Ditto Colorado in Kansas. ALL powered AND nonpowered vessels are not titled, but must have registration (3 years=$28) and numbers, which is controlled by the Fish & Game department. A park ranger may issue a citation against the registration number. Being landlocked, this is obviously simpler than a coastal state. Accessment of personal property taxes are based on the registration. None in Florida? A trailer is titled, but only liscenced if total road weight is 2,000 lbs. or greater.
Actually all of our trailers are registered,about 17 bucks a year. Fla. bases the cost of registering a trailer on it's empty weight. Trailers 2000 lbs. and up are titled as well as registered. Like a car.
What I do here and what might work for you guys having trouble getting your trailers registered is tell them it's a homemade trailer. I've never had a problem doing it this way.
Other states may register without titling but I'm sure Fla. would. We went through this with dirt bikes. We have an area that the state runs that charges us 50 bucks a year for a permit. In 2002 they changed the law requiring all dirt bikes to have titles. All the bikes built before that year had to get titles to get the permit. I have two atv's and two dirt bikes. 45 per title and 50 per permit. Not bad, but It adds up.
Now for the kicker..Before this law took effect I could sell a bike with a bill of sale. Just like selling a tv, catamaran, etc. Now you have to go to the tax collector to transfer title. One of the questions your asked is.... are you ready??? HOW MUCH DID YOU PAY FOR IT. The state collects sales tax on the purchase. You think your going to say I paid 100 bucks for a 2003 Tiger to avoid it but then the tax collector pulls out the NADA boat book and finds your boat and...... you know what she see's. They charge a tax based on the average listed in that book. If you have an older boat that doesn't appear you might skirt it but the last time I looked in that book a early 80's model H-18 was worth 1500 bucks.
Now, who wants registering?
Jeff, what you guys pay seem very reasonable but state and federal lands don't belong to them they belong to us. We should have access to them without cost. We already pay taxes that buy them and fund them. This topic comes up now and then, The city wants to buy some water front property for millions of dollars to put in a park. You know some plants, benches and trees. A fine addition to our city they say. A real nice place to eat your lunch. There's no charge to walk into the park on side walks, to eat there, admire the groomed grass and fauna, and use the garbage cans to dispose of your lunch wrapper. Yet there is a cost in maintaining that park. Who pays for that? Why don't they require a permit to eat lunch?
We should have the same access.
My 0.02 cts.
