Can I own one here
Owning one in Mohave 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
Open to road use. Arizona titles a foreign-made vehicle 25 years or more from its manufacture date without the federal safety and emissions conversion certificate it asks of newer imports. The truck passes an MVD inspection and an Arizona emissions inspection before title and then registers like any other vehicle.
A newer governed truck
Private land only. No Arizona off-highway class names a governed work truck. The decal reaches only vehicles the maker designed primarily for unimproved terrain. A foreign-made vehicle under 25 years old titles only with a registered importer's certification, A.A.C. R17-4-206(B).
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Mohave County.
Roads open. Mohave County passes no OHV route act, so state law decides its county roads, where a street legal OHV drives like any registered vehicle and a decal OHV may be on a road only incidentally, and Ordinance 87-2 asks for the owner's written permission to run a vehicle off road within a quarter mile of a home or business outside the towns. The streets of Lake Havasu City, Bullhead City, Kingman and Colorado City are still to confirm.
In town To confirm
- To confirm Bullhead City. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- To confirm Colorado City. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- To confirm Kingman. The town's code was not read in this pass.
- To confirm Lake Havasu City. The code has a chapter on off-road motorized vehicles. A search excerpt defines an off-road vehicle as a motorbike, moped, motorcycle, dune buggy or three or four wheel all-terrain vehicle, bars riding on another person's land without written permission and on city, county, state or federal property except on trails the owner designates, and bars unreasonable noise, reckless riding and night riding without a headlamp and tail lamp. Section 10.20.030, operation on streets, was not read, so the street rule is still open. Lake Havasu City Code Chapter 10.20, sections 10.20.010 and 10.20.020, from search excerpts of the American Legal copy, which answered a bot challenge, read 28 October 2026
County roads Open
No county act opens or closes a road to OHVs. The county clerk's searchable ordinance database was read in full, 134 ordinances, and the vehicle rules in it are a 1988 length limit on Route 66, a 1989 ban on spraying petroleum on unpaved roads, an engine braking ban and Ordinance 87-2, which is the only one that touches off road riding. The parks permits ordinance 2005-02 was seen as a title only. Ordinance 87-2 makes it a class 3 misdemeanor to run a motor vehicle on public or private property within a quarter mile of a permanent residence or business outside the incorporated towns without the owner's written permission, unless the property is held open to public vehicle use. State law decides the county roads. A street legal OHV drives them like any registered vehicle and a decal OHV may be on a road only incidentally, though it may use an unpaved dirt road in an unincorporated area that no state, city, town or county maintains, A.R.S. 28-2153(D)(9). Mohave County Ordinance 87-2 (1987-02), amended 18 January 1988, and A.R.S. 28-2153 and 28-3151, county ordinance database read 28 October 2026, read 28 October 2026
State highways Crossings only
- No ADOT resolution or page opening a stretch of state highway to decal or title only OHVs was found in this county. A.R.S. 28-2153(D)(11) and 28-627(A)(13), read 28 October 2026
Getting one here
From Japan to Mohave County.
The nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 350 road miles.
- The Port of Oakland, about 600 road miles.
- The Port of Tacoma, The Northwest Seaport Alliance South Harbor, about 1,100 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
Mohave County, counted.
17 active surface mines and quarries work Mohave County's ground. Mohave County grows 3,323 acres of orchards and vineyards. Mohave County is mostly urban, with 24 percent of its people outside urban areas.
Areas
The areas Mohave 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.
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