As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
AUTOMOBILE
Includes all motor vehicles except motorcycles.
COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE
Includes every type of motor-driven vehicle used for commercial
purposes on the highways, such as the transportation of goods, wares
and merchandise, excepting such vehicles as are run only upon rails
or tracks and vehicles of the passenger car type used for touring
purposes or the carrying of farm products and milk, as the case may
be.
COMMUTER VAN
A motor vehicle having a seating capacity of not less than
seven nor more than 15 adult passengers, in which seven or more persons
commute on a daily basis to and from work and which vehicle may also
be operated by the driver or other designated persons for their personal
use.
INTERMODAL CONTAINER
A large standardized shipping container, designed and built
for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be
used across different modes of transport, from ship to rail to truck,
without unloading and reloading their cargo.
MOTOR VEHICLE
Includes all vehicles propelled otherwise than by muscular
power, excepting such vehicles as run only upon rails or tracks and
motorized bicycles.
MOTOR-DRAWN VEHICLE
Includes trailers, semitrailers, or any other type of vehicle
drawn by a motor-driven vehicle.
NONCOMMERCIAL TRUCK
Every motor vehicle designed primarily for transportation
of property, and which is not a "commercial vehicle."
OWNER
A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle, or if a
vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or
lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions
stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession
vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or if a mortgagor of a
vehicle is entitled to possession, then the conditional vendee, lessee
or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this chapter.
PARKING
The standing or waiting on a street, road or highway of a
vehicle not actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers
or merchandise, unless in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic
signs or signals.
PASSENGER AUTOMOBILE
All automobiles used and designed for the transportation
of passengers, other than omnibuses and school buses.
POLE TRAILER
Every vehicle without motor power designed to be drawn by
another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach,
or pole, or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle,
and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads,
such as but not limited to boats, motorcycles, machinery, poles, pipes,
or structural members capable, generally, of sustaining themselves
as beams between the supporting connections, enclosed or otherwise.
RECREATION VEHICLE
A trailer, camper or van self-propelled or towed vehicle
equipped to serve as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping
or travel purposes and used solely as a family or personal conveyance.
SEMITRAILER
Every vehicle with or without motor power, other than a pole
trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being 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 another vehicle.
SHIPPING CONTAINER
Any container of strength suitable to withstand shipment,
storage and handling.
TRAILER
Every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a
pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being
drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight
rests upon the towing vehicle.
TRUCK
Every motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily
for the transportation of property.
TRUCK TRACTOR
Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing
other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than
a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which a person or property is
or may be transported upon a highway, excepting devices moved by human
power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks or motorized
bicycles.