Code of Maine Rules › 29 - DEPARTMENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE › 250 - BUREAU OF MOTOR VEHICLES › Bureau of Motor Vehicles › Chapter 153 - THE OPERATION OF MOTOR INTRASTATE CARRIERS OF PASSENGERS FOR-HIRE › Section 250-153-1 - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
In the regulation of motor carriers transporting property
					 for-hire in the State of Maine over the public highways, the following words,
					 terms and phrases shall have the meaning herein defined, unless the term so
					 used is immediately followed by a different definition.
A. The term "Secretary" means the Maine
				  Secretary of State.
B. The term
				  "Bureau" means the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
C. The term "person" means any individual,
				  firm, co-partnership, corporation, association or company, or lessees, trustees
				  or receivers thereof, operating or causing the operation of motor vehicles over
				  the public highways in the business of transporting passengers for
				  hire.
D. The term "intrastate
				  carrier" means any person engaged in the business of transporting passengers
				  for hire by motor vehicles over the public highways in the business of
				  transporting passengers for hire.
E. The term "interstate carrier" means any
				  person transporting passengers for-hire that originates or terminates in this
				  State from or to another State or Country by motor vehicles upon any public
				  highway.
F. The term "application"
				  means original application, renewal application and transfer application filed
				  by any person for an intrastate permit under the provisions of the
				  statute.
G. The term "Equipment
				  Identification List" means the form prescribed and furnished by the Secretary
				  requiring a complete description of each motor vehicle. The description shall
				  include make, serial numbers, unit numbers (if any), name of the owner and the
				  state in which the vehicle is registered. Copies of the Registration
				  Certificate may be substituted for an actual equipment list for those carriers
				  not covered by a blanket insurance policy.
H. The term "docket number" means the serial
				  number of the bus docket assigned by the Secretary to any application
				  received.
I. The term "insurance
				  certificate" means the certification by insurance companies, surety companies
				  or individual sureties to coverage under the provisions of the law on forms
				  approved by the Secretary.
J.
				  "Primary insurance policy" means a policy of liability insurance providing the
				  first dollars of coverage where multiple policies are used to meet the minimum
				  insurance limits.
K. "Excess
				  insurance policy" means a policy of liability that is used to meet the minimum
				  insurance limits and provides coverage for liability in excess of a primary
				  insurance policy or an underlying insurance policy.
L. The term "permit" means the permit under
				  the seal of the Secretary of State issued to intrastate carriers under the
				  provisions of Title 29-A Section 552.
M. The term "public highway" means all public
				  ways, roads, highways including the Maine Turnpike, streets, avenues, alleys,
				  boulevards, parks, squares, ferries, and bridges and approaches thereto within
				  the State.
N. "Motor Vehicle" means
				  any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively on tracks, including
				  motorcycles. "Vehicle" shall include all kinds of conveyances on ways for
				  person or property, including special equipment, except those propelled or
				  drawn by muscular power or used exclusively on tracks.
O. "Bus" means a motor vehicle of any
				  description having a passenger seating capacity, inclusive of driver, of more
				  than 15 passengers.
P.
				  "Limousine/van" means a motor vehicle for hire, with a driver, that is used for
				  the transportation of passengers and that has a seating capacity of at least 5
				  and no more than 14 persons behind the driver.
Q. "Taxicab" means a sedan, station wagon or
				  minivan used for hire, with a driver, that has a seating capacity of less than
				  5 persons behind the driver.
R.
				  "Operator" means any person who drives any motor vehicle.
S. The term "authorized representative" in
				  the context of insurance filings, shall mean any person who has on file with
				  the Secretary a signature card displaying: their name, their business address,
				  their business telephone number, their signature, the name of their company and
				  the effective date.