuant to
Neb. Rev. Stat.
60-305.09.
001.02A
Active
  vehicle
means an apportionable vehicle or any apportioned
  vehicle unit for which a permanent plate has been issued by the Division which
  has not been deleted.
001.02B
Apportionable vehicle
means any vehicle
  used or intended for use in two (2) or more member jurisdictions that allocate
  or proportionally register vehicles and used for the transportation of persons
  for hire or designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of
  property. Apportionable vehicle does not include any recreational vehicle,
  vehicle displaying restricted plates, city pickup and delivery vehicle, bus
  used in the transportation of chartered parties, or government-owned vehicle.
  Such vehicle shall either (a) be a power unit having two (2) axles and a gross
  vehicle weight or registered gross vehicle weight in excess of twenty-six
  thousand (26,000) pounds; (b) be a power unit having three (3) or more axles,
  regardless of weight; or (c) be used in combination when the weight of such
  combination exceeds twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds gross vehicle weight.
  Vehicles or combinations of vehicles having a gross vehicle weight of
  twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds or less and two-axle (2-axle) vehicles and
  buses used in the transportation of chartered parties may be proportionally
  registered at the option of the registrant.
001.02C
Deletion
means the removal by a
  registrant or motor carrier of an active vehicle from a fleet of registered
  motor vehicles.
001.02D
Department
means the Nebraska Department
  of Motor Vehicles and the Division of Motor Carrier Services of the Nebraska
  Department of Motor Vehicles.
001.02E
Director
means the Director of the
  Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles or his or her designee and includes the
  Motor Carrier Services Division of the Nebraska Department of Motor
  Vehicles.
001.02F
Division
means the Division of Motor
  Carrier Services of the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles.
001.02G
IRP or
  International Registration Plan
means a reciprocal
  agreement between member jurisdictions authorized by
Neb. Rev.
  Stat.
60-305.03(2), the purpose of which is to promote and
  encourage the fullest possible use of the highway system by authorizing
  apportioned registration of fleets or vehicles, and the recognition of vehicles
  apportioned in other jurisdictions, thus contributing to the economic and
  social development and growth of jurisdictions.
001.02H
Loss of
  possession
means an apportioned vehicle unit is no longer
  an active vehicle due to fire or theft or because the vehicle was wrecked,
  junked, or dismantled.
001.02I
Motor carrier
means any individual, firm,
  partnership, limited liability company, agency, association, corporation, or
  organization which registers one (1) or more approtionable vehicles or active
  vehicles pursuant to IRP.
001.02J
Permanent plate
means a plate (or plates)
  issued to a motor carrier for a specific active vehicle registered pursuant to
  IRP which may be a truck, truck-tractor, trailer, semitrailer or other
  apportioned vehicle.
001.02K
Person
means bodies politic and
  corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals,
  partnerships, limited liability companies, joint stock companies, and
  associates as provided in
  49-802(16).
001.02L
Registrant
means any person, individual,
  firm, partnership, limited liability company, agency, association, corporation
  or organization registering one (1) or more apportionable vehicles or active
  vehicles pursuant to the IRP.
001.02M
Registered motor
  vehicle
means an apportionable vehicle or active vehicle
  registered pursuant to IRP.
001.02N
Transfer of ownership
means the sale of
  an apportionable vehicle or active vehicle, transfer by operation of law as
  provided in 60-111, or any time title to the apportionable vehicle or active
  vehicle has transferred, and includes cancellation or termination of a lease on
  an apportionable vehicle or an active vehicle by a registrant.