New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 20 - ENFORCEMENT SERVICE › Subchapter 28 - INSPECTION OF NEW MOTOR VEHICLES AND NEW HEAVY-DUTY DIESEL TRUCKS › Section 13:20-28.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"California Air Resources Board" or "CARB" means the agency of the State of California established and empowered to regulate sources of air pollution, including motor vehicles, pursuant to the California Health and Safety Code, sections 39500 et seq.
"Certified configuration" means a heavy-duty diesel engine design certified by either the EPA or CARB as meeting the applicable emission standards for heavy-duty diesel engines manufactured for a given model year.
"Chief Administrator" means the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.
"Diesel engine" means a compression ignition type of internal combustion engine.
"Diesel-powered" means utilizing a diesel engine.
"Element of design" means any part or system on a motor vehicle or a motor vehicle engine pertaining to the vehicle's or engine's certified configuration.
"Emission control apparatus" means any device utilized by the vehicle manufacturer and/or the engine manufacturer to control the release of any regulated emission, including any associated component that monitors the function and maintenance of such a device. This term shall also mean emission control apparatus or engine systems that have been retrofitted or upgraded in accordance with EPA or CARB requirements to control the release of any regulated emission, including any associated component that monitors the function and maintenance of such apparatus or system.
"EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"Gross vehicle weight rating" or "GVWR" means the value specified by the manufacturer as the maximum loaded weight of a single or combination (articulated) vehicle.
"Jitney" means an autobus as defined in 48:16-23 with a carrying capacity of not more than 13 passengers, operated under municipal consent upon a route established wholly within the limits of a single municipality or with a carrying capacity of not more than 20 passengers operated under municipal consent upon a route established wholly within the limits of not more than four contiguous municipalities within any county of the fifth or sixth class, which route in either case does not, in whole or in part, parallel upon the same street the line of any street railway or traction railway or any other autobus route.
"Limousine" means any motor vehicle that is issued special registration plates bearing the word "limousine" pursuant to 39:3-19.5 other than motor vehicles that are subject to inspection by the Motor Vehicle Commission's Commercial Bus Inspection and Investigation Unit.
"Model year" means the engine manufacturer's annual production period, consistent with 40 CFR 86.082, which includes January 1 of such calendar year, provided, that if the manufacturer has no annual production period, this term shall mean a calendar year. The manufacturer's annual production period shall include January 1 of the calendar year for which it is designated and shall not include a January 1 of any other calendar year. Thus, the maximum duration of a model year is one calendar year plus 364 days (or 365 days if the model year includes February 29 in a leap year).
"Motor Vehicle Commission" or "Commission" means the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission established by section 4 of P. L. , c. 13 (39:2A-4 ).
"New heavy-duty diesel truck" means any new diesel-powered motor vehicle with a GVWR of 18,000 or more pounds that is designed or used for the transporting of property on any public road, street, or highway or any public or quasi-public property in this State. For purposes of this subchapter, heavy-duty diesel truck shall not mean a heavy-duty diesel truck owned and operated by a county, municipality, fire district, or duly incorporated nonprofit organization and used for first aid, emergency, ambulance, rescue, or firefighting purposes.
"New motor vehicle" means every new motor vehicle, regardless of registration class, except omnibuses that are subject to inspection by the Motor Vehicle Commission's Commercial Bus Inspection and Investigation Unit, school buses, diesel trucks having a GVWR from 8,501 up to, and including, 17,999 pounds, diesel truck tractors as defined in N.J.S.A. 39:1-1, and vehicles that run upon rails or tracks.
"New motor vehicle dealer" or "new motorcycle dealer" means a dealer licensed pursuant to 39:10-19 to sell new motor vehicles or new motorcycles, its employees and/or agents.
"Pre-delivery checklist" means a list of items and procedures which a new motor vehicle dealer, new motorcycle dealer, or motor vehicle leasing company is required or recommended by a manufacturer to check or follow prior to delivery of a new motor vehicle to a purchaser or lessee.
"Taxicab" means an autocab as defined in 48:16-1 engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, which is held out, announced or advertised to operate or run or which is operated or run over any of the streets or public highways of this State and particularly accepts and discharges such persons as may offer themselves for transportation from points or places to points or places within or without the State.
"Ultimate purchaser" means any person, other than a motor vehicle dealer purchasing in its capacity as a motor vehicle dealer, who in good faith purchases or leases a new motor vehicle or new heavy-duty diesel truck from a new motor vehicle dealer or leases a new motor vehicle or new heavy-duty diesel truck from a motor vehicle leasing company.