Statute Text
Fixed
load vehicle.
Fixed
load vehicle means all of the following apply to the vehicle:
(1) It is a
vehicle with or without motive power that is designed and used primarily:
(a) To support
and move a permanent load in the form of equipment or appliances constructed as
part of or permanently attached to the body of the vehicle;
(b) For
transportation of equipment or appliances that are ordinarily kept on or in the
vehicle in order that the vehicle may be used for its primary purpose; and
(c) Except for
the transportation of permanent load, appliances and equipment described in
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection, for purposes other than for the
transportation of persons or property over public highways or streets.
(2) It is a
vehicle other than the following:
(a) A travel
trailer.
(b) A tow
vehicle, including a tow vehicle with cranes, hoists or dollies.
(c) A
truck-mounted transit mixer or volumetric mixer.
(d) A
self-propelled mobile crane.
(e) A bucket
truck.
(3) It is a
vehicle that may include, but is not limited to, the following vehicles:
(a) Air
compressors, air drills, asphalt plants, asphalt spreaders, bituminous plants,
bituminous mixers, bituminous spreaders and bucket loaders;
(b) Concrete
batch plants, concrete mixers other than transit mixers or volumetric mixers,
cement spreaders, carryalls, crawler cranes, crushers and crushing plants,
diggers and ditchers, power units and plants;
(c) Earthmoving
scrapers, electric generating equipment, electric load-bank and wiring
equipment, front-end loaders, leveling graders, lighting plants and portable
wiring, motor graders, payloaders, power hoists, road graders, scoopmobiles,
skip hoists, stackers and hoists;
(d) Athey wheels,
backhoes, bituminous and concrete pavement finishers, drag lines, fork lift
trucks, log loaders, portable bins, portable parts and storage bins, portable
shops, portable storage tanks, power shovels, road rollers, sheepsfoot rollers
and paving mixers, towermobiles, welders, yarders;
(e) Bituminous
and concrete finishing machines, elevator equipment, scarifiers and rooters,
traction engines, vibro screens and rotary screens, wheeled and crawler
tractors other than truck tractors; and
(f) Apron
feeders, grain grinders, grain rollers, sand classifiers and drags, sawmills
and special construction equipment, scrap metal balers, scrubber screens and
plate feeders. [1983 c.338 §47; 1985 c.71 §1; 1995 c.79 §367; 2003 c.655 §87;
2017 c.539 §1; 2019 c.491 §51]