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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 11:10:11
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 28', '§ 28', '§ 28', '§ 28', 'art 1308', 'art 73']

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§ 28-101 Definitions
Universal Citation: AZ Rev Stat § 28-101 (2017)
1. " Alcohol" means any substance containing any form of alcohol, including ethanol, methanol, propynol and isopropynol.
2. " Alcohol concentration" if expressed as a percentage means either:
3. " All-terrain vehicle" means either of the following:
(ii) Is sixty-five or fewer inches in width.
4. " Authorized emergency vehicle" means any of the following:
5. " Autocycle" means a three-wheeled motorcycle on which the driver and passengers ride in a fully or partially enclosed seating area that is equipped with a roll cage, safety belts for each occupant and antilock brakes and that is designed to be controlled with a steering wheel and pedals.
6. " Aviation fuel" means all flammable liquids composed of a mixture of selected hydrocarbons expressly manufactured and blended for the purpose of effectively and efficiently operating an internal combustion engine for use in an aircraft but does not include fuel for jet or turbine powered aircraft.
7. " Bicycle" means a device, including a racing wheelchair, that is propelled by human power and on which a person may ride and that has either:
8. " Board" means the transportation board.
9. " Bus" means a motor vehicle designed for carrying sixteen or more passengers, including the driver.
10. " Business district" means the territory contiguous to and including a highway if there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes within any six hundred feet along the highway, including hotels, banks or office buildings, railroad stations and public buildings that occupy at least three hundred feet of frontage on one side or three hundred feet collectively on both sides of the highway.
11. " Certificate of ownership" means a paper or an electronic record that is issued in another state or a foreign jurisdiction and that indicates ownership of a vehicle.
12. " Certificate of title" means a paper document or an electronic record that is issued by the department and that indicates ownership of a vehicle.
13. " Combination of vehicles" means a truck or truck tractor and semitrailer and any trailer that it tows but does not include a forklift designed for the purpose of loading or unloading the truck, trailer or semitrailer.
14. " Controlled substance" means a substance so classified under section 102(6) of the controlled substances act (21 United States Code section 802(6)) and includes all substances listed in schedules I through V of 21 Code of Federal Regulations part 1308.
15. " Conviction" means:
16. " County highway" means a public road that is constructed and maintained by a county.
17. " Dealer" means a person who is engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers and who has an established place of business and has paid fees pursuant to section 28-4302.
18. " Department" means the department of transportation acting directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents.
19. " Digital network or software application" has the same meaning prescribed in section 28-9551.
20. " Director" means the director of the department of transportation.
21. " Drive" means to operate or be in actual physical control of a motor vehicle.
22. " Driver" means a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
23. " Driver license" means a license that is issued by a state to an individual and that authorizes the individual to drive a motor vehicle.
24. " Electric personal assistive mobility device" means a self-balancing device with one wheel or two nontandem wheels and an electric propulsion system that limits the maximum speed of the device to fifteen miles per hour or less and that is designed to transport only one person.
25. " Farm" means any lands primarily used for agriculture production.
26. " Farm tractor" means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing implements of husbandry.
27. " Foreign vehicle" means a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer that is brought into this state other than in the ordinary course of business by or through a manufacturer or dealer and that has not been registered in this state.
28. " Golf cart" means a motor vehicle that has not less than three wheels in contact with the ground, that has an unladen weight of less than one thousand eight hundred pounds, that is designed to be and is operated at not more than twenty-five miles per hour and that is designed to carry not more than four persons including the driver.
29. " Hazardous material" means a material, and its mixtures or solutions, that the United States department of transportation determines under 49 Code of Federal Regulations is, or any quantity of a material listed as a select agent or toxin under 42 Code of Federal Regulations part 73 that is, capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety and property if transported in commerce and that is required to be placarded or marked as required by the department's safety rules prescribed pursuant to chapter 14 of this title.
30. " Implement of husbandry" means a vehicle that is designed primarily for agricultural purposes and that is used exclusively in the conduct of agricultural operations, including an implement or vehicle whether self-propelled or otherwise that meets both of the following conditions:
(b) Is only incidentally operated or moved on a highway whether as a trailer or self-propelled unit. For the purposes of this subdivision, " incidentally operated or moved on a highway" means travel between a farm and another part of the same farm, from one farm to another farm or between a farm and a place of repair, supply or storage.
31. " Limousine" means a motor vehicle providing prearranged ground transportation service for an individual passenger, or a group of passengers, that is arranged in advance or is operated on a regular route or between specified points and includes ground transportation under a contract or agreement for services that includes a fixed rate or time and is provided in a motor vehicle with a seating capacity not exceeding fifteen passengers including the driver.
32. " Livery vehicle" means a motor vehicle that:
33. " Local authority" means any county, municipal or other local board or body exercising jurisdiction over highways under the constitution and laws of this state.
34. " Manufacturer" means a person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers.
35. " Moped" means a bicycle that is equipped with a helper motor if the vehicle has a maximum piston displacement of fifty cubic centimeters or less, a brake horsepower of one and one-half or less and a maximum speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less on a flat surface with less than a one percent grade.
36. " Motor driven cycle" means a motorcycle, including every motor scooter, with a motor that produces not more than five horsepower.
37. " Motor vehicle" :
(i) " Motorized skateboard" means a self-propelled device that has a motor, a deck on which a person may ride and at least two tandem wheels in contact with the ground.
