Section 17 AAC 38.900 - DefinitionsIn this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise,
(1) "bus" means a motor vehicle designed primarily for and having the capacity to transport 10 or more people including the driver;(2) "commissioner" means the commissioner of transportation and public facilities;(3) "department" means the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities;(4) "gross vehicle weight" means the total weight of a vehicle, or a combination of vehicles, including load and any accumulated snow, ice, mud, rocks, or dirt;(5) "motor vehicle" means a self-propelled fuel-powered vehicle designed for operation on a highway;(6) "passenger vehicle" means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily to transport less than 10 people including the driver;(7) "recreational vehicle" means a vehicle equipped with cooking facilities;(8) "toll" means a charge or other user fee required to be paid by the public in exchange for the privilege of traveling on, over, or through a highway, road, bridge, tunnel, crossing, or causeway;(9) "traffic control device" means a light, barrier, arrow, flag, gate, pavement marking, sign, or other indicator used by the department or the department's contractor to designate a traffic pattern or road use restriction;(10) "trailer" means a vehicle, with or without motive power, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle; "trailer" includes semi-trailers, pole trailers, and towed vehicles;(11) "truck" means a motor vehicle, including a cargo van or a pickup truck regardless of the number of its passenger seats, designed primarily for the movement of a load; "truck" includes a motor vehicle specifically designed to pull a trailer or semi-trailer;(12) "tunnel" means the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel;(13) "vehicle" (A) means a device (i) in, upon, or by which a person or property may be transported or drawn upon or immediately over a highway; and(ii) registered as required under AS 28.10; and(B) does not include devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks;(14) "government motor vehicle" means a vehicle owned or operated by a government agency and on official business; "government motor vehicle" includes a (A) vehicle owned and operated by a school district and on official business; and(B) school bus under contract with a school district and on official business;(15) "truck-tractor" means a self-propelled commercial motor vehicle designed primarily for drawing a trailer that partially rests upon the self-propelled commercial motor vehicle.Eff. 6/4/2000, Register 154; am 6/8/2002, Register 162; am 7/9/2004, Register 171As of Register 188 (January 2009), the regulations attorney made a technical revision under AS 44.62.125(b)(6), to the authority citation for 17 AAC 38.900, to reflect the 2008 renumbering of former AS 19.45.001 by the revisor of statutes. The provisions of former AS 19.45.001 were relocated to AS 19.59.001.
Authority:AS 19.05.010
AS 19.59.001
AS 44.42.030