2005 Idaho Code - 49-121 — DEFINITIONS -- T

                                  TITLE  49
                                MOTOR VEHICLES
                                  CHAPTER 1
                                 DEFINITIONS
    49-121.  DEFINITIONS -- T.
    (1)  "Temporary supplemental lot" means a location other than the
principal place of business, or supplemental lot within the same or adjacent
county as the principal place of business, where a licensed dealer may secure
a license to conduct the business and is licensed for a period of time not to
exceed ten (10) days for a specific purpose such as auto shows, auctions,
shopping center promotions, tent sales, etc. Temporary supplemental lots shall
meet all local zoning and building codes for the type of business being
conducted. The requirements for a principal place of business shall not be
applicable to temporary supplemental lot locations. The adjacent county
restriction shall not apply if the dealer holds the franchise for the products
to be displayed or sold and has approval from a manufacturer for the location
where the proposed temporary supplemental lot license will be issued by the
department. Nonfranchised dealers shall be permitted to temporarily display or
sell their products within a one hundred seventy-five (175) mile radius of
their principal place of business, upon approval by the department.
    (2)  "Tires" means:
    (a)  Metal. Every tire the surface of which in contact with the highway is
    wholly or partly of metal or other hard, nonresilient material.
    (b)  Pneumatic. Every tire in which compressed air is designed to support
    the load.
    (c)  Snow tire. Every rubber tire with tread design or material embedded
    in the tire to improve winter traction except studded tires.
    (d)  Solid rubber. Every tire of rubber or other resilient material which
    does not depend upon compressed air for the support of the load.
    (e)  Studded tire. Every tire with built-in lugs of tungsten carbide or
    other  suitable material designed to contact the road surface for improved
    winter traction.
    (3)  "Traffic" means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles,
streetcars and other conveyances either singly or together while using any
highway for purposes of travel.
    (4)  "Traffic lane" or "lane of travel" means that portion of the roadway
for movement of a single line of vehicles.
    (5)  "Traffic-control device" means any device, whether manually,
electrically or mechanically operated, placed or erected by authority of a
public body or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating,
warning or guiding traffic.
    (6)  "Trailer" means:
    (a)  General. Every vehicle without motive power designed for carrying
    persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle.
    (b)  Fifth-wheel trailer. A vehicular unit equipped in the same manner as
    a travel trailer but constructed with a raised forward section that allows
    a bi-level floor plan. This style is designed to be towed by a vehicle
    equipped with a device known as a fifth-wheel hitch, which is typically
    installed in the bed of a pickup truck.
    (c)  Fold down camping trailer. 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 campsite to provide temporary
    living quarters, for recreational, camping or travel use.
    (d)  Park trailer. A trailer designed to be towed by a motorized vehicle,
    and of such size and weight as not to require a special highway movement
    permit. It is designed for seasonal or temporary living quarters and may
    be connected to utilities necessary for operation of installed fixtures
    and appliances. It is built on a single permanent chassis and constructed
    to permit set up by persons without special skills.
    (e)  Pole trailer. Every vehicle without motive power designed to be drawn
    by another vehicle and attached to the towing vehicle by means of a reach
    or pole or by being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle, and
    ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly shaped loads such as
    poles, pipes, or structural members capable, generally, of sustaining
    themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
    (f)  Semitrailer. Every vehicle without motive power, designed for
    carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so
    constructed that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon
    or is carried by the towing vehicle.
    (g)  Travel trailer. A vehicular unit, mounted on wheels designed to
    provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel or
    emergency use and of such size or weight as not to require special highway
    movement permits when towed by a motorized vehicle.
    (h)  Utility trailer. (See "Utility Trailer," section 49-122, Idaho Code)
    (7)  "Transitional ownership document" means a document used to perfect a
lien against creditors or subsequent purchasers when the primary ownership
document is not available and the selling dealer, new security interest holder
or their agent, to the best of their knowledge, will not have possession of
the primary ownership document, within twenty (20) days, and contains all of
the following:
    (a)  The date of sale or if no sale is involved, the date the contract or
    security agreement being perfected was signed;
    (b)  The name and address of each owner of the vehicle;
    (c)  The name and address of each security interest holder;
    (d)  If there are multiple security interest holders, the priorities of
    interest if the security interest holders do not jointly hold a single
    security interest;
    (e)  The vehicle identification number;
    (f)  The name of the security interest holder or person who submits the
    transitional ownership document for the security interest holder; and
    (g)  Any other information the department may require for its records.
    (8)  "Transportation," for the purposes of chapter 22, title 49, Idaho
Code, means the movement of any regulated quantity of hazardous material or
hazardous waste within, through, or to any destination in this state upon the
highways of this state.
    (9)  "Transporter" means every person engaged in the business of
delivering vehicles of a type required to be registered from a manufacturing,
assembling or distributing plant to dealers or sales agents of a manufacturer,
except in chapter 22, title 49, Idaho Code, where it means any person who
transports a hazardous material or hazardous waste within, through, or to any
destination upon the highways of this state.
    (10) "Truck" means:
    (a)  Refuse/sanitation. Any vehicle designed and used solely for the
    purpose of transporting refuse.
    (b)  General. Every motor vehicle exceeding eight thousand (8,000) pounds
    gross weight designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation
    of property.
    (c)  Pickup truck. Every motor vehicle eight thousand (8,000) pounds gross
    weight or less which is designed, used or maintained primarily for the
    transportation of property.
    (d)  Truck camper. 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 pickup truck.
    (e)  Truck tractor. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for
    drawing other vehicles but not so constructed as to carry a load other
    than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
    (11) "True mileage driven" means the mileage of the vehicle as registered
by the odometer within the manufacturer's designed tolerance.