§ 4 - Definitions
§ 4. Definitions
Except as may be otherwise provided herein, and unless the context otherwise requires in statutes relating to motor vehicles and enforcement of the law regulating vehicles, as provided in this title and part 5 of Title 20, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) "Authorized emergency vehicle" means vehicle of a fire department, police vehicle, public and private ambulance and a vehicle to which a permit has been issued pursuant to subdivision 1252(a)(1) or subdivision (2) of this title.
(2) "Button" is a traffic control marking consisting of an object, either permanently attached to the pavement or temporarily placed, and projecting above the surface.
(3) "Carrying capacity of a motor truck" shall be deemed to be the heaviest net load to be carried.
(4) "Commissioner" shall mean in this title only the commissioner of motor vehicles.
(5) "Construction area" shall mean and include all of that portion of a highway while under construction, by order of the state or a municipality thereof, located within properly posted warning signs maintained at each end thereof showing such area to have been designated as a "Construction Area".
(6) "Contractor's trailer" means any trailer or semi-trailer towed by a motor truck or truck tractor both of which have been owned or leased and registered for a period of thirty days or more by the using contract highway builder and used solely for the purpose of transporting road-making appliances or motorized highway building equipment from job to job in connection with his or her business of building, repair or maintenance of highways.
(7) "Crosswalks":
(A) That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway.
(B) Any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
(8) "Dealer" shall mean a person, partnership, or corporation who is engaged in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging new or used motor vehicles, as well as other types of motor vehicle dealers, except finance and auction dealer and transporter:
(A) who may, as part of or incidental to such business, repair such vehicles, sell parts and accessories or lease or rent motor vehicles and who:
(i) Has had no previous record of willful violations of dealer laws or regulations in this or any other jurisdiction.
(ii) For initial applications only, has had no previous record of criminal convictions for extortion, forgery, fraud, larceny or embezzlement in this or any other jurisdiction.
(iii) Has no unsatisfied judgments against him or her arising out of violations of consumer protection laws in this or any other jurisdiction.
(iv) Presents proof of compliance with the provisions of section 800 of this title at the time application for registration is made.
(v) Is open for business at least 146 days during the calendar year. When the application for registration as a new car dealer or used car dealer is made, the applicant shall provide the commissioner with the hours of operation of the business which the person shall maintain during the registration period.
(vi) Owns real estate (as defined in section 132 of Title 1) as his or her place of business or has a lease with an expiration date not earlier than the last day of the registration year for which registration is sought under the provisions of subchapter 4 of chapter 7 of this title which includes a building of at least 1,200 square feet in size used primarily for the business of the dealership. The building shall have adequate facilities for the maintenance of the records required by law to be kept including, but not limited to, those required by section 466 of this title and for the transfer of motor vehicles.
(B) "New car dealer" shall mean a person who, in addition to satisfying all of the requirements set forth in subdivision (8)(A) of this section, has a valid sales and service agreement, franchise or contract with a manufacturer, assembler, importer or distributor of new motor vehicles for the retail sale of new motor vehicles.
(C) "Finance dealer" means a person who is authorized to do business in this state and is actively engaged in and devoting a principal portion of his or her time to the wholesale and retail financing of motor vehicle sales by and through direct wholesale loans to those who are registered motor vehicle dealers under chapter 7 of this title or the purchase of retail conditional sales contracts from the dealers. A person entitled to dealer registration under this subdivision shall be deemed a dealer only to the extent of moving or operating under dealer registration a motor vehicle which he or she is repossessing in the regular course of his or her business. A person entitled to dealer registration under this subdivision shall also be entitled to demonstrate repossessed motor vehicles.
(D) "Auction dealer" means a person who is authorized to do business in this state and is engaged in the sale of motor vehicles at public auction subject to the provisions of sections 451, 458, 459, 463, 466-468 of this title. A motor vehicle to be sold at public auction by the auction dealer may be transported to the place of auction for a period of up to 30 days prior to the date of auction on auction dealer plates and then only by the dealer or his or her employee. A motor vehicle sold by an auction dealer may only be operated on auction dealer plates on the date of sale and then only by the dealer or his or her employee or by the purchaser when accompanied by the dealer or employee within ten miles of the place of auction.
