§ 31-3.2-1 - Definitions. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 31-3.2-1

   § 31-3.2-1  Definitions. – For the purpose of this chapter, the terms defined in this section have thefollowing meanings ascribed to them:

   (1) "Dealer" means a person, partnership, or corporationengaged in the business of selling snowmobiles or recreational vehicles atwholesale or retail.

   (2) "Director" means the director of the department ofenvironmental management acting directly or through his or her authorized agent.

   (3) "Manufacturer" means a person, partnership or corporationengaged in the business of manufacturing snowmobiles or recreational vehicles.

   (4) "Operate" means to ride in, on, and control the operationof a snowmobile or recreational vehicle.

   (5) "Operator" means every person who operates or is inactual physical control of a snowmobile or recreational vehicle.

   (6) "Owner" means a person, other than a lienholder, havingthe property in or title to a snowmobile or to a recreational vehicle orentitled to the use or possession of one.

   (7) "Person" includes an individual, partnership,corporation, the state and its agencies and subdivisions, and any body ofpersons, whether incorporated or not.

   (8) "Recreational vehicle" means a motor vehicle includingminibikes designed to travel over unimproved terrain and which has beendetermined by the division of motor vehicles as unsuitable for operation on thepublic way and not eligible for registration for such use. This shall not beconstrued to include golf mobiles or golf carts, riding lawn mowers, or gardentractors, which are not registered as farm vehicles, but shall include anythree (3) wheel driven vehicle and any other four (4) wheel driven vehicle,regardless of type or design, including all classes of all-terrain vehicles.

   (9) "Register" means the act of assigning a registrationnumber of a snowmobile or recreational vehicle.

   (10) "Roadway" means that portion of a highway improved,designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.

   (11) "Snowmobile" means a motor vehicle designed to travelover ice or snow supported in whole or in part by skis, belts, cleats, orlow-pressure tires.