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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
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.

More information about vehicle registration


Rev 2/15/2021 09:30