§ 4009 Vehicle Registration Exemption

• •If a car or truck is being carried on another vehicle (like on a tow truck or a trailer) and none of its wheels or parts are touching the road, it doesn’t need to be registered.
• •This rule only applies when the vehicle is being moved this way—if it’s driving on its own, it still needs registration.
• •The law is about avoiding double rules for vehicles that aren’t actually using the road.

A broken-down car is being towed on a flatbed truck, with all four wheels off the ground.

Since the car isn’t touching the road at all, it doesn’t need to be registered while it’s being moved like this. But if you drive it normally later, you’d still need to register it.