(a) The annual fees for the licensing of the operation of vehicles shall be as follows for each vehicle registered:

(1) For each passenger motor vehicle not operated as a common or contract carrier for hire.......................$ 20.00

(2) For each motorcycle................................... 20.00

(3)(A) For each private truck in accordance with the owner declared gross vehicle weight, as follows:

(i) Less than 14,000 lbs.............................. 20.00

(ii) 14,000 to 18,000 lbs............................. 25.00

(iii) 18,001 to 26,000 lbs............................ 38.00

(iv) 26,001 to 30,000 lbs............................. 45.00

(v) 30,001 to 36,000 lbs.............................. 70.00

(vi) 36,001 to 44,000 lbs............................. 115.00

(vii) 44,001 to 54,999 lbs............................ 190.00

(viii) 55,000 to 63,280 lbs........................... 300.00

(ix) 63,281 lbs. to maximum permitted................. 400.00

(B) Subparagraph (A) of this paragraph notwithstanding:

(i) A straight truck which is not a truck-tractor shall not be classified higher than $75.00;

(ii) A straight truck hauling fertilizer and agricultural products shall not be classified higher than $31.00; and

(iii) A truck-tractor hauling fertilizer or milk shall not be classified higher than $220.00;

(4) For each farm truck................................... 20.00

(5) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Code section, for each private trailer.................... 20.00

(6)(A) For each farm trailer including, but not limited to, horse and cattle trailers, the maximum fee shall be $12.00.

(B) There shall be no fee for trailers:

(i) Used exclusively to haul agricultural products from one place on the farm to another or from one farm or field to another;

(ii) With no springs which are being employed in hauling unprocessed farm products to their market destination; and

(iii) With no springs which are pulled from a tongue and used primarily to transport fertilizer to the farm;

(7) For house trailers, auto trailers, and boat trailers, whether pulled by a private automobile or a private truck, and not used as or in connection with a motor vehicle, truck, or tractor used as a common or contract carrier for hire................................. 12.00

(8) For trailers used as or in connection with a motor vehicle, truck, or tractor used as a common or contract carrier for hire.......................................... 12.00

(9) For each motor bus or van-type vehicle used as a common or contract carrier for hire in public transportation transporting passengers, the following:

(A) Weighing 10,000 pounds or less, $1.90 per 100 pounds factory weight or fractional part of 100 pounds factory weight;

(B) Weighing more than 10,000 pounds and not over 15,000 pounds factory weight, $2.75 for each 100 pounds or fractional part of 100 pounds factory weight;

(C) Weighing more than 15,000 pounds and not more than 20,000 pounds factory weight, $3.45 for each 100 pounds or fractional part of 100 pounds factory weight; and

(D) Weighing more than 20,000 pounds factory weight, $3.75 for each 100 pounds or fractional part of 100 pounds factory weight. No motor bus license fee shall exceed $875.00;

(10)(A) For each truck or nonpassenger-carrying motor vehicle operated as a common or contract carrier for hire in accordance with owner declared gross vehicle weight, as follows:

(i) Less than 14,000 lbs.............................. 20.00

(ii) 14,000 to 18,000 lbs............................. 25.00

(iii) 18,001 to 26,000 lbs............................ 38.00

(iv) 26,001 to 30,000 lbs............................. 85.00

(v) 30,001 to 36,000 lbs.............................. 130.00

(vi) 36,001 to 44,000 lbs............................. 215.00

(vii) 44,001 to 54,999 lbs............................ 365.00 (viii) 55,000 to 63,280 lbs........................... 575.00

(ix) 63,281 lbs. to maximum permitted................. 725.00

(B) Subparagraph (A) of this paragraph notwithstanding, a straight truck which is not a truck-tractor shall not be classified higher than $150.00;

(11) For each truck leased to a common or contract carrier without regard to the duration of the lease and in accordance with the owner declared gross vehicle weight, the same license fees as required under paragraph (10) of this Code section;

(12) For each motor driven hearse or ambulance............ 20.00

(13) For each school bus operated exclusively in the transportation of pupils and teachers to and from schools or school activities or in the transportation of the owner and the members of his immediate family, the sum of $20.00. A bus owned by a church or owned in common with other churches and used and operated exclusively for the church in transporting members and patrons to and from church or church activities, when no part of the proceeds of the operation of the bus inures to the benefit of any private person, shall be licensed for the sum of $20.00 in the same manner as school buses when the bus complies with the laws applicable to school buses;

(14) For each motor vehicle owned by the state or by a political subdivision or municipality of the state and used exclusively for governmental functions............... 1.00

(15) For each motor vehicle used by carriers and operated under special franchise granted by the United States Department of Defense over a route of not more than 20 miles in length which is solely between a point in this state and a point within a United States military reservation in this state........................ 20.00

(16) Heavy earth-moving machinery, fertilizer application equipment, and crop protection chemical application equipment, not including trucks, used primarily off the highway shall not be required to be licensed under this chapter;

(17)(A) Trucks transporting logs, pulpwood, or other forest products shall be licensed in accordance with the following annual fees:

(i) Straight trucks and truck-tractors pulling a single pole trailer hauling logs from the woods to the sawmill........................................... 38.00

(ii) Other truck-tractors............................. 220.00

(B) Skidders, tractors, and loaders used only in the woods shall not be required to be licensed. Trucks and truck-tractors specified in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall be licensed in accordance with this paragraph even though the trucks or truck-tractors are also used to transport skidders, tractors, loaders, and other logging equipment. Trucks and truck-tractors specified in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall not be required to pay additional fees or obtain additional license plates in order to transport logging equipment owned by the owner of the trucks or truck-tractors;

(18) For each agricultural field use vehicle.............. 31.00

(b) In lieu of the annual fee provided in paragraph (8) of subsection (a) of this Code section, the optional one-time fee for a permanent registration and license plate for any trailer used as or in connection with a motor vehicle, truck, or tractor used as a common or contract carrier for hire, a private carrier, or a motor carrier of property and authorized to obtain a permanent registration and license plate under the provisions of Code Section 40-2-47 shall be $48.00.