Permanent Registration for Trailers and Older Vehicles
If you live in an unorganized borough or an organized borough that passes an ordinance to participate, you may be eligible for permanent registration for your noncommercial trailer or 8 year-old or older vehicle beginning January 2015.
What does this mean?
If eligible, and your registration expires January 31, 2015, or later, you can pay a one-time $25 permanent registration fee along with registration fees and motor vehicle registration taxes. At that time you will be issued a permanent “Z” tab and will not have to renew your registration again.
What if let my registration expire so I can permanently register my vehicle in January?
The effective date of this bill is January 1, 2015, so only vehicles with registrations expiring January 31, 2015, or later are eligible for permanent registration. If your registration expired in October 2014 and you want to wait until January to permanently register your vehicle, you will not be allowed because the law was not in effect when your registration expired. Instead, you will be required to renew your biennial registration for another cycle because the option for a permanent registration did not exist at the time your registration expired.
What if I buy a vehicle with a permanent registration?
If you purchase a vehicle with a permanent tab, you must pay full registration fees and motor vehicle registration taxes (if applicable). If you wish to permanently register the vehicle you must also pay an additional $25.
What if I sell a vehicle with a permanent registration?
If you sell a vehicle with a permanent tab, the new owner may elect to permanently register the vehicle by paying $25, full registration fees, and motor vehicle registration taxes (if applicable).
Can I permanently register my vehicle online?
Yes. You may apply using our online system here.
What communities are eligible?
Anyone who lives in an unorganized borough or in a borough that has enacted an ordinance allowing permanent registration.
Location City/Borough | Effective Date of Ordinance | Participation |
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Bristol Bay Borough (including Naknek, South Naknek, King Salmon) | 2/6/2023 | Vehicles 8 years old or older & Trailers any age |
Northwest Arctic Borough (includes Amber, Buckland, Deering, Kiana, Kivalina, Kobuk, Kotzebue, Noatak, Noorvik, Selawik, Shungnak | 10/25/2022 | Vehicles 8 years old or older & Trailers any age |
City and Borough of Sitka | 10/13/2020 | Vehicles 8 years old or older & Trailers any age |
City of Haines | 10/22/2019 | Trailers any age |
City of Hoonah | 7/1/2018 | Vehicles 8 years old or older & Trailers any age |
Kenai Peninsula Borough | 7/1/2017 | Vehicles 8 years old or older & Trailers any age |
Municipality of Anchorage | 1/1/2017 | Trailers any age |
City of Yakutat | 3/1/2016 | Vehicles 8 years old or older & Trailers any age |
City of Nenana | 6/1/2015 | Vehicles 8 years old or older & Trailers any age |
Denali Borough | 5/1/2015 | Vehicles 8 years old or older & Trailers any age |
Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 3/1/2015 | Vehicles 8 years old or older & Trailers any age |
Fairbanks North Star Borough | 3/1/2015 | Vehicles 8 years old or older & Trailers any age |
City of Valdez | 3/1/2015 | Vehicles 8 years old or older & Trailers any age |
For a complete list of currently eligible towns see our list.