(E) As used in this subdivision, "person" shall include any individual or, in the case of partnerships, corporations or other entities, the directors, shareholders, officers or partners in these entities. The term "business use of the dealer" shall only mean the motor vehicle business of the motor vehicle dealer to which number plates have been issued pursuant to section 453 of this title.
(F) For new and used car dealers, "engaged in the business" means selling 12 or more pleasure cars or motor trucks owned but not registered by the seller except for vehicles that are to be scrapped, dismantled or destroyed. "Engaged in the business" shall also mean selling, during the immediately preceding registration year, 12 or more pleasure cars or motor trucks which have been in lease or rental services, and persons so engaged shall meet all obligations required of dealers.
(9) "Edge of the roadway" is the extreme right-hand limit of any improved area within the right of way of the highway.
(10) "Eight-light system" shall mean four alternately flashing red signal lamps, two at the front and two at the rear to operate automatically when a school bus is stopped. and four alternately flashing amber signal lamps, two at the front and two at the rear, to be operated by the driver at an appropriate distance before stopping the bus.
(11) "Enforcement officers" shall include sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, police officers, state's attorneys, capitol police officers, motor vehicle inspectors, state game wardens and state police. and for enforcement of offenses relating to parking of motor vehicles, meter checkers and other duly authorized employees of a municipality employed to assist in the enforcement of parking regulations. "Enforcement officers" shall also include duly authorized employees of the department of motor vehicles for the purpose of issuing complaints related to their administrative duties, for enforcement of nonmoving traffic violations enumerated in subdivisions 2302(a)(1), (2), (3), and (4) of this title, pursuant to 4 V.S.A. § 1105.
(12) "Fresh pursuit" as used in this chapter includes fresh pursuit as defined by the common law, and also the pursuit of a suspected violator of the criminal laws or other laws of this state, for which he or she is, or might be, subject to arrest, by an enforcement officer. Fresh pursuit as used in this chapter is not necessarily instant pursuit, but pursuit without unreasonable delay.
(13) "Highway," "road," "public highway" or "public road" shall include all parts of any bridge, culvert, roadway, street, square, fairground or other place open temporarily or permanently to public or general circulation of vehicles, and shall include a way laid out under authority of law.
(14) "Intersecting highway" shall mean any highway which joins another at an angle, whether or not it crosses the other; but a driveway leading to or from private grounds shall not be interpreted to be a highway.
(15) "Jitney" shall include any motor vehicle, not designated for the carrying of merchandise or freight, advertised or regularly used for carrying passengers for hire, but not operating over a fixed route, including motor vehicles operated for hire in connection with a livery business, but shall not include any such vehicle which the owner thereof uses in an emergency for such purpose, nor one which an employer uses to transport his or her employees to and from their work, nor one which is used at least 75 percent of the time in the transportation of school children or under authority granted to a school board under section 562 of Title 16 to transport other than school children, nor one which is used in the transfer of United States mail on a star route, so-called, nor one which is used to transport elderly and handicapped persons for whom special transportation programs are designed and funded by state and federal authority through public and private, nonprofit social service agencies; nor shall it apply to cooperative use transportation.
(16) "Junior operator" shall include only such persons as are 16 and 17 years of age.
(17) "Motor bus" shall include any motor vehicle with a seating capacity of more than seven persons, other than a street car, operated upon the public streets and highways along a regular route, and in such operation receiving, discharging and transporting passengers for hire; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to transportation service the route and destination of which are under the direction and subject to the control of the passengers so transported; nor shall it apply to cooperative use transportation.
(18) "Motorcycle" shall mean any motor driven vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding mopeds, golf carts, track driven vehicles, tractors, electric personal assistive mobility devices, and vehicles on which the operator and passengers ride within an enclosed cab, except that a vehicle which is fully enclosed, has three wheels in contact with the ground, weighs less than 1,500 pounds, has the capacity to maintain posted highway speed limits, and which uses electricity as its primary motive power shall be registered as a motorcycle but the operator of such vehicle shall not be required to have a motorcycle endorsement nor to comply with the provisions of section 1256 of this title (motorcycles-headgear) in the operation of such a vehicle.
