V.I. Code tit. 20, § 203 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 20 - Highways and Motor Vehicles|Part II - Motor Vehicles|Chapter 32 - Certificates of Title|Subchapter I - General Provisions|§ 203. Definitions

 As used in this chapter: “Bureau” means the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. “Identifying number” means the vehicle identification number assigned by the manufacturer or by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for the purpose of identifying the vehicle. The term shall include any numbers or letters assigned by the manufacturer for the purpose of identifying a part of a vehicle and any such number placed on a part in accordance with this chapter or regulations of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles for the purpose of identifying it. “Implement of husbandry” means every vehicle designed or adapted and used exclusively for agricultural operations and only incidentally operated or moved upon the highways. “Junk vehicle” means any vehicle which is incapable of operation or use on the highways and which has not resale value, except as a source of parts or scrap. “Lienholder” means a person holding a security interest in a vehicle. “Mail” means to deposit in the United States mail properly addressed and with postage prepaid. “Manufacturer” means every person engaged in the business of constructing or assembling vehicles of a type required to be registered hereunder at an established place of business in this Territory. “Manufacturer's statement or origin” means the original written instrument or document required to be executed and delivered by the manufacturer to his agent or dealer, or a person purchasing direct from the manufacturer, certifying the origin of the vehicle. “Odometer” means an instrument for measuring and recording the actual distance a motor vehicle travels while in operation, other than an auxiliary odometer designed to be reset by the operator of the motor vehicle for the purpose of recording mileage on trips. “Owner” means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to a vehicle. The term includes a person entitled to the use and possession of a vehicle subject to a security interest in another person, but excludes a lessee under a lease not intended as security. “Pole trailer” means every vehicle without motive 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 poles, pipes or structural members capable, generally, of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections. “Rebuilt salvage vehicle” means any salvage vehicle which has been rebuilt and inspected for the purpose of registration and title. “Reconstructed vehicle” means every vehicle of a type required to be registered hereunder materially altered from its original construction by the removal, addition or substitution of essential parts, new or used. “Salvage vehicle” means any vehicle which is damaged by collision, fire, flood, wind, accident, trespass, or other occurrence to the extent that the cost of repairing the vehicle for legal operation on the highway exceeds its fair market value immediately prior to damage. “Salvage vehicle purchaser” or “junk vehicle purchaser” means any person other than an insurer who purchases or otherwise obtains possession of a salvage vehicle or a junk vehicle. “Security agreement” means a written agreement which reserves or creates a security interest. “Security interest” means an interest in a vehicle reserved or created by agreement and which secures payment or performance of an obligation. The term includes the interest of a lessor under a lessee intended as security. A security interest is “perfected” when it is valid against third parties generally, subject only to specific statutory exceptions. “Special mobile equipment” means every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including but not limited to: ditch digging apparatus, street sweepers, golf carts, well boring apparatus and road construction and maintenance machinery such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck tractors, ditchers, levelling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth moving carry-alls and scrapers, power shovels and drag lines, and self-propelled cranes and earth moving equipment. The term does not include house trailers, dump trucks, truck mounted transit mixers, cranes or shovels, or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached. “Specially constructed vehicle” means every vehicle of a type required to be registered hereunder not originally constructed under a distinctive name, make, model, or type by a generally recognized manufacturer of vehicles and not materially altered from its original construction. “Vehicle identification number” means the vehicle identification number or any other numbers, letters, symbols, data, or combination thereof placed on a vehicle or vehicle part for purposes of identification by the manufacturer or at the direction of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or at the direction of proper authorities in accordance with the laws of the United States, another state, territory or country. The term includes any component part, engine, replacement, assigned, or transmission identification number, and a vehicle identification number derivative.