How To Register A Utv In Tennessee

Making UTV's Street Legal in Tennessee

Dana & Kenny Koogler

April 19, 2017

Many times we ride in places where it is convenient to go from point A to betoken B by just

standing down a black top route on the RZR. We do it and we have seen lots of other riders do information technology. Some areas that take lots of 4 wheeling action yous tin can get away with it. Other areas yous would be hassled by local law enforcement, park service, or other legal government.

Recently it became possible to make UTVs road legal for depression and medium speed roads.

Rather than risk getting ticketed we went ahead and made the modifications needed to make our Polaris RZR legal. It was not super expensive or difficult. It is at present ok for u.s.a. to ride it on any road where the speed limit does not exceed 40 mph. Information technology is also ok for us to cross roads that accept college speed limits.

Laws vary from state to country so if you read this and are from another state you'd need

to check on your own expanse. You will need to detect out if you can make your UTV route legal?

You will need to find out the specific requirements for your area and the process.

Remember as well that many other states exercise not recognize the legality of it. We cannot accept our route legal RZR into Due north Carolina and get by with driving it on the hard top road for

example. Kentucky volition not allow you lot to register it as street legal, but they leave it to the discretion of their counties and towns to make up one's mind if that area volition allow it. I'd check on all the laws of the expanse I was planning to visit. More often than not speaking states that are UTV friendly and depend on four wheeling as role of their economy tend to allow it.

West Virginia , Ohio, Kentucky, Utah, and Arizona are examples of such places.

At the beginning of this web log mail I have given links to the needed laws and where to down load the forms and impress them. I have listed a link to a kit Kenny ordered on Amazon to catechumen our motorcar. You tin most probable notice what you need for your item machine on Amazon and have it sent correct to your house. It is usually cheaper and easier to society a kit rather than endeavour to piece together all you volition demand to get it done UNLESS your side by side came with some of those features already installed.

Updates to the use of UTV'southward and ATVs on Roads in Tennessee

Helmets are required at all times. Headlights must be visible for at to the lowest degree two hundred anxiety in front of the machine. They tin exist out on the roads from one-half hr after sunrise until half 60 minutes before sunset. Both these statutes accept to exercise with visibility to other vehicles.
May exist operated on 2 lane roads just and cross major thoroughfares. May not be on interstate highways at any time.

** Some areas of the land have city or county statutes that allow the machines on roads for agricultural employ any time and in areas where ATV riding is a tourism depict they have made it easier and less hassle. Examples are Petros in Morgan County on Hwy 116 and Huntsville, TN well-nigh Royal Blue.

List of Modifications Needed to Make a UTV Road Legal

Rear view mirrors

Horn

Signal lights
License plate

Register it equally medium speed vehicle

Affadavit for medium speed vehicle

Insurance

Our Polaris RZR on the trail.

Nosotros prefer the trail to the road, but it is a nice pick in E Tennessee to be able to utilise information technology on dorsum roads. It gets nifty gas mileage, is fun, and is designed specifically to handle these type rough roads. The suspension on information technology makes it far more than enjoyable than driving whatever other vehicle.

Friday July 31, 2020-- A reader.. 666MFR--was kind enough to warning me to the upcoming changes in Tennessee. In a nutshell.. they are fixing to make changes to the laws to make it easier to get 'registration plates" for off route vehicles that encounter certain requirements. I wrote to the land legislature months ago nearly the lost revenue from this topic, and so forgot virtually it. It is good to know someone is listening! Here is a link to a good folio on the topic. ( I had a link to the TN.gov folio here, but the site keeps going down so I replaced it)
Off Highway Vehicle Changes and Improvements

August 8, 2020-- I heard back from the Tennessee Dept. of Revenue.
They said that if you are a

non resident of Tennessee

.. but going to be visiting and want to make your machine legal for road utilize... you can get a Form i or 2 Temporary Performance Permit that will cover you while you lot are on your trip. You lot'd accept to contact Tenn.gov for additional details . There is a question submission form on the website. You can ask and will exist answered in a timely fashion.