(19) "Motorized highway building equipment" shall include all bulldozers, rollers, scrapers, graders, spreaders, pavers, bituminous mixers, compressors, power shovels, excavators, dumptors, concrete mixers, bucket loaders, snow loaders, rooters and scarifiers, except road oilers and bituminous distributors, which contain as an integral part thereof and within the same unit facilities for generating motor power for propelling the same and while being used exclusively for the building, repair or maintenance of highways, or being transported or moved from job to job in connection with the building, repair or maintenance of highways; or, for purposes of registration only, if owned and operated by a municipality, while being used exclusively for municipal purposes; however, the town road commissioner, or comparable municipal officer, shall report annually to the legislative body of the municipality that the equipment is in good repair; tractors used exclusively as a power unit in drawing road making appliances or in the transportation of same or of such tractor from job to job in connection with the building, repair or maintenance of highways.
(20) "Motor truck" means any motor vehicle designed primarily for the transportation of property and shall be construed to include truck tractor-semitrailer and truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combinations.
(21) "Motor vehicle" shall include all vehicles propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power, except farm tractors, vehicles running only upon stationary rails or tracks, motorized highway building equipment, road making appliances, snowmobiles, or tracked vehicles or electric personal assistive mobility devices.
(22) "Specialized fuel driven motor vehicle" shall include all motor vehicles, the power for which is generated otherwise than by gasoline or by diesel "fuel" as defined in section 3002 of this title, excluding steam road rollers, tractors used entirely for work on the farm, and vehicles running only upon rails or tracks.
(23) "Nonresident" shall include any person who does not come under the definition of a resident.
(24) "Operate," "operating" or "operated" as applied to motor vehicles shall include "drive," "driving" and "driven" and shall also include an attempt to operate, and shall be construed to cover all matters and things connected with the presence and use of motor vehicles on the highway, whether they be in motion or at rest.
(25) "Operator" shall include all persons 18 years of age or over, properly licensed to operate motor vehicles.
(26) "Owner" shall include any person, corporation, copartnership or association, holding legal title to a motor vehicle, or having exclusive right to the use or control thereof for a period of 30 days or more.
(27) "Person" as used in this title, shall include a corporation, association, co-partnership, company, firm or other aggregation of individuals.
(28) "Pleasure car" shall include all motor vehicles not otherwise defined in this title.
(29) [Repealed.]
(30) "Resident," for purposes of this title only, means any person living in the state who intends to make the state his or her principal place of domicile either permanently or for an indefinite number of years. Without limiting the class of nonresidents under the provisions of this subdivision, persons who live in the state for a particular purpose involving a defined period of time, including students, migrant workers employed in seasonal occupations and persons employed under a contract with a fixed term, are not residents for purposes of this title only. Also in addition thereto, any foreign partnership, firm, association or corporation having a place of business in this state shall be deemed to be a resident as to all vehicles owned or leased and which are garaged or maintained in this state.
(31) "Road making appliances" shall mean all bulldozers, rollers, scrapers, graders, spreaders, pavers, retreading machines, compressors, power shovels, excavators, rock crushers, concrete mixers, snow loaders, bucket loaders, rooters, portable electric generators, pavement heaters, sweepers, steam boilers, traffic control boards, screening plants, asphalt reclaimers and scarifiers, designed to be and while being drawn by a separate motorized power unit and while being used exclusively for building, repair or maintenance of roads or highways or while being transported from job to job in connection with the building, repair or maintenance of roads or highways, except contractor's trailers.
(32) "Roadway" is that portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, exclusive of the shoulder.
(33) "Safety glass" shall mean any product composed of safety glazing materials so manufactured, fabricated or treated as substantially to prevent shattering and flying when struck or broken.
