Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Subtitle 15 - MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION-VEHICLE REGISTRATION › Chapter 11.15.22 - Apportioned Registration of Fleet Vehicles › Section 11.15.22.04 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. The following
				words and terms have the following meanings, unless the context clearly
				indicates otherwise.
B. Terms
				Defined.
(1) "Administration" means the Motor
				Vehicle Administration.
(2)
				"Agent-lessor" means a service representative who furnishes facilities and
				services including sales, warehousing, motorized equipment and drivers under
				contract or other arrangement to a carrier for transportation of property by a
				household goods carrier.
(3)
				"Applicant" means a person, firm, or corporation in whose name an application
				to apportion the registrations of a fleet of vehicles is filed.
(4) "Apportionable fee" means any
				periodically recurring fee required for licensing or registering vehicles, such
				as, but not limited to:
(a) Registration fees;
				and
(b) License or weight
				fees.
(5) "Apportionable
				vehicle" means any vehicle, except recreational vehicles, vehicles displaying
				restricted plates, city pickup and delivery vehicles, buses used in
				transportation of chartered parties, and government-owned vehicles, used or
				intended for use in two or more member jurisdictions for the transportation of
				persons for hire or designed, used, or maintained primarily for the
				transportation of property:
(a) Having a gross
				vehicle weight in excess of 26,000 pounds;
(b) Having three or more axles, regardless of
				weight; or
(c) If used in
				combination, with the gross weight of a combination exceeding 26,000
				pounds.
(6) "Audit" means
				the examination of a registrant's records, including source documents, to
				verify the distances reported in the registrant's application for apportioned
				registration and evaluate the accuracy of the registrant's distance-accounting
				system for its fleet. Such an examination may be of multiple fleets for
				multiple years
(7) "Auxiliary axle"
				means an auxiliary under carriage assembly with a fifth wheel and tow bar used
				to convert a semi-trailer to a full trailer.
(8) "Average per-vehicle distance" means the
				average per-vehicle distance in each member jurisdiction determined by the
				total actual distances reported during the previous registration year as having
				been operated by all Maryland carriers.
(9) "Base jurisdiction" means for the purpose
				of fleet registration, the jurisdiction where:
(a) The registrant has an established place
				of business;
(b) Mileage is accrued
				by the fleet; and
(c) Operational
				records of the fleet are maintained or can be made available.
(10) "Base plate" means the
				registration plate, or plates, issued by the base jurisdiction, identified by
				having the word "APPORTIONED" and the base jurisdiction's name on the
				plate.
(11) "Bilateral agreement"
				means a registration reciprocity agreement between Maryland and another
				jurisdiction providing the payment of registration fees on the basis of fleet
				miles operated in each jurisdiction.
(12) "Cab card" means a registration card
				issued by the base jurisdiction for a vehicle of an apportioned fleet
				containing:
(a) The make and VIN of the
				vehicle;
(b) The base plate
				number,
(c) The jurisdictions in
				which the vehicle is registered;
(d) The registered gross weight for each
				jurisdiction;
(e) Any other
				information deemed necessary.
(13) "Carrier" means an individual,
				partnership, or corporation engaged in the business of transporting goods or
				persons.
(14) "Credentials" means a
				cab card and apportioned plate issued for a vehicle registered by a
				jurisdiction which is a party to an agreement.
(15) "Established place of business" means a
				physical structure owned or leased by a fleet registrant designated by a street
				and number or road location, which is open during normal business hours and in
				which are located:
(a) A telephone publicly
				listed in the name of the fleet registrant;
(b) A person conducting the fleet
				registrant's business; and
(c) The
				operational records of the fleet unless the records can be made
				available.
(16)
				"Equipment number" means the unit number or equipment number assigned by the
				applicant. Each piece or unit of equipment must have a specific International
				Registration Plan (IRP) identifier.
(17) "Fleet" means one or more apportionable
				vehicles.
(18) "Household goods"
				means:
(a) Personal effects and property used
				or to be used in a dwelling when the household goods are part of the equipment
				or supply of the dwelling;
(b)
				Furniture, fixtures, equipment, and the property of stores, offices, museums,
				institutions, hospitals, or other establishments, when a part of the stock,
				equipment, or supply of the stores, offices, museums, institutions, hospitals,
				or other establishments; and
(c)
				Articles including objects of art, displays, and exhibits which because of
				their unusual nature or value require the specialized handling and equipment
				usually employed in moving household goods.
(19) "Hunter's permit" means a temporary
				vehicle registration permit issued to an owner-operator, not operating as a
				lessor, for a registered gross weight not exceeding the empty weight of the
				vehicle.
