33.1-56.1 - Definitions.
§ 33.1-56.1. Definitions.
For purposes of this article:
"Board" means the Commonwealth Transportation Board;
"High-occupancy requirement" means the number of persons required to betraveling in a vehicle for the vehicle to use HOT lanes without the paymentof a toll. Emergency vehicles, law-enforcement vehicles using HOT lanes inthe performance of their duties, and mass transit vehicles and commuter busesshall meet the high-occupancy requirement for HOT lanes, regardless of thenumber of occupants in the vehicle;
"High-occupancy toll lanes" or "HOT lanes" means a portion of a highwaycontaining one or more travel lanes separated from other lanes, that has anelectronic toll collection system, provides for free passage by vehicles thatmeet the high-occupancy requirement, and contains a photo-enforcement systemfor use in such electronic toll collection. HOT lanes shall not be a "tollfacility" or "HOV lanes" for the purposes of any other provision of law orregulation;
"HOT lanes operator" means the operator of the facility containing HOTlanes, which may include the Virginia Department of Transportation or someother entity;
"Mass transit vehicles" and "commuter buses" mean vehicles providing ascheduled transportation service to the general public. Such vehicles shallcomprise nonprofit, publicly or privately owned or operated transportationservices, programs, or systems that may be funded pursuant to § 58.1-638;
"Owner" means the registered owner of a vehicle on record with theDepartment of Motor Vehicles, or with the equivalent agency in another state."Owner" does not mean a vehicle rental or vehicle leasing company;
"Photo-enforcement system" means a sensor installed in conjunction with atoll collection device to detect the presence of a vehicle that automaticallyproduces one or more photographs, one or more microphotographs, a videotape,or other recorded images of each vehicle's license plate at the time it isdetected by the toll collection device; and
"Unauthorized vehicle" means a motor vehicle that is restricted from use ofthe HOT lanes pursuant to subdivision D 1 of § 33.1-56.3.
(2004, c. 783; 2008, cc. 167, 280.)