7 Del. Admin. Code § 1140-3.0
The following words and terms, when used in this regulation or in the context of the California LEV and ACC program, shall have the following meanings:
"Air contaminant emission control system" means the equipment designed for installation on a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine for the purpose of reducing the air contaminants emitted from the motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine or a system or engine modifications on a motor vehicle which causes a reduction of air contaminants emitted from the motor vehicle engine, including but not limited to exhaust control systems, fuel evaporative control systems and crankcase ventilating systems.
"ATPZEV" means advanced technology partial zero emission vehicle.
"Business" means an occupation, profession or trade; a person or partnership or corporation engaged in commerce, manufacturing, or a service; a profit-seeking enterprise or concern.
"California Air Resources Board" or "CARB" means the agency or its successor established and empowered to regulate sources of air pollution in the state of California, including motor vehicles, pursuant to Section 39003, California Health & Safety Code, as amended or supplemented.
"California-certified" (vehicle) means a vehicle having a valid Executive Order stating that the vehicle meets all applicable requirements under applicable sections of Title 13, CCR and approved for sale in California by CARB.
"California low emission vehicle program" means the low emission vehicle program being implemented in the state of California, pursuant to the provisions of the Clean Air Act and the California Code of Regulations.
"CCR" means the California Code of Regulations.
"Certificate of conformity" means that document issued by California Air Resources Board, or the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"Clean Air Act or CAA" means the Federal Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq., as amended and supplemented.
"Dealer" means any person actively engaged in the business of offering to sell, soliciting or advertising the sale, buying, transferring, leasing, selling or exchanging new motor vehicles and who has an established place of business.
"Delivered for sale" means vehicles that have received a bill of lading for sale in Delaware and are shipped, or are in the process of being shipped to a dealer in Delaware.
"Department" means the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.
"Emergency vehicle" means any publicly owned vehicle operated by a peace officer in the performance of their duties, any authorized emergency vehicle used for fighting fires or responding to emergency fire calls and any publicly owned authorized emergency vehicle used by an emergency medical technician or -paramedic or any ambulance used by a private entity under contract with a public agency.
"Emission Control Label" means a paper, plastic, metal or other permanent material, welded, riveted or otherwise permanently attached to an area within the engine compartment (if any), or to the engine, in such a way that it will be visible to the average person after installation of the engine in all new vehicles certified for sale in California, in accordance with Title 13, California Code of Regulations Section 1965.
"Emission credits" means credits earned when a manufacturer's reported fleet average is less than the required fleet average.
"Emission debits" means debits earned when a manufacturer's reported fleet average exceeds the required fleet average.
"Emission standards" mean specified limitations on the discharge of air contaminants into the atmosphere.
"Environmental Performance Label" means a paper or plastic decal securely affixed by the manufacturer to a window of all passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty passenger vehicles which disclose the global warming and smog score for the vehicle in accordance with Title 13, CCR Section 1965.
"Executive Order" means a document issued by CARB certifying that a specified test group or model year vehicle has met all applicable requirements adopted by CARB pursuant to the applicable sections of Title 13, CCR for the control of specified air contaminants from motor vehicles and is thereby certified for sale in California.
"Federal Fuel Economy and Environmental Label" means a Federal Label that is affixed by the manufacturer to a window on all 2013 and subsequent model year passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and medium-duty passenger vehicles and would deem automobile manufacturers compliant with the federal Economy and Environmental Label published in 40 CFR Parts 85, 86 and 600 as promulgated on July 6, 2011 as compliant with the California Environmental Performance Label requirements. The label must disclose the smog and global warming scores for the vehicle in accordance with Title 13, CCR Section 1965 and the "California Motor Vehicle Emission Control, Smog Index, and Environmental Performance Label Specifications."
"Fleet Average Emission" means a vehicle manufacturer's average vehicle emissions of all greenhouse gases, non-methane organic gases (NMOG), or NMOG plus oxides of nitrogen (NMOG + NOx), as applicable, from all new vehicles delivered for sale or lease in Delaware in any model-year.
"Greenhouse Gas" means any of the following gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and hydrofluorocarbons.
"Greenhouse Gas Credit" means greenhouse gas credit.
"Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Test Group" means vehicles that have an identical test group, vehicle make and model, transmission class and driveline, aspiration method (e.g., naturally aspirated, turbocharged), camshaft configuration, valve train configuration, and inertia weight class.
"Gross vehicle weight rating or GVWR" means the value specified by the manufacturer as the maximum design loaded weight of a single vehicle.
"Heavy-duty Engine" means any engine used to propel a heavy-duty vehicle.
"Heavy-duty Vehicle" means a heavy-duty vehicle as defined at Title 13, CCR, Section 1900.
"Independent Low Volume Manufacturer" means a manufacturer that has been designated by CARB as an independent low volume manufacturer as defined at Title 13, CCR, Section 1900.