(34)(A) "School bus" means any motor vehicle used to transport children to or from school or in connection with school activities, except:
(i) buses operated by common carriers who incidentally accept school children as passengers;
(ii) private motor vehicles used to carry members of the owner's household. For the purposes of this section, private motor vehicle means a vehicle neither owned nor leased by a public school or an approved independent school;
(iii) private motor vehicles used to transport children without compensation. For the purposes of this section, compensation means payment in any form except reimbursement for mileage or the normal salary paid to a person otherwise employed by the school;
(iv) motor vehicles with a manufacturer's rated seating capacity of fewer than 11 persons, including the operator, which are owned, leased, or hired by a school, or for which services are reimbursed by a school. However, if used to transport students, these shall be considered a Type II school bus for purposes of licensure, shall display an identification sign as prescribed in subdivision 1283(a)(1) of this title, and shall be equipped with a simple system of at least two red alternating warning lights; unless the driver is a school employee or a volunteer subject to a criminal background check and is transporting no more than five persons excluding the operator; provided that the vehicle has safety belts for all persons being transported;
(v) motor coaches provided with a driver to a school on a single-trip or multi-trip contract basis to provide transportation to or from, or to and from, athletic or other special events. A motor coach is a vehicle at least 35 feet in length with a manufacturer's rated seating capacity of more than 30 passengers and is designed for long distance transportation of passengers, characterized by integral construction with an elevated passenger deck located over a baggage compartment. Pursuant to 16 V.S.A. § 255, a superintendent or headmaster shall request criminal record information for a driver of a motor coach if the driver may be in unsupervised contact with schoolchildren;
(vi) multifunction school activity buses, as defined in section 1287 of this title, provided with a driver to a school on a single-trip or multi-trip contract basis to provide transportation to or from, or to and from, athletic or other special events. Pursuant to 16 V.S.A. § 255, a superintendent or headmaster shall request criminal record information for a driver of a multifunction school activity bus if the driver may be in unsupervised contact with schoolchildren;
(vii) other multifunction school activity buses as defined in section 1287 of this title.
(B) "Type I school bus" means a school bus with a manufacturer's rated seating capacity of more than 15 passengers, including the operator.
(C) "Type II school bus" means a school bus with a manufacturer's rated seating capacity of more than 10 and fewer than 16 passengers, including the operator.
(D)-(F) [Deleted.]
(35) "Sidewalk" that portion of a street between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for use by pedestrians.
(36) "Single axle load" is the total load transmitted to the highway by all wheels whose centers may be included within two parallel transverse vertical planes less than 48 inches apart, extending across the full width of the vehicle.
(37) "Standard equipment" and "properly equipped" as applied to a motor vehicle shall include adequate tires, head lamps, tail lamps, lenses, reflectors, brakes, muffler, rear view mirror, windshield wiper, horns, windshield, number plate brackets, and only such motor fuel tank or tanks as are regularly installed by the manufacturer. "Standard equipment" and "properly equipped," as applied to motor vehicles designated by the manufacturer as 1964 or later models, shall also include safety seat belts or harnesses installed in the left and right front seats of pleasure cars and windshield defroster on pleasure cars, motor trucks and motor buses, both to be of a type approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles.
(38) "Tandem axle load" is the total load transmitted to the highway by all wheels whose centers may be included between two parallel transverse vertical planes not less than 48 inches apart and not more than eight feet apart, extending across the full width of the vehicle. A trunnion axle, with eight wheels in line, shall be considered to be a tandem axle, except that when operated upon portions of the highways which are designated as the national system of interstate and defense highways it shall be considered a single axle.
(39) "Tractor" shall include a motor vehicle designed or used primarily as a traveling power plant or for drawing other vehicles, and not so constructed as to carry any load other than a part of the weight of the vehicles and load so drawn, excepting, however, motorized highway building equipment.
(40) "Trailer" is a vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle, and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle excepting however, road making appliances and transportation dollies, and "semi-trailer" is a vehicle without motive power, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle, and so constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by the towing vehicle, excepting however, poledinkeys, transportation dollies and road making appliances.
