470.01 DEFINITIONS.
   For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
   (a)   "Juvenile" means any person under the age of seventeen years old.
   (b)   "Minor" means any person under the age of eighteen years old, including a juvenile.
   (c)   "Motorized low speed vehicle" means a coaster, scooter, go-ped, and any other alternatively fueled device or other motorized vehicle that is self-propelled by a motor or engine and which is not otherwise defined under Michigan law as a "motor vehicle," "motor-driven cycle," "motorized wheelchair," "motorcycle," "moped," or electric personal assistance mobility device ("EPAMD").
   (d)   "Motorized skateboard" means a self-propelled device which has a motor or engine, a deck on which a person may ride and at least two wheels in contact with the ground and which is not otherwise defined under Michigan law as a "motor vehicle," "motor-driven cycle," "motorized wheelchair," "motorcycle" or "moped."
   (e)   "Operator" means a person who operates or is in actual physical control of a motorized low speed vehicle or a motorized skateboard upon a public roadway, sidewalk, right-of-way, park, bicycle path or any other public property used for the operation of motor vehicles.
   (f)   "Owner" means a person who holds the legal title to a motorized low speed vehicle or motorized skateboard, or any person who is a lessee, conditional vendee or mortgagor of a motorized low speed vehicle or motorized skateboard with a right to immediate possession.
   (g)   "Supervision and control" means direct and continuous oversight by an individual eighteen years of age or older.
(Ord. 788. Passed 5-5-04.)