For purposes of motor vehicle regulation and taxation, AAMVA offers the following definition of “resident:”
 

1. Any person, except a tourist or student, who owns, leases or rents a place of domicile within a jurisdiction and who remains in the jurisdiction for a consecutive period of ninety days or more. 
2. Members of the U.S. Armed Forces, personnel or employees of state and federal governments or their families, within their home jurisdiction. 
3. Any individual, partnership, company, firm, corporation or association which maintains a main or branch office or warehouse facility within the jurisdiction or which regularly operates motor vehicles in the jurisdiction. 
4. Any individual, partnership, company, firm, corporation or association which operates motor vehicles in intrastate haulage in the jurisdiction.  
5. Any person who meets the residence requirement to obtain a credential in the jurisdiction.   

[Amended 2018]