(41) "Trailer coach" shall mean any trailer or semi-trailer designed to be towed by a motor vehicle and designed, equipped or used for sleeping, eating or living quarters.
(42) "Transporter" shall mean a person engaged in the business of delivering vehicles of a type required to be registered hereunder from a manufacturing, assembling, or distributing plant to dealers or sales agents of a manufacturer, and includes persons regularly engaged in the business of towing trailer coaches, owned by them or temporarily in their custody, on their own wheels over public highways, persons towing office trailers owned by them or temporarily in their custody, on their own wheels over public highways, persons regularly engaged and properly licensed for the short-term rental of "storage trailers" owned by them and who move these storage trailers on their own wheels over public highways, and persons regularly engaged in the business of moving modular homes over public highways and shall also include dealers and automobile repair shop owners when engaged in the transportation of motor vehicles to and from their place of business for repair purposes. "Transporter" shall include other persons, firms or corporations, provided the transportation and delivery of motor vehicles is a common and usual incident to the repossession of motor vehicles in connection with their business. For purposes of this subdivision, "short-term rental" shall mean a period of less than one year. Before a person may become licensed as a transporter, he or she shall present proof of compliance with section 800 of this title. He or she shall also either own or lease a permanent place of business located in this state where business shall be conducted during regularly established business hours and the required records stored and maintained.
(43) "Truck crane" shall mean a motor truck equipped with a permanently mounted hoisting apparatus, winch, or derrick, designed for the moving of objects, with no provision for carrying a load on the body of such truck crane except equipment used for the operation of a hoisting apparatus, winch, or derrick.
(44) "Moving violation" shall mean any violation of any provision of this title, while the motor vehicle is being operated on a public highway, over which operation the operator has discretion as to commission of the act, with exception of offenses pertaining to a parked vehicle, equipment, size, weight, inspection or registration of the vehicle and child restraint or safety belt systems or seat belts as required in section 1258 or 1259 of this title.
(45) "Moped" means a motor driven cycle equipped with two or three wheels, foot pedals to permit muscular propulsion, a power source providing up to a maximum of two brake horsepower and having a maximum piston or rotor displacement of 50 cubic centimeters if a combustion engine is used, which will propel the vehicle, unassisted, at a speed not to exceed 30 miles per hour on a level road surface and is equipped with a power drive system that functions directly or automatically only, not requiring clutching or shifting by the operator after the drive system is engaged. As motor vehicles, mopeds shall be subject to the purchase and use tax imposed under chapter 219 of Title 32 rather than to a general sales tax. An electric personal assistive mobility device is not a moped.
(46) [Deleted.]
(47) "Cooperative use transportation" is defined as the collective nonprofit use by two or more people of privately-owned vehicles when the providing of transportation is not the primary business of the owner and/or driver of the vehicle, but is incidental to their livelihood. Cooperative use shall include, but not be limited to, shared driving, and shared expense; employer-owned or leased vehicles, including buses, which are operated for employee commuting purposes, commuter services organized and arranged by employee cooperatives, labor unions, credit unions, and neighborhood groups which are operated for the convenience of their members.
(48) "License to operate a motor vehicle." Any operator's license or any other license or permit to operate a motor vehicle issued under, or granted by, the laws of this state including:
(A) Any temporary license or learner's permit.
(B) The privilege of any person to operate a motor vehicle whether or not such person holds a valid license.
(C) Any nonresident's operating privilege.
(49) "Revocation of a license" means the termination by formal action of the commissioner of a person's license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle on the public highways whereby the license or privilege shall not be subject to renewal or restoration except upon an application for a new license presented to and acted upon by the commissioner after the expiration of the applicable period of time prescribed in this title. The term also includes the refusal of the right of an unlicensed person to apply for a license.
(50) "Suspension of license" means the withdrawal by formal action of the commissioner, for a specific period of time and until reinstatement by the commissioner, of a person's license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle on the public highways. The term also includes the refusal of the right of an unlicensed person to apply for a license.
