Apply for a farm registration

The following documents are required to obtain Farm plates:

1. A Business certificate from the city or town in which you are doing business.
2. Corporation papers from the Secretary of State, Department of Corporations and Taxation (if applicable).
3. A Federal Identification Number/Employer Identification Number (FID/EIN) from the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS). If you do not have an FID/EIN, you can obtain one from the IRS at 1-800-829-4933. If you currently have an FID/EIN, please enclose a copy of one of the following most common forms of proof of an FID/EIN:

• Any pre-printed IRS correspondence that includes corporation name, address, and FID/EIN number
• Federal Tax Deposit Coupon Form 8109
• Form 147C
• Notice of New Employer Identification Number Assigned Form 5372
• CP575 Notice (issued by the IRS). This is a letter sent to a customer to confirm issuance of an FID number.
• Certificate of Exemption Form ST-2 (issued by DOR)

If your business is unincorporated (e.g. a sole proprietor or general partnership), then the pre-printed IRS correspondence must list the owner information in this sequence: the individual’s name, business name, and address.

4. A list of all authorized users who will have access to the Section 5 plates and a photocopy of a valid driver’s license for each authorized user.
5. A photocopy of your most recent tax return.
6. Photocopies of the titles for all vehicles that will be used with the farm registration.

Definition of Farmer

Farmer, a person substantially engaged in the occupation of farming which shall include, but not be limited to, farming in all its branches, the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of any agricultural, aquacultural, floricultural or horticultural commodities, the growing and harvesting of forest products upon forest land, the raising of livestock including horses, the keeping of horses as a commercial enterprise, the keeping and raising of poultry, swine, cattle and other domesticated animals used for food purposes, bees, fur-bearing animals, and any forestry or lumbering operations, performed by a farmer engaged in agriculture or farming as herein defined, or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations including, but not limited to, preparations for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market.

Excise Information

A Farmer has the ability to attach its Section 5 plate to a vehicle that has been identified from a list of Compliance decals. As stated earlier, the Compliance decal is issued to a specific vehicle only when the RMV is satisfied that the sale tax and vehicle title requirements are met. The compliance decal information is used to generate the excise tax bill information. The RMV sends an excise report to the town in mid April for these Section 5 registrants. The bills are payable directly to the city or town.