125 - Motor vehicles.

§ 125. Motor  vehicles. Every vehicle operated or driven upon a public  highway which is propelled by  any  power  other  than  muscular  power,  except  (a)  electrically-driven mobility assistance devices operated or  driven by a person with a disability, (a-1) electric personal  assistive  mobility  devices  operated  outside  a  city  with  a population of one  million or more, (b) vehicles which run only upon rails or  tracks,  (c)  snowmobiles  as  defined in article forty-seven of this chapter, and (d)  all terrain  vehicles  as  defined  in  article  forty-eight-B  of  this  chapter.  For the purposes of title four of this chapter, the term motor  vehicle shall exclude fire and police vehicles  other  than  ambulances.  For  the purposes of titles four and five of this chapter the term motor  vehicles shall exclude farm type tractors and all terrain type  vehicles  used  exclusively  for agricultural purposes, or for snow plowing, other  than for hire, farm equipment, including  self-propelled  machines  used  exclusively  in  growing,  harvesting  or  handling  farm  produce,  and  self-propelled  caterpillar  or  crawler-type  equipment   while   being  operated on the contract site.