(51) "Single-axle tow dolly" is a vehicle towed by a self-propelled motor vehicle and designed and used exclusively to transport another self-propelled motor vehicle which shall not be required to be registered and upon which the front or rear wheels of the towed self-propelled motor vehicle are mounted, while the other wheels of the towed self-propelled motor vehicle remain in contact with the ground. These vehicles shall not be subject to registration or titling nor shall they be treated as a separate vehicle when used in combination with another vehicle. They shall be subject to equipment safety requirements.
(52) "Alcohol assessment screening" means an assessment of an individual's use of alcohol which includes consideration of the results of any available tests relating to the individual's blood alcohol content, the individual's motor vehicle record, responses to an alcohol screening questionnaire approved by the secretary of human services, personal interviews, and any other relevant information which is identified in any subsequent report.
(53) "Truck tractor" shall include a motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles but so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
(54) "Transportation dolly" means a vehicle towed by a motor vehicle and designed and used exclusively in the transport of buildings which are not normally transported over the highway and whose dimensions and/or weight would require a permit subject to engineering inspection, which consists of sets of single or double axles with wheels set in such configurations underneath the building to be moved so as to distribute the weight of the load. This vehicle shall not be subject to registration and shall be exempt from titling and so treated whether used singly or in conjunction as one separate vehicle when used in combination with another vehicle. However, all moves shall be governed by the commissioner's rules and regulations for oversize and overdimension moves.
(55) "Unprocessed milk products" means raw milk transported in bulk when transported in a milk tank truck, semi-trailer, trailer or combination thereof.
(56) "Full or semi-flotation applicator vehicle" means a vehicle used for the application of lime, fertilizer, or agricultural chemicals.
(57) "Month" means 30 days and "year" means 365 days.
(58) "Privilege to operate" includes the privilege of a nonresident to operate a motor vehicle within the state and includes the privilege of a resident to obtain a license.
(59) "Disqualification" means a withdrawal of the privilege to drive a commercial motor vehicle.
(60) "Conviction" means an unvacated final adjudication of guilt, or a final determination that a person has violated or failed to comply with the law in a court of original jurisdiction or an authorized administrative tribunal, an unvacated forfeiture of bail or collateral deposited to secure the person's appearance in court, the payment of a fine or court cost, or violation of a condition of release without bail, regardless of whether or not the penalty is rebated, suspended or probated. Conviction shall also mean a plea of guilty or nolo contendere which has been accepted by the court.
(61) "Storage trailer" shall mean any regularly manufactured box type trailer which has been removed from normal over the highway service and is used solely for the storage of commodities at a fixed site for extended periods of time. When a storage trailer is moved over the public highways, it shall not contain cargo weighing more than 2,000 pounds, be properly equipped, in good mechanical condition and inspectable under the provisions of section 1222 of this title, except that storage trailers need not display an inspection sticker.
(62) "New motor vehicle" means a vehicle that is being registered or titled for the first time.
(63) "Used motor vehicle" means a vehicle that previously has been registered or titled.
(64) Commercial fleet inspection station shall mean a company or business that has been designated by the commissioner as an official commercial fleet inspection station, provided it has 10 or more motor vehicles registered in the name of the company or business, and meets all the requirements for designation as an official inspection station. Commercial fleet inspection stations shall be authorized to inspect only those vehicles registered to the company or business.
(65) Municipal fleet inspection station shall mean a municipality that has been designated as an official municipal fleet inspection station, provided it has motor vehicles registered in the name of the municipality, and meets all the requirements for designation as an official inspection station. Municipal fleet inspection stations shall be authorized to inspect only those vehicles registered to a municipality.
(66) "Electric personal assistive mobility device" (EPAMD) means a self-balancing, two nontandem-wheeled device, designed to transport only one person, with an electric propulsion system with average power of 750 watts (1 h.p.).
(67) "Pedestrian" means any person afoot, and shall also include any person 16 years of age or older operating an electric personal assistive mobility device. The age restriction of this subdivision shall not apply to a person who has an ambulatory disability as defined in section 304a of this title.
