TITLE 49

MOTOR VEHICLES

CHAPTER 1

DEFINITIONS

49-116.  Definitions — O. (1) "Off-highway vehicle" or "OHV" means an off-highway vehicle as defined in section 67-7101, Idaho Code.

(2)  "Operator" means every person who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle upon a highway or private property open to public use.

(3)  "Out-of-service order" means a temporary prohibition against operating a commercial vehicle as declared by an authorized enforcement officer of a federal, state, Canadian, Mexican, or local jurisdiction and which is applicable to a driver, a commercial motor vehicle, or a motor carrier operation pursuant to federal regulations 49 CFR 386.72, 392.5, 395.13, or 396.9, or compatible laws, or to the North American uniform out-of-service criteria.

(4)  "Owner" means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to a vehicle. The term includes a person entitled to the use and possession of a vehicle subject to a security interest in another person, but excludes a lessee under a lease not intended as security. "Owner," for the purposes of chapter 12, title 49, Idaho Code, means the person legally responsible for the operation of a vehicle upon the highways of the state of Idaho, whether as owner, lessee, or otherwise.

History:

[49-116, added 1988, ch. 265, sec. 2, p. 562; am. 1989, ch. 88, sec. 9, p. 163; am. 1990, ch. 45, sec. 8, p. 81; am. 1996, ch. 371, sec. 2, p. 1250; am. 1998, ch. 110, sec. 8, p. 387; am. 2021, ch. 171, sec. 1, p. 476.]