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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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