"Intermediate volume manufacturer" means a manufacturer that has been designated by CARB as an intermediate volume manufacturer as defined at Title 13, CCR, Section 1900.
"Large volume manufacturer" means a manufacturer that has been designated by the CARB as a large volume manufacturer as defined at Title 13, CCR, Section 1900.
"Light-duty truck" means any 2000 and subsequent model year motor vehicle certified to the standards in Title 13, CCR, Section 1961(a)(1), rated at 8,500 pounds gross vehicle weight or less, and any other motor vehicle rated at 6,000 pounds gross vehicle weight or less, which is designed primarily for purposes of transportation of property or is a derivative of such a vehicle, or is available with special features enabling off-street or off-highway operation and use.
"Loaded vehicle weight" means the vehicle curb weight plus 300 pounds.
"Manufacturer" means any independent low volume, small, intermediate or large volume vehicle manufacturer as defined at Title 13, CCR, Section 1900.
"Medium-duty passenger vehicle" means medium-duty passenger vehicle as defined at Title 13, CCR, Section 1900.
"Medium-duty vehicle" means medium-duty vehicle as defined at Title 13, CCR, Section 1900.
"Military tactical vehicle" means all land combat and transportation vehicles, excluding rail-based, which are designed for or are in use by any of the United States armed forces.
"Model year" means, for each vehicle manufacturer the period which includes January 1 of the calendar year in which the model is first offered for sale and ends December 31 of the final calendar year of sale or, if the manufacturer has no annual production period, the calendar year. In case of any vehicle manufactured in two or more stages, the time of manufacture shall be the date of completion of the chassis.
"Motor vehicle engine" means an engine that is used to propel a motor vehicle.
"Motor vehicle" or "vehicle" means every device in, upon, or by which a person or property is or may be transported otherwise than by muscular power, excepting such devices as run only upon rails or tracks and motorized bicycles.
"New motor vehicle engine" means a new engine in a motor vehicle.
"New vehicle" means any vehicle with 7,500 miles or fewer on its odometer.
"NMOG + NOx Credit" means non-methane organic gas plus oxides of nitrogen credit.
"Non-methane organic gas" or "NMOG" means the total mass of oxygenated and non-oxygenated hydrocarbon emissions.
"Passenger car" means any motor vehicle designed primarily for transportation of individuals and having a design capacity of 12 individuals or fewer.
"Person" means an individual, public or private corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, society or joint stock company, municipality, state, interstate body, or any Board, commission, employee, agent, officer or political subdivision of a state, an interstate body or the United States.
"Placed in service" means having been sold or leased to an end-user and not to a dealer or other distribution chain entity, and having been individually registered for on-road use by the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles.
"PZEV" means partial zero emission vehicle.
"Qualifying Community-based Clean Mobility Program" means a program determined by the Department to qualify as a community-based clean mobility program pursuant to guidance issued by the Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control. The Department must determine that a program qualifies as a community-based clean mobility program before a manufacturer may earn vehicle value pursuant to the requirements of Title 13, CCR, Section 1962.4.
"Recall" means: a manufacturer's issuing of notices directly to consumers that vehicles in their possession or control should be corrected; and/or a manufacturer's efforts to actively locate and correct vehicles in the possession or control of consumers.
"Recall Campaign" means that plan approved by the California Air Resources Board or the Department, by which the manufacturer will effect the recall of noncomplying vehicles.
"Sale" or "sell" means the transfer of equitable or legal title to a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine to the ultimate purchaser.
"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Department.
"Small Volume Manufacturer" means a manufacturer that has been designated by the CARB as a small volume manufacturer as defined at Title 13, CCR, Section 1900.
"State" means the State of Delaware, unless otherwise specified.
"Test group" means a grouping of vehicles as defined by 40 CFR 86.1827-01, as supplemented or amended, and incorporated herein by reference.
"Test vehicle" means an experimental or prototype motor vehicle that appears to have very low emission characteristics, or a used motor vehicle within which an experimental motor vehicle pollution control device is installed, and which has also received a test vehicle or fleet permit from CARB.
"TZEV" means transitional zero emission vehicle.
"Ultimate purchaser" means, with respect to any new motor vehicle or new motor vehicle engine, the first person whom in good faith purchases a new motor vehicle or new motor vehicle engine for purposes other than resale.
"USEPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
"Vehicle identification number" or "VIN" means a unique, 17 digit, alphanumeric code that the vehicle manufacturer assigns to a vehicle.
"ZEV" means any passenger car, light-duty truck, or medium-duty truck certified to the zero emission vehicle standards in Title 13 CCR § 1962, 1962.1, 1962.2, and 1962.4.
"ZEV credit bank" means a zero-emission vehicle credit bank set up by the CARB or the environment department that records and tracks the generation, verification, transfer, voluntary retirement, use, and invalidation of zero-emission vehicle credits.
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