(68) "Farm tractor" means a traveling power plant or a self-propelled device which functions as part of crop production, harvesting, feeding, or livestock management, or is used for drawing a farm trailer as defined in subdivision (69) of this section. "Farm tractor" also means a self-propelled vehicle designed to perform single-purpose functions, such as land preparation, crop protection, or harvesting. The term "farm tractor" shall not include a "motor truck" as defined in subdivision (20) of this section.
(69) "Farm trailer" means a vehicle or equipment, designed and adapted exclusively for tilling, planting, harvesting, management, or for carrying inputs to or outputs from agricultural, horticultural, or livestock-raising operations, or farm equipment, without motive power, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle, a farm truck, or a farm tractor, and, in any case, not subject to registration if used upon the highway.
(70) "Agricultural custom service vehicle" means a motor truck used on a farm for planting, harvesting, or transporting crops or waste products produced on the farm, that is owned by a person providing custom services who is not a farmer as defined in subdivision 3752(7) of Title 32. In order to qualify as an "agricultural custom service vehicle," a motor truck shall be registered under either subsection 367(a) or (f) of this title and shall be exempt from sections 1400 and 1400a of this title if the gross weight does not exceed 60,000 pounds. The operator of an "agricultural custom service vehicle" shall be exempt from the requirements of chapter 39 of this title, to the extent allowed by federal law.
(71) "Agricultural service vehicle" means a motor truck that shall be registered under subsection 367(a) of this title, and is used for the purpose of transporting to or from a farm:
(A) agricultural inputs, including lime, fertilizer, commercial feed, or forages; or
(B) agricultural outputs, including milk, vegetables, fruit, horticultural crops, forages, or livestock.
(72) "Farm truck" means a motor truck which, at the option of the owner, may be registered under the provisions of subsection 367(f) of this title, or may be unregistered when used in accordance with subsection 370(b) of this title.
(73) "Neighborhood electric vehicle" means a self-propelled, electrically-powered motor vehicle which:
(A) is emission free;
(B) is designed to carry four or fewer persons;
(C) is designed to be, and is, operated at speeds of 25 miles per hour or less;
(D) has at least four wheels in contact with the ground;
(E) has a gross vehicle weight rating less than 3,000 pounds;
(F) conforms to the minimum safety equipment requirements as adopted in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 500, Low Speed Vehicles (49 C.F.R. 571, 500).
(74) "Category I special purpose vehicle" means a vehicle that is used exclusively as a back hoe, bucket loader, grader, truck shovel (wheeled excavator), street sweeper, or fork lift truck.
(75) "Category II special purpose vehicle" means a vehicle that is used exclusively as a truck crane, wrecker, concrete form truck, concrete pumper truck, bituminous distributor, calcium chloride distributor, full or semi-flotation applicator, well driller tender truck (these vehicles may tow a pick-up truck), permanently mounted well drilling machine, road oiler, water tanker used for dust control, or a truck used to transport a building by use of a "transportation dolly" as defined in subdivision 4(54) of this title.
(76) "Wrecker" shall mean a motor truck equipped with a permanently mounted hoisting apparatus, winch, or derrick, designed for moving and towing motor vehicles, with no provision for carrying a load on the body of the truck except motor vehicles, parts and equipment used for the repair of motor vehicles, and equipment used for the operation of a hoisting apparatus, winch, or derrick.
(77) "Stiff hitch" shall mean a tow bar used by a self-propelled motor vehicle to tow another self-propelled motor vehicle while all the wheels of the towed vehicle remain in contact with the ground. The towed vehicle shall not be required to be registered.
(78) "Enhanced license" shall mean an operator's license, commercial driver license, junior operator's license, or nondriver identification card that denotes identity and citizenship, and includes facilitative technology identified by the Department of Homeland Security.
(79) "Personal radio frequency identification number chip" shall mean the number assigned to the transmitting chip in an enhanced license.
