Can I own one here
Owning one in Ellsworth 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. A micro utility truck may drive Kansas public roads that are not interstate, federal or state highways. City streets open only where the city allows it.
A newer governed truck
Off highway vehicle. Nonhighway certificate of title. The micro utility truck definition asks whether the truck could exceed 40 mph as originally manufactured, so on its face it reaches a governed truck as well as an old one.
Roads and towns
Roads and towns in Ellsworth County.
Roads open. State law opens the county and township roads of Ellsworth County outside its cities to a UTV of the work-site class and to a micro utility truck, which is the class a kei truck falls in, and keeps them off every interstate, federal and state highway. Ellsworth opens its streets to registered micro utility trucks and work-site utility vehicles under Ordinance 3111 of 22 March 2021, never K-156, K-14, Douglas Avenue or 15th Street, and the other cities were not read.
In town Some
- Some Ellsworth. Work-site utility vehicles, micro utility trucks and golf carts may use the public streets, roads and alleys inside the city once registered and insured, never K-156, K-14, Douglas Avenue or 15th Street, though they may cross a highway posted 35 mph or less. Each needs a slow moving vehicle emblem and a red flag. All-terrain vehicles are barred. Ordinance 3111, passed and approved 22 March 2021, City Code 10.26.020, as printed in the Ellsworth County Independent Reporter, read 28 October 2026
- To confirm Wilson. The city's own code was not read. Kansas keeps its streets closed to all-terrain vehicles, work-site utility vehicles and micro utility trucks unless the city authorizes them, K.S.A. 8-15,100(a)(2), 8-15,106(a)(2) and 8-15,109(a)(2).
- To confirm Kanopolis. The city's own code was not read. Kansas keeps its streets closed to all-terrain vehicles, work-site utility vehicles and micro utility trucks unless the city authorizes them, K.S.A. 8-15,100(a)(2), 8-15,106(a)(2) and 8-15,109(a)(2).
- To confirm Holyrood. The city's own code was not read. Kansas keeps its streets closed to all-terrain vehicles, work-site utility vehicles and micro utility trucks unless the city authorizes them, K.S.A. 8-15,100(a)(2), 8-15,106(a)(2) and 8-15,109(a)(2).
- To confirm Lorraine. The city's own code was not read. Kansas keeps its streets closed to all-terrain vehicles, work-site utility vehicles and micro utility trucks unless the city authorizes them, K.S.A. 8-15,100(a)(2), 8-15,106(a)(2) and 8-15,109(a)(2).
County roads Open
County and township roads outside the corporate limits of every city are open by state law to all-terrain vehicles, work-site utility vehicles and micro utility trucks. K.S.A. 8-15,100(a), 8-15,106(a) and 8-15,109(a) bar them only from interstate, federal and state highways and from city streets the city has not authorized, and the sections name no county power over them. No resolution of Ellsworth County changing that was read. K.S.A. 8-15,100(a), 8-15,106(a) and 8-15,109(a). No county act read., read 28 October 2026
State highways Closed
Closed to OHVs.
Getting one here
From Japan to Ellsworth County.
The road hub, then the nearest ports with a sailing from Japan on record
- Houston, the road hub for Texas and the central states, about 800 road miles. Port Houston lists no direct sailing from Japan.
- The Port of Savannah, Georgia Ports Authority, about 1,300 road miles.
- The JAXPORT, Jacksonville Port Authority, about 1,300 road miles.
- The Port of Los Angeles, about 1,400 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
Ellsworth County, counted.
Ellsworth County has 327 farms and 157 cattle operations, by the 2022 Census of Agriculture. 100 percent of Ellsworth County's people live outside urban areas.
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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