TITLE 49

MOTOR VEHICLES

CHAPTER 1

DEFINITIONS

49-110.  Definitions — I. (1) "Identifying number" means:

(a)  Motor number. That identifying number stamped on the engine of a vehicle.

(b)  Vehicle identification number. The numbers and letters, if any, placed on a vehicle by the manufacturer for the purpose of identifying the vehicle.

(2)  "Implements of husbandry" means every vehicle including self-propelled units, designed or adapted and used exclusively in agricultural, horticultural, dairy and livestock growing and feeding operations. Such implements include, but are not limited to, combines, discs, dry and liquid fertilizer spreaders, cargo tanks, harrows, hay balers, harvesting and stacking equipment, pesticide applicators, plows, swathers, mint tubs and mint wagons, and farm wagons. A farm tractor when attached to or drawing any implement of husbandry shall be construed to be an implement of husbandry. "Implements of husbandry" do not include semitrailers, nor do they include motor vehicles or trailers, unless their design limits their use to agricultural, horticultural, dairy or livestock growing and feeding operations.

(3)  "Incidentally operated" means the transport of the implement of husbandry from one (1) farm operation to another.

(4)  "Individual record" means a record containing personal information about a designated person who is the subject of the record as identified in a request for information.

(5)  "Infraction" means a civil public offense, not constituting a crime, which is not punishable by incarceration and for which there is no right to a trial by jury or right to court-appointed counsel, and which is punishable by only a penalty not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300) and no imprisonment.

(6)  "Instruction permits":

(a)  "Class A, B or C instruction permit." (See "Commercial learner’s permit," section 49-104, Idaho Code)

(b)  "Class D driver’s training instruction permit" means a temporary privilege to operate a class D motor vehicle while attending classes as an enrollee of a public or private driver’s training course only; is available to a person aged fourteen and one-half (14 1/2) years and older; is issued to the instructor of the driver’s training course; is issued and expires pursuant to the provisions of section 49-307, Idaho Code; and the permittee is subject to the conditions specified in section 49-307, Idaho Code.

(c)  "Class D instruction permit" means a temporary privilege to operate a class D motor vehicle which is available to a person under the age of seventeen (17) years who has successfully completed an approved driver’s training course and has satisfied the requirements of a class D supervised instruction permit, or to any person seventeen (17) years of age or older; is valid for a period of one hundred eighty (180) days or as provided in section 49-305, Idaho Code, if applicable; privileges are limited to driving with a person who is at least eighteen (18) years of age who holds a valid class D driver’s license and is actually occupying a seat beside the permittee; is issued pursuant to the provisions of section 49-305, Idaho Code; and the permittee is subject to the conditions specified in section 49-305, Idaho Code.

(d)  "Class D supervised instruction permit" means a temporary privilege to operate a class D motor vehicle which is available to a person who is at least fourteen and one-half (14 1/2) years of age who has successfully completed an approved driver’s training course. No person may apply for a class D driver’s license until he has attained the age of at least fifteen (15) years and has successfully satisfied the requirements of this permit, as specified and issued pursuant to the provisions of section 49-307, Idaho Code.

(7)  "Instructor" means any person, whether acting for himself as operator of a commercial driver training school or for such a school for compensation, who teaches, conducts classes of, gives demonstrations to, or supervises practice of, persons learning to operate or drive motor vehicles.

(8)  "Insurer" means any insurer, public or private, which shall include, but not be limited to, insurance companies domiciled in the state of Idaho, agents, adjuster or any other person acting on behalf of any insurance not domiciled in the state of Idaho and any self-insured entity operating under Idaho insurance laws or rules.

(9)  "International registration plan" means a registration reciprocity agreement among the states of the United States and provinces of Canada providing for payment of registration and licensing fees on a proportional basis determined by the fleet miles operated in the various jurisdictions.

(10) "Intersection" means:

(a)  The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two (2) highways which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict.

(b)  Where a highway includes two (2) roadways thirty (30) feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of the divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded as a separate intersection. In the event an intersecting highway also includes two (2) roadways thirty (30) feet or more apart, then every crossing of two (2) roadways of the highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.

(c)  The junction of an alley with a street or highway shall not constitute an intersection.

History:

[49-110, added 1988, ch. 265, sec. 2, p. 558; am. 1996, ch. 327, sec. 1, p. 1118; am. 1997, ch. 80, sec. 4, p. 176; am. 2000, ch. 214, sec. 3, p. 585; am. 2000, ch. 418, sec. 2, p. 1332; am. 2007, ch. 249, sec. 1, p. 730; am. 2008, ch. 194, sec. 1, p. 608; am. 2010, ch. 16, sec. 1, p. 21; am. 2014, ch. 236, sec. 4, p. 597; am. 2015, ch. 54, sec. 2, p. 128; am. 2017, ch. 111, sec. 1, p. 259.]