(80) An "all-surface vehicle" or "ASV" means any non-highway recreational vehicle, except a snowmobile, when used for cross-country travel on trails or on any one of the following or combination of the following: land, water, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, and natural terrain. An all-surface vehicle shall be designed for use both on land and in water, with or without tracks, shall be capable of flotation and shall be equipped with a skid-steering system, a sealed body, a fully contained cooling system, and six or eight tires designed to be inflated with an operating pressure not exceeding 10 pounds per square inch as recommended by the manufacturer. An all-surface vehicle shall have a net weight of 1,500 pounds or less, shall have a width of 75 inches or less, shall be equipped with an engine of not more than 50 horsepower, and shall have a maximum speed of not more than 25 miles per hour. An ASV when operated in water shall be considered to be a motor boat and shall be subject to the provisions of subchapter 2 of chapter 29 of this title. An ASV operated anywhere except in water shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 31 of this title. (Amended 1961, No. 137, § 1; 1963, No. 32; No. 54; No. 90, § 1; No. 206, § 1; No. 223, § 2; 1964, No. 19 (Sp. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 9, 1964; 1965, No. 91; No. 106, § 1, eff. Feb. 1, 1966; No. 119, eff. Sept. 1, 1965; No. 120, § 2; No. 204, § 1; 1966, No. 40 (Sp. Sess.), §§ 1-4, eff. March 11, 1966; 1967, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; No. 341 (Adj. Sess.), § 12; 1969, No. 258 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 1, 1970; No. 259 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 12; 1971, No. 14, § 6, eff. March 11, 1971; 1971, No. 258 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, eff. March 1, 1973; 1973, No. 25, § 1, eff. March 15, 1973; 1975, No. 71, § 1, eff. April 17, 1975; 1975, No. 135 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Feb. 17, 1976; No. 149 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; No. 192 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; No. 214 (Adj. Sess.); No. 234 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1977, No. 20, §§ 1, 8; No. 102, §§ 2, 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1977; 1977, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), eff. April 5, 1978; No. 249 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 6, eff. April 19, 1978; 1979, No. 19, eff. April 6, 1979; No. 46, §§ 6, 7, eff. April 26, 1979; 1979, No. 125 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 3, eff. April 15, 1980; No. 129 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 2, eff. April 18, 1980; 1983, No. 6, eff. Feb. 23, 1983; 1983, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; No. 102 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 4, 5; No. 108 (Adj. Sess.); No. 134 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; No. 212 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1985, No. 12, § 1; No. 85, § 1; 1985, No. 104 (Adj. Sess.); No. 124 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 7, 9, eff. April 18, 1986; No. 239 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 2; 1987, No. 11; No. 18; No. 62, § 2; 1987, No. 145 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. May 13, 1988; No. 190 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; No. 209 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 1989, No. 51, § 7; 1989, No. 127 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 15, 1990; No. 179 (Adj. Sess.), § 7, eff. May 14, 1990; No. 204 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; No. 239 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1991, No. 72, § 1; No. 88, § 1; 1991, No. 143 (Adj. Sess.); No. 165 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1993, No. 18, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1994; No. 64, §§ 1, 2.; 1993, No. 212 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 2, 4; 1995, No. 112 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1997, No. 32, § 1; No. 50, § 44, eff. June 26, 1997; No. 55, § 1, eff. June 26, 1997; 1999, No. 18, § 41i, eff. May 13, 1999; No. 31, § 1, eff. May 19, 1999; § 2, eff. July 1, 1999; No. 34, § 6; 1999, No. 110 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 1a, 2; No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 49, eff. May 24, 2000; 2001, No. 38, § 2; 2001, No. 91 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1-4; No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 2003, No. 8, § 1; No. 56, § 69, eff. June 4, 2003; No. 66, § 217b; 2003, No. 109 (Adj. Sess.), § 8; 2005, No. 29, § 1; 2005, No. 175 (Adj. Sess.), § 40; No. 188 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2007, No. 20, §§ 1, 2; No. 61, § 1; No. 75, § 32; 2007, No. 153 (Adj. Sess.), § 37; 2007, No. 164 (Adj. Sess.), § 49; No. 184 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 1, 2; No. 188 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)