(20) "In-jurisdiction
				miles" means the total number of miles operated by a fleet of proportionally
				registered vehicles in a jurisdiction during the preceding year. Mileage of
				Maryland registered vehicles accrued in jurisdictions which are not member
				jurisdictions shall be counted as in-jurisdiction miles operated in
				Maryland.
(21) "International Registration Plan (IRP)" means a
				registration reciprocity agreement among states of the United States, the
				District of Columbia, and provinces of Canada providing for the payment of
				apportionable fees on the basis of fleet miles operated in each
				jurisdiction.
(22) "Interstate
				operations" means vehicle movement between or through two or more
				jurisdictions.
(23) "Intrastate
				operations" means vehicle movement from one point within a jurisdiction to
				another point within the same jurisdiction.
(24) "IVMR" means
				individual vehicle mileage record.
(25) "Jurisdiction" means:
(a) A state, territory or possession of the
				United States;
(b) The District of
				Columbia;
(c) A state or province
				of a country.
(26)
				"Lease" means a written document vesting exclusive possession and control of a
				vehicle owned by another.
(27)
				"Lessor" means a person, firm, or corporation which under the terms of a lease,
				grants the legal right of possession and control of a vehicle to another
				person, firm, or corporation (the lessee).
(28) "Long-term lease" means a lease having a
				term of 30 days or more.
(29)
				"Member jurisdiction" means a jurisdiction which is a party to the
				International Registration Plan.
(30) "Negotiable title" means a title issued
				by a jurisdiction which documents ownership of a vehicle and can be used to
				transfer ownership.
(31)
				"Operational records" means documents supporting in-jurisdiction miles traveled
				in each jurisdiction and total miles traveled, such as fuel reports, trip
				sheets, and logs.
(32)
				"Owner-operator" means an equipment lessor who leases his vehicular equipment
				with driver to a carrier pursuant to Interstate Commerce Commission
				regulations, 49 CFR 1057 or similar regulations of a jurisdiction's regulatory
				body.
(33) "Power unit" means a
				vehicle which is self propelled by power other than muscular power.
(34) "Preceding year" means the 12-month
				period after June 30 of one year and before July 1 of the following year, which
				immediately precedes the registration or license year for which proportional
				registration is sought.
(35)
				"Reciprocity" means exemption from further registration by any member
				jurisdiction of an apportionable vehicle registered under an
				agreement.
(36) "Reciprocity
				agreement" means an agreement, arrangement, or understanding governing the
				reciprocal grant of rights or privileges, or both, to vehicles, which are based
				in and properly registered under the applicable laws of the jurisdictions which
				are parties to the agreement, arrangement, or understanding.
(37) "Registrant" means a person, firm, or
				corporation in whose name an apportioned vehicle is registered.
(38) "Registration year" means the 12-month
				period during which the registration dates issued by the base jurisdiction are
				valid according to the laws of the base jurisdiction.
(39) "Rental fleet" means five or more
				vehicles which are rented or offered for rental without drivers and which are
				designated by a rental owner as a rental fleet.
(40) "Rental owner" means an owner
				principally engaged in renting rental fleets to others or offering for rental
				the vehicles of the fleets without drivers.
(41) "Rental vehicle" means a vehicle of a
				rental fleet.
(42) "Renting or
				leasing" means the giving of possession and control of a vehicle for valuable
				consideration for a specified period of time.
(43) "Restricted plate" means a registration
				plate which is restricted as to time, less than a full registration year,
				geographic area, mileage or commodities or persons which may be hauled.
				Example: farm truck plate, dealer plate.
(44) "Road tractor (mobile home toter)" means
				every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles and not so
				constructed as to carry any load on it either independently or any part of the
				weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
(45) "Short term lease" means a lease having
				a term of less than 30 days.
(46)
				"Temporary authority" means a temporary registration authorizing the operation
				of a Maryland vehicle for 45 days while application for a change in fleet
				registration is being processed by the Administration.
(47) "Total miles" means the total number of
				miles operated by a fleet of proportionally registered vehicles in all
				jurisdictions during the preceding year.
(48) "Tractor" means a 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 vehicles and load so
				drawn.
(49) "Trip permit" means a
				temporary permit issued by a jurisdiction instead of regular apportioned
				registration.
(50) "Truck" means
				every motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily for the
				transportation of property.
(51)
				"Truck tractor" means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing
				other vehicles but so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the
				weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
(52) "Vehicle-tracking system" means an
				electronic system that monitors the exact location, 24 hours a day, of any
				moving vehicle using the Global Positioning System (GPS) or another type of
				automatic vehicle location technology.
(53) "VIN" means vehicle identification
				number.