lessee or (b) a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then the conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor is deemed the owner for the purpose of this chapter. (22) ‘Nonresident’ means every person who is not a resident of this State. Reserved. (23) ‘Dealer’ or ‘motor vehicle dealer’ means both ‘dealer’ and ‘wholesaler’ as defined in Chapter 15 of this title. (24) [Deleted] Reserved. (25) ‘Street’ or ‘highway’ means the entire width between boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part of it is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel. (26) ‘Odometer’ means an instrument for measuring and recording the actual distance a motor vehicle travels while in operation; it does not include an auxiliary instrument designed to be reset by the operator of the motor vehicle for the purpose of recording the distance traveled on trips. (27) ‘Odometer reading’ means actual cumulative distance traveled disclosed on the odometer. (28) ‘Odometer disclosure statement’ means a statement, as prescribed by item (4) of Section 563240, certified by the owner of the motor vehicle to the transferee or to the Department of Motor Vehicles as to the odometer reading. (29) ‘Moped’ means every cycle with pedals to permit propulsion by human power and with a motor of not more than fifty cubic centimeters which produces not to exceed one and onehalf brake horsepower and which is not capable of propelling the vehicle at a speed in excess of twentyfive miles per hour on level ground. If an internal combustion engine is used, the moped must have a power drive system that functions directly or automatically without clutching or shifting by the operator after the drive system is engaged. Reserved. (30) ‘Automotive threewheel vehicle’ means every motor vehicle having no more than three permanent functional wheels in contact with the ground, having a bench seat for the use of the operator, and having an automotive type steering device, but excluding a tractor or motorcycle threewheel vehicle. (31) ‘Motorcycle threewheel vehicle’ means every motor vehicle having no more than three permanent functional wheels in contact with the ground to include motorcycles with detachable side cars, having a saddle type seat for the operator, and having handlebars or a motorcycle type steering device, but excluding a tractor or automotive threewheel vehicle. Reserved.”
(31) ‘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: ditchdigging apparatus, wellboring apparatus, and road construction and maintenance machinery, such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck tractors, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earthmoving carryalls and scrapers, power shovels and draglines, and selfpropelled cranes and earthmoving equipment. The term does not include house trailers, dump trucks, truckmounted transit mixers, cranes, or shovels, or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached. (32) ‘Specifically constructed vehicle’ means every vehicle of a type required to be registered under this title 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. (33) ‘Trackless trolley coach’ means every motor vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires but not operated upon rails. (34) ‘Trailer’ means every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and constructed so that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle. (35) ‘Transporter’ means every person engaged in the business of delivering vehicles of a type required to be registered under this title from a manufacturing, assembling, or distributing plant to dealers or sales agents of a manufacturer. (36) ‘Truck’ means every motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. (37) ‘Truck tractor’ means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not constructed to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load drawn. (38) ‘Vehicle’ means every device in, upon, or by which a person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. Reserved. (39) ‘Mobile home’ means every vehicle which is designed, constructed, and equipped principally as a permanent dwelling place and is equipped to be moved on streets and highways, but which exceeds the size limitations prescribed in Section 563710 and which