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joe0508
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Mar 28, 2014

registration

If your motorhome is in storage and not ever being used does it still have to be registered?
  • Not sure what you mean by "still registered", but if you mean does it need current tabs as far as the State is concerned:

    Dunno about your State, but in mine (Washington) current registration is only required if a vehicle is using public roads. One can let a registration lapse for years, then go in and "renew", paying just for the current year. Gonna do that if I ever put my '65 Falcon wagon back on the road...

    No penalties for lapsed years, but reregistration is tied to original month/day, so one can lose a few months that way.
  • Probably depends on 'where' it's being stored... A commercial facility may require current registration on vehicles so they just don't store someones 'junk'... But, if you are paying the storage fees, I don't think that would matter to them??

    If you are storing on the street, I'm pretty sure you have to have it registered.

    If you are storing it on your own property, you don't have to have it registered, since it's on your own property..

    Good luck!

    Mitch