(ii) " Motorized wheelchair" means a self-propelled wheelchair that is used by a person for mobility.
38. " Motor vehicle fuel" includes all products that are commonly or commercially known or sold as gasoline, including casinghead gasoline, natural gasoline and all flammable liquids, and that are composed of a mixture of selected hydrocarbons expressly manufactured and blended for the purpose of effectively and efficiently operating internal combustion engines. Motor vehicle fuel does not include inflammable liquids that are specifically manufactured for racing motor vehicles and that are distributed for and used by racing motor vehicles at a racetrack, use fuel as defined in section 28-5601, aviation fuel, fuel for jet or turbine powered aircraft or the mixture created at the interface of two different substances being transported through a pipeline, commonly known as transmix.
39. " Motorcycle" means a motor vehicle that has a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and that is designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground but excludes a tractor and a moped.
40. " Motorized quadricycle" means a self-propelled motor vehicle to which all of the following apply:
41. " Neighborhood electric vehicle" means a self-propelled electrically powered motor vehicle to which all of the following apply:
42. " Nonresident" means a person who is not a resident of this state as defined in section 28-2001.
43. " Off-road recreational motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle that is designed primarily for recreational nonhighway all-terrain travel and that is not operated on a public highway. Off-road recreational motor vehicle does not mean a motor vehicle used for construction, building trade, mining or agricultural purposes.
44. " Operator" means a person who drives a motor vehicle on a highway, who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle on a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle.
45. " Owner" means:
46. " Pedestrian" means any person afoot. A person who uses an electric personal assistive mobility device or a manual or motorized wheelchair is considered a pedestrian unless the manual wheelchair qualifies as a bicycle. For the purposes of this paragraph, " motorized wheelchair" means a self-propelled wheelchair that is used by a person for mobility.
47. " Power sweeper" means an implement, with or without motive power, that is only incidentally operated or moved on a street or highway and that is designed for the removal of debris, dirt, gravel, litter or sand whether by broom, vacuum or regenerative air system from asphaltic concrete or cement concrete surfaces, including parking lots, highways, streets and warehouses, and a vehicle on which the implement is permanently mounted.
48. " Public transit" means the transportation of passengers on scheduled routes by means of a conveyance on an individual passenger fare-paying basis excluding transportation by a sightseeing bus, school bus or taxi or a vehicle not operated on a scheduled route basis.
49. " Reconstructed vehicle" means a vehicle that has been assembled or constructed largely by means of essential parts, new or used, derived from vehicles or makes of vehicles of various names, models and types or that, if originally otherwise constructed, has been materially altered by the removal of essential parts or by the addition or substitution of essential parts, new or used, derived from other vehicles or makes of vehicles. For the purposes of this paragraph, " essential parts" means integral and body parts, the removal, alteration or substitution of which will tend to conceal the identity or substantially alter the appearance of the vehicle.
50. " Residence district" means the territory contiguous to and including a highway not comprising a business district if the property on the highway for a distance of three hundred feet or more is in the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use for business.
51. " Right-of-way" when used within the context of the regulation of the movement of traffic on a highway means the privilege of the immediate use of the highway. Right-of-way when used within the context of the real property on which transportation facilities and appurtenances to the facilities are constructed or maintained means the lands or interest in lands within the right-of-way boundaries.
52. " School bus" means a motor vehicle that is designed for carrying more than ten passengers and that is either:
53. " Semitrailer" means a vehicle that is with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, that is designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and that is constructed so that some part of its weight and that of its load rests on or is carried by another vehicle. For the purposes of this paragraph, " pole trailer" has the same meaning prescribed in section 28-601.
54. " State" means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia.
55. " State highway" means a state route or portion of a state route that is accepted and designated by the board as a state highway and that is maintained by the state.
56. " State route" means a right-of-way whether actually used as a highway or not that is designated by the board as a location for the construction of a state highway.
57. " Street" or " highway" means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way if a part of the way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
58. " Taxi" means a motor vehicle that has a seating capacity not exceeding fifteen passengers, including the driver, that provides passenger services and that:
59. " Title transfer form" means a paper or an electronic form that is prescribed by the department for the purpose of transferring a certificate of title from one owner to another owner.
60. " Traffic survival school" means a school that offers educational sessions to drivers who are required to attend and successfully complete educational sessions pursuant to this title that are designed to improve the safety and habits of drivers and that are approved by the department.
61. " Trailer" means a vehicle that is with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, that is designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and that is constructed so that no part of its weight rests on the towing vehicle. A semitrailer equipped with an auxiliary front axle commonly known as a dolly is deemed to be a trailer. For the purposes of this paragraph, " pole trailer" has the same meaning prescribed in section 28-601.
62. " Transportation network company" has the same meaning prescribed in section 28-9551.
63. " Transportation network company vehicle" has the same meaning prescribed in section 28-9551.
64. " Transportation network service" has the same meaning prescribed in section 28-9551.
65. " Truck" means a motor vehicle designed or used primarily for the carrying of property other than the effects of the driver or passengers and includes a motor vehicle to which has been added a box, a platform or other equipment for such carrying.
66. " Truck tractor" means a motor vehicle that is designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and that is not constructed to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load drawn.
67. " Vehicle" means a device in, on or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn on a public highway, excluding devices moved by human power or used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks.
68. " Vehicle transporter" means either: