440.01  DEFINITIONS.
   As used in this chapter:
   (a)   "ATV" (all-terrain vehicle) means a multi-wheeled or track-driven vehicle designed especially for use on terrain other than a highway, roadway or street.
   (b)   "Dealer" means any person engaged in the sale, lease or rental of snowmobiles as a regular business.
   (c)   "Department" means Department of State.
   (d)   "Highway or street" means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
   (e)   "Operate" means to ride in or on and be in actual physical control of the operation of a snowmobile or ATV.
   (f)   "Operator" means any person who operates or is in actual physical control of a snowmobile or ATV.
   (g)   "Owner" means any of the following:
      (1)   A person who holds the legal title to a snowmobile.
      (2)   A vendee or lessee of a snowmobile which is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in an agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee.
      (3)   A person renting a snowmobile for more than thirty days.
   (h)   "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, the State and any of its agencies or subdivisions, and any body of persons, whether incorporated or not.
   (i)   "Right of way" means that portion of a highway less the roadway and any shoulder.
   (j)   "Roadway" means that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. If a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term roadway refers to any such roadway separately, but not to all such roadways collectively.
   (k)   "Shoulder" means that portion of a highway on either side of the roadway, which is normally snowplowed, for the safety and convenience of vehicular traffic.
   (l)   "Snowmobile" means any motor-driven vehicle designed for travel primarily on snow or ice of a type which utilizes sled-type runners or skis, or an endless belt tread or any combination of these or other similar means of contact with the surface upon which it is operated. It is not a vehicle which must be registered under Act 300 of the Public Acts of 1949, as amended, being Sections 257.1 to 257.923 of the Compiled Laws of 1948. (The Michigan Vehicle Code).
(Ord. 83.  Passed 2-9-72.)