55-1-102. Definitions of words and phrases generally. —







The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter and chapters 2-6 of this title, for the purpose of this chapter and chapters 2-6 of this title, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this chapter.





[Acts 1951, ch. 70, § 1 (Williams, § 5538.101); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-102.]

 

 

55-1-103. “Autocycle,” “motor bicycle,” “motor vehicle,” “motorcycle” and “vehicle” defined. —







(1) “Autocycle” means an enclosed motorcycle that is equipped with safety belts, rollbar, windshield, wipers, steering wheel, and equipment otherwise required on a motorcycle, and which has not more than three (3) wheels in contact with the roadway at any one (1) time;





(2) “Motor bicycle” means a motorized bicycle as defined in § 55-8-101;





(3) “Motor vehicle” means every vehicle that is self-propelled, excluding motorized bicycles and every vehicle that is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires. “Motor vehicle” means any low speed vehicle, or medium speed vehicle as defined in this section. “Motor vehicle” means any mobile home or house trailer as defined in § 55-1-105;





(4) “Motorcycle” means every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels in contact with the ground, including a vehicle that is fully enclosed, has three (3) wheels in contact with the ground, weighs less than one thousand five hundred pounds (1,500 lbs.), and has the capacity to maintain posted highway speed limits, excluding a tractor or motorized bicycle; and





(5) “Vehicle” and “freight motor vehicle” means every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.





[Acts 1951, ch. 70, § 2 (Williams, § 5538.102); Acts 1963, ch. 143, § 1; 1979, ch. 247, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-103; Acts 1981, ch. 448, § 1; 1985, ch. 283, § 1; 1986, ch. 804, § 1; 2000, ch. 606, § 2; 2002, ch. 747, § 1; 2008, ch. 959, § 1.]

 

And things just keep going. I guess

 

 

55-1-104. “Farm tractor,” “motor home,” “truck” and “truck tractor” defined. —







(1) “Farm tractor” means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement, for drawing plows, mowing machines, and other implements of husbandry;





(2) “Motor home” means every motor vehicle which is designed, constructed (either originally by the manufacturer or rebuilt by another) and equipped as a dwelling place, living abode or sleeping place;





(3) “Truck” means every motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property; and





(4) “Truck tractor” means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.





[Acts 1951, ch. 70, § 3 (Williams, § 5538.103); 1974, ch. 525, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-104.]

 

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55-1-105. “Manufactured home,” “Mobile home or house trailer,” “pole trailer,” “semitrailer” and “trailer” defined. —







(1) “Manufactured home” means any structure, transportable in one (1) or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight (8) or more body-feet in width or forty (40) or more body-feet in length, or when erected on site, is three hundred twenty (320) or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems contained therein. The term includes any structure that meets all of the requirements of this subdivision (1) except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the United States secretary of housing and urban development and complies with the standards established by title 42 of the United States Code. As defined in this subdivision (1), “manufactured home” also has the same meaning as “mobile home”, as defined in title 68, chapter 126, and “manufactured home”, as defined in § 47-9-102;





(2) “Mobile home or house trailer” means any vehicle or conveyance, not self-propelled, designed for travel upon the public highways, and designed for use as a residence, office, apartment, storehouse, warehouse, or any other similar purpose. “Mobile home or house trailer” shall include any “manufactured home” as defined in subdivision (5);





(3) “Pole trailer” means 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;





(4) “Semitrailer” means every vehicle without motive power and not a motor vehicle as defined in this section, other than a pole trailer, 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 another vehicle; and





(5) “Trailer” means every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.





[Acts 1951, ch. 70, § 4 (Williams, § 5538.104); Acts 1963, ch. 143, § 2; 1970, ch. 433, § 1; 1971, ch. 274, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-105; 2003, ch. 76, §§ 1, 2.]

 

55-1-106. “Essential parts,” “reconstructed vehicle” and “specially constructed vehicle” defined. —







(1) “Essential parts” means all integral and body parts of a vehicle of a type required to be registered hereunder, the removal, alteration, or substitution of which would tend to conceal the identity of the vehicle or substantially alter its appearance, model, type, or mode of operation;





(2) “Reconstructed vehicle” means every vehicle of a type required to be registered hereunder materially altered from its original construction by the removal, addition, or substitution of essential parts, new or used; and





(3) “Specially constructed vehicle” means every vehicle of a type required to be registered hereunder not originally constructed under a distinctive name, make, model, or type by a generally recognized manufacturer of vehicles and not materially altered from its original construction.





[Acts 1951, ch. 70, § 5 (Williams, § 5538.105); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-106.]

 

55-1-107. “Foreign vehicle” defined. —







“Foreign vehicle” means every vehicle of a type required to be registered hereunder brought into this state from another state, territory, or country, other than in the ordinary course of business by or through a manufacturer or dealer, and not registered in this state.





[Acts 1951, ch. 70, § 6 (Williams, § 5538.106); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-107.]

 

55-1-108. “Implement of husbandry” defined. —







“Implement of husbandry” means every vehicle which is designed for agricultural purposes and exclusively used by the owner thereof in the conduct of the owner's agricultural operations, but does not include any truck, truck-tractor or farm truck whenever such vehicle is driven upon a highway of this state except as provided in § 55-3-101(a)(2).





[Acts 1951, ch. 70, § 7 (Williams, § 5538.107); Acts 1972, ch. 518, § 1; T.C.A., § 59-108.]

 

I want to be a producer

 

55-1-109. “Special mobile equipment” defined. —







“Special 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 or street, including, but not limited to: ditch-digging apparatus and road construction and 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, scrapers, track mounted power shovels and drag lines. “Special mobile equipment” does not include dump trucks or truck mounted transit mixers, earth movers, cranes, shovels, well-boring apparatus and feed mills, such as may be fixed load vehicles or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached, even though the movement over the streets and highways may be only incidental to the operation of such vehicle.





[Acts 1951, ch. 70, § 8 (Williams, § 5538.108); Acts 1957, ch. 244, § 2; 1972, ch. 518, § 2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-109.]

 

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Lorine Niedecker
[Grandfather advised me]