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186.650 Definitions for KRS 186.650 to 186.700.
As used in KRS 186.650 to 186.700:
(1) A "trailer" means any vehicle designed for carrying persons or property and
being drawn by a motor vehicle being so constructed that no part of its weight
rests upon the towing vehicle.
(2) "Semitrailer" means any vehicle designed for carrying persons or property and
for being drawn by a motor vehicle and is so constructed that some part of its
weight and some part of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle,
except that:
(a) "Semitrailer" shall not include any vehicle designed for carrying persons
or property and being drawn by a motor vehicle registered according to
the provisions of KRS 186.050(4)(a) and used by a farmer only for
transporting persons, food, provender, feed, machinery, livestock,
material and supplies necessary for his farming operation, and the
products grown on his farm.
(3) "Manufactured home" means a structure, transportable in one (1) or more
sections, which:
(a) Is eight (8) body feet or more in width and forty (40) body feet or more in
length when in the traveling mode;
(b) Has three hundred twenty (320) or more square feet when erected on
site;
(c) Is built on a permanent chassis;
(d) Is designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent
foundation, when connected to the required utilities;
(e) Includes plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems; and
(f) May be used as a place of residence, business, profession, or trade by
the owner, lessee or their assigns, and may consist of one (1) or more
units that can be attached or joined together to comprise an integral unit
or condominium structure.
(4) "Recreational vehicle" means a vehicular type unit primarily designed as
temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, which either
has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle. The
basic entities are: travel trailer, camping trailer, truck camper, and motor home;
(a) A travel trailer is a vehicular unit, mounted on wheels, designed to
provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use.
It shall be a size and weight which shall not require special highway
movement permits when drawn by a motorized vehicle. It shall have a
living area of less than two hundred twenty (220) square feet, excluding
built-in equipment (such as wardrobes, closets, cabinets, kitchen units, or
fixtures) and bath and toilet rooms. The exterior area of a travel trailer
shall be less than three hundred twenty (320) square feet.
(b) A camping trailer is a vehicular portable unit mounted on wheels and
constructed with collapsible partial side walls which fold for towing by
another vehicle and unfold at the camp site to provide temporary living
quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use.
(c)
(5)
A truck camper is a portable unit constructed to provide temporary living
quarters for recreational, travel, or camping use, consisting of a roof, floor,
and sides, designed to be loaded onto and unloaded from the bed of a
pick-up truck.
(d) A motor home is a vehicular unit designed to provide temporary living
quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use built on or permanently
attached to, a self-propelled motor vehicle chassis or on a chassis cab or
van which is an integral part of the completed vehicle.
"Cabinet" means the Transportation Cabinet.
Effective:July 15, 1994
History: Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 42, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1994. -Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 395, sec. 10, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended
1974 Ky. Acts ch. 90, sec. 3; and ch. 368, sec. 3. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts
ch. 139, sec. 14, effective January 1, 1967; and ch. 255, sec. 172. -- Amended
1962 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 18, effective January 1, 1963. -- Created 1956 (2nd
Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 6, sec. 1.
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