Section 250-153-1 - DEFINITIONSIn the regulation of motor carriers transporting property for-hire in the State of Maine over the public highways, the following words, terms and phrases shall have the meaning herein defined, unless the term so used is immediately followed by a different definition.
A. The term "Secretary" means the Maine Secretary of State.B. The term "Bureau" means the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.C. The term "person" means any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation, association or company, or lessees, trustees or receivers thereof, operating or causing the operation of motor vehicles over the public highways in the business of transporting passengers for hire.D. The term "intrastate carrier" means any person engaged in the business of transporting passengers for hire by motor vehicles over the public highways in the business of transporting passengers for hire.E. The term "interstate carrier" means any person transporting passengers for-hire that originates or terminates in this State from or to another State or Country by motor vehicles upon any public highway.F. The term "application" means original application, renewal application and transfer application filed by any person for an intrastate permit under the provisions of the statute.G. The term "Equipment Identification List" means the form prescribed and furnished by the Secretary requiring a complete description of each motor vehicle. The description shall include make, serial numbers, unit numbers (if any), name of the owner and the state in which the vehicle is registered. Copies of the Registration Certificate may be substituted for an actual equipment list for those carriers not covered by a blanket insurance policy.H. The term "docket number" means the serial number of the bus docket assigned by the Secretary to any application received.I. The term "insurance certificate" means the certification by insurance companies, surety companies or individual sureties to coverage under the provisions of the law on forms approved by the Secretary.J. "Primary insurance policy" means a policy of liability insurance providing the first dollars of coverage where multiple policies are used to meet the minimum insurance limits.K. "Excess insurance policy" means a policy of liability that is used to meet the minimum insurance limits and provides coverage for liability in excess of a primary insurance policy or an underlying insurance policy.L. The term "permit" means the permit under the seal of the Secretary of State issued to intrastate carriers under the provisions of Title 29-A Section 552. M. The term "public highway" means all public ways, roads, highways including the Maine Turnpike, streets, avenues, alleys, boulevards, parks, squares, ferries, and bridges and approaches thereto within the State.N. "Motor Vehicle" means any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively on tracks, including motorcycles. "Vehicle" shall include all kinds of conveyances on ways for person or property, including special equipment, except those propelled or drawn by muscular power or used exclusively on tracks.O. "Bus" means a motor vehicle of any description having a passenger seating capacity, inclusive of driver, of more than 15 passengers.P. "Limousine/van" means a motor vehicle for hire, with a driver, that is used for the transportation of passengers and that has a seating capacity of at least 5 and no more than 14 persons behind the driver.Q. "Taxicab" means a sedan, station wagon or minivan used for hire, with a driver, that has a seating capacity of less than 5 persons behind the driver.R. "Operator" means any person who drives any motor vehicle.S. The term "authorized representative" in the context of insurance filings, shall mean any person who has on file with the Secretary a signature card displaying: their name, their business address, their business telephone number, their signature, the name of their company and the effective date.29- 250 C.M.R. ch. 153, § 1