138.655 Definitions for KRS 138.660 to 138.7291 and KRS 138.990(14) and (15).
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<![CDATA[138.655 Definitions for KRS 138.660 to 138.7291 and KRS 138.990(14) and (15). As used in KRS 138.660 to 138.7291 and KRS 138.990(14) and (15), unless the context <br>requires otherwise: <br>(1) "Cabinet" means the Transportation Cabinet; <br>(2) "Person" includes every natural person, fiduciary, association, state or political subdivision, or corporation. Whenever used in any clause describing and imposing <br>imprisonment the term "person" as applied to an association means and includes the <br>partners or members thereof, and as applied to a corporation the officers thereof; (3) "Public highway" means every way or place generally open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purpose of vehicular travel notwithstanding that it may <br>be temporarily closed or travel thereon restricted for the purpose of construction, <br>maintenance, repair, or reconstruction; also including all city streets, alleys, and any <br>way or place on which a toll is charged for using such way or place; (4) "Motor vehicle" means any vehicle, machine, or mechanical contrivance propelled by an internal combustion engine and licensed for operation and operated upon the <br>public highways and any trailer or semitrailer attached to or having its front end <br>supported by such motor vehicle; (5) "Motor carrier" means every person who operates or causes to be operated on any highway in this state, any bus engaged in hauling passengers for hire operating <br>under a certificate of convenience and necessity and any commercial truck or <br>commercial tractor-trailer combination having a total of two (2) or more axles and a <br>declared gross weight above twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds. The number of <br>axles shall include not only those axles on the power unit but if a tractor-trailer <br>combination is involved, also those axles on the trailer or semitrailer: <br>(a) "Axle" means any two (2) or more load-carrying wheels mounted in a single transverse vertical plane; (b) "Trailers and semitrailers" are those as defined in subsections (1) and (2) of KRS 186.650, except that it does not include those trailers defined in <br>subsections (3) and (4) of KRS 186.650 and those exempted from regulation <br>under KRS 186.675. The term "motor carrier" shall not mean or shall not <br>include any person operating or causing to be operated a city bus; (c) "Commercial" refers to any activity for business purposes; <br>(d) For the purposes of KRS 138.660(3) motor carriers, trailers, and semitrailers shall not mean a farm vehicle as defined in KRS 186.050(4) or under another <br>jurisdiction's law as a farm vehicle; (6) "City bus" means any motor vehicle used for the transportation of persons for hire exclusively within the limits of any city or within ten (10) miles of its limits over a <br>regular route and exclusively within the boundaries of this state; (7) "Heavy equipment motor carrier" means any person who operates on the public highways of this state as a "motor carrier" as defined in subsection (5) of this <br>section, except that it shall not include motor vehicles used to transport persons for <br>hire; (8) "Trip permit" means a permit for the operating during a ten (10) consecutive day period of any motor vehicle of any "heavy equipment motor carrier" not licensed <br>under KRS 138.665; (9) "Licensee" means for purposes of KRS 138.660 to 138.7291 any person who has been granted a license as a "motor carrier" or a "heavy equipment motor carrier," or <br>any motor vehicle in which a valid trip permit is carried; (10) "Use" means the consumption of gasoline and special fuels in propelling motor vehicles on the public highways; (11) "Gasoline" means gasoline as defined in KRS 138.210(4); <br>(12) "Special fuels" means and includes all combustible gases and liquids used for the generation of power in an internal combustion engine to propel vehicles of any kind <br>upon the public highways, except that it does not include gasoline as defined in <br>KRS 138.210(4); (13) "Quarterly" for the purposes of KRS 138.660 to 138.7291 means a three (3) month period ending June 30 in the year 1956 and each succeeding three (3) month period <br>thereafter; (14) "Combined licensed weight" shall mean the greater of: (a) The declared combined maximum gross weight of the vehicle and any towed unit for registration purposes for the current registration period; or (b) The highest actual combined gross weight of the vehicle and any towed unit when operated on the public highways of the state during the current <br>registration period. Effective: July 15, 1996 <br>History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 363, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 175, sec. 3, effective April 1, 1988. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 174, sec. 2, effective January 1, 1987; and ch. 454, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. <br>-- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 151, sec. 4, effective July 13, 1984. -- Amended 1982 <br>Ky. Acts ch. 265, sec. 2, effective April 1, 1982. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 384, <br>sec. 564, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. IV, <br>sec. 20(2). -- Amended 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 21. -- Amended 1960 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 186, Art. IV, sec. 5. -- Amended 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 70, sec. 14. -- Amended 1956 <br>(2d Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 9, sec. 15. -- Amended 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 171, sec. 1. -<br>- Created 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 97, sec. 4. Legislative Research Commission Note (11/16/90). Because of the amendment of KRS 138.990 in 1988 Acts ch. 285, sec. 33, the text of subsections (17) and (18) of that <br>statute were reassigned as subsections (14) and (15). Pursuant to KRS 7.136(1), <br>cross-references to those two subsections in this statute have been changed to agree <br>with this renumbering. ]]>