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As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
- COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE
- A bus, a school bus, a school transportation vehicle, a motor
vehicle, except a motor home, having a gross vehicle weight rating
or gross combination weight rating of 26,001 or more pounds; a motor
vehicle towing a vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of more
than 10,000 pounds; or a motor vehicle carrying hazardous material
and on which is required to be posted a placard as defined and required
under 49 CFR Parts 100 to 199. A commercial motor vehicle does not
include a vehicle used exclusively to transport personal possessions
or family members for nonbusiness uses.
- COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT
- Any construction equipment or large equipment used primarily
in the course of conducting a trade or business.
- COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
- All motor vehicles used for the transportation of passengers
for hire or constructed or used for transportation of goods, wares
or merchandise, and/or all motor vehicles designed and used for driving
other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon
either independently or any part of the weight of the vehicle or load
so drawn. Vehicles commonly referred to as "tow trucks," "dump trucks,"
"tractors" or "tractor/trailers" shall be subject to the prohibitions
of this article regardless of their gross vehicle weight.
- CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
- Bulldozers, front-end loaders, power shovels and other heavy
construction equipment or trailers designed for the transportation
of such equipment.
- GROSS COMBINATION WEIGHT RATING (GCWR)
- The value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight
of a combination vehicle. In the absence of a value specified by the
manufacturer, GCWR will be determined by adding the GVWR of the power
unit and the total weight of the towed unit and any load on that unit.
- GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT RATING (GVWR)
- The value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight
of a single vehicle.
- MOTOR VEHICLE
- Every self-propelled device in, upon or by which any person
or property is or may be transported or drawn upon the land, including,
but not limited to, automobiles, motorcycles, scooters and trucks.
- OPERATOR
- Any person who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle.
- OWNER
- Any person in whose name the legal title of a motor vehicle
is registered or, in the event such vehicle is the subject of a lease
or conditional sales agreement, the lessee or person with the right
of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement
and with immediate right of possession.
- PARKING
- The standing of a motor vehicle upon the land, attended or
unattended by an operator thereof.
- STREET or HIGHWAY
- A way or right-of-way open to the public for vehicular travel.
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