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Section 100. - 100. Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, these definitions...
Section 102. - 102. “Ability to respond in damages” means financial responsibility. (Added...
Section 105. - 105. An “agricultural water-well boring rig” is a motor vehicle...
Section 108. - 108. “Airbrakes” means a brake system using compressed air either...
Section 109. - 109. “Alcoholic beverage” includes any liquid or solid material intended...
Section 110. - 110. “Alley” is any highway having a roadway not exceeding...
Section 111. - 111. (a) “All-terrain vehicle” means a motor vehicle subject to...
Section 111.3. - 111.3. An “all-terrain vehicle safety instructor” is a person who...
Section 111.5. - 111.5. An “all-terrain vehicle safety training organization” is any organization...
Section 112. - 112. “Amber” has the same meaning as “yellow,” and is...
Section 115. - 115. An “armored car” is a vehicle that is equipped...
Section 165. - 165. An authorized emergency vehicle is: (a) Any publicly owned...
Section 165.5. - 165.5. No act or omission of any rescue team operating...
Section 166. - 166. An “autobroker” or “auto buying service” is a dealer,...
Section 175. - 175. An “autoette” is a motor vehicle, located on a...
Section 210. - 210. An “automated enforcement system” is any system operated by...
Section 220. - 220. An “automobile dismantler” is any person not otherwise expressly...
Section 221. - 221. (a) The term “automobile dismantler” does not include any...
Section 223. - 223. Any reference in this code to “automobile driver training”...
Section 225. - 225. An “auxiliary dolly” is a vehicle, not designed for...
Section 230. - 230. An “axle” is a structure or portion of a...
Section 230.5. - 230.5. A “B-train assembly” is a rigid frame extension attached...
Section 231. - 231. A bicycle is a device upon which a person...
Section 231.5. - 231.5. A “bicycle path” or “bike path” is a Class...
Section 231.6. - 231.6. (a) A “bicycle path crossing” is either of the...
Section 232. - 232. The “board” is the New Motor Vehicle Board. (Added...
Section 232.5. - 232.5. “Brokering” is an arrangement under which a dealer, for...
Section 233. - 233. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a “bus”...
Section 234. - 234. A “business” includes a proprietorship, partnership, corporation, and any...
Section 235. - 235. A “business district” is that portion of a highway...
Section 236. - 236. A “business representative” means a proprietor, a limited or...
Section 240. - 240. In determining whether a highway is within a business...
Section 241. - 241. A “buy-here-pay-here” dealer is a dealer, as defined in...
Section 241.1. - 241.1. The term “buy-here-pay-here” dealer does not include any of...
Section 242. - 242. A “camp trailer” is a vehicle designed to be...
Section 243. - 243. A “camper” is a structure designed to be mounted...
Section 245. - 245. A “carry-all” is that type of earth-moving equipment which...
Section 246. - 246. A “certificate of compliance” for the purposes of this...
Section 250. - 250. A “chop shop” is any building, lot, or other...
Section 255. - 255. “City” includes every city and city and county within...
Section 257. - 257. A “clean fuel vehicle” means any passenger or commercial...
Section 259. - 259. “Collector motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle owned by...
Section 260. - 260. (a) A “commercial vehicle” is a motor vehicle of...
Section 265. - 265. The “commissioner” is the Commissioner of the California Highway...
Section 266. - 266. A “consignment” is an arrangement under which a dealer...
Section 267. - 267. A “converter” is a person, other than a vehicle...
Section 270. - 270. “County” includes every county and city and county within...
Section 273. - 273. A “crib sheet” or “cribbing device” is any paper...
Section 275. - 275. “Crosswalk” is either: (a) That portion of a roadway...
Section 280. - 280. “Darkness” is any time from one-half hour after sunset...
Section 285. - 285. “Dealer” is a person not otherwise expressly excluded by...
Section 286. - 286. The term “dealer” does not include any of the...
Section 288. - 288. “Declared combined gross weight” equals the total unladen weight...
Section 289. - 289. “Declared gross vehicle weight” means weight that equals the...
Section 290. - 290. “Department” means the Department of Motor Vehicles except, when...
Section 291. - 291. Any reference in this code to the Department of...
Section 295. - 295. The “director” is the Director of Motor Vehicles. (Enacted...
Section 295.5. - 295.5. A “disabled person” is any of the following: (a)...
Section 295.7. - 295.7. A “disabled veteran” is any person who, as a...
Section 296. - 296. A “distributor” is any person other than a manufacturer...
Section 297. - 297. A “distributor branch” is an office maintained by a...
Section 300. - 300. A “drawbar” is a rigid structure forming a connection...
Section 303. - 303. A “driveaway-towaway operation” is any operation in which any...
Section 305. - 305. A “driver” is a person who drives or is...
Section 310. - 310. A “driver’s license” is a valid license to drive...
Section 310.4. - 310.4. A “driving instructor” is, except as provided in Section...
Section 310.6. - 310.6. A “driving school” is a business which, for compensation,...
Section 310.8. - 310.8. A “driving school operator” is either a driving school...
Section 311. - 311. A “driving school owner” is any person licensed by...
Section 312. - 312. The term “drug” means any substance or combination of...
Section 312.5. - 312.5. (a) An “electric bicycle” is a bicycle equipped with...
Section 313. - 313. The term “electric personal assistive mobility device” or “EPAMD”...
Section 313.5. - 313.5. An “electrically motorized board” is any wheeled device that...
Section 314. - 314. An “expressway” is a portion of highway that is...
Section 315. - 315. “Essential parts” are all integral and body parts of...
Section 320. - 320. “Established place of business” is a place actually occupied...
Section 320.5. - 320.5. An “extralegal load” is a single unit or an...
Section 321. - 321. “Factory-built housing” is a structure as defined in Section...
Section 322. - 322. (a) A “farm labor vehicle” is any motor vehicle...
Section 324. - 324. A “fifth-wheel travel trailer” is a vehicle designed for...
Section 324.5. - 324.5. A “former prisoner of war” is any person who,...
Section 325. - 325. A “foreign jurisdiction” is any other state, the District...
Section 330. - 330. A “foreign vehicle” is a vehicle of a type...
Section 331. - 331. (a) A “franchise” is a written