2018 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 31 - Motor and Other vehicles
Chapter 31-1 Definitions and General Code Provisions
Section 31-1-9 Mobile equipment.
§ 31-1-9. Mobile equipment.
"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: ditch digging apparatus, well boring apparatus, and road construction or 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, earth moving carry-alls and scrapers, power shovels and drag lines, and self-propelled cranes and earth moving equipment. The term does not include house trailers, dump trucks, truck mounted transit mixers, cranes, or shovels, or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1950, ch. 2595, art. 1, § 8; G.L. 1956, § 31-1-9; P.L. 1959, ch. 123, § 1.)
