For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Any vehicle designated as such by KRS 189.910.
ELECTRIC LOW-SPEED SCOOTER. A device that:
(1) Weighs less than 100 pounds;
(2) Is equipped with wheels;
(3) Is equipped with handlebars;
(4) Is equipped with a brake adequate enough to stop and park the device;
(5) Is designed to be stood or sat upon;
(6) Is propelled by an electric motor, human power, or both; and
(7) Is designed to operate at a maximum speed of 20 miles per hour, on a paved level surface, with or without human propulsion.
HIGHWAY. Any public road, street, avenue, alley or boulevard, bridge, viaduct or trestle and the approaches to them, and includes off-street parking facilities offered for public use, whether publicly or privately owned, except for hire parking facilities listed in KRS 189.700.
HIGHWAY WORK ZONE. That portion of a highway and the affected area adjacent to a lane, berm, or shoulder, including a sidewalk, upon which construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, maintenance, inspection, or other work of that nature is being conducted by a government agency, private contractor, or utility company.
MOTOR TRUCK. Any motor propelled vehicle designed for carrying freight or merchandise. It shall not include self-propelled vehicles designed primarily for passenger transportation, but equipped with frames, racks or bodies having a load capacity of not exceeding 1,000 pounds.
MOTOR VEHICLE. Includes all vehicles, as defined under VEHICLE except:
(1) Road rollers;
(2) Road graders;
(3) Farm tractors;
(4) Vehicles on which power shovels are mounted;
(5) Construction equipment customarily used only on the site of construction and which is not practical for the transportation of persons or property upon the highways;
(6) Vehicles that travel exclusively upon rails;
(7) Vehicles propelled by electric power obtained from overhead wires while being operated within any municipality or where the vehicles do not travel more than five miles beyond the city limits of any municipality;
(8) Vehicles propelled by muscular power; and
(9) Electric low-speed scooters.
OPERATOR. The person in actual physical control of a vehicle.
SEMITRAILER. A vehicle designed to be attached to, and having its front end supported by, a motor truck or truck tractor, intended for the carrying of freight or merchandise, and having a load capacity of over 1,000 pounds.
SHARP CURVE. A curve of not less than 30 degrees.
STEEP GRADE. A grade of exceeding 7%.
TRAILER. Any vehicle designed to be drawn by a motor truck or truck tractor, but supported wholly upon its own wheels, intended for the carriage of freight or merchandise, and having a load capacity of over 1,000 pounds.
TRUCK TRACTOR. Any motor propelled vehicle designed to draw and to support the front end of a semitrailer. The semitrailer and the TRUCK TRACTOR shall be considered to be one unit.
UNOBSTRUCTED HIGHWAY. A straight, level, first-class road upon which no other vehicle is
passing or attempting to pass, and upon which no other vehicle or pedestrian is approaching in the opposite direction, closer than 300 yards.
VEHICLE. All agencies for the transportation of persons or property over or upon the public highways of the Commonwealth; and all vehicles passing over or upon the highways.
(KRS 189.010, 189.011) (1980 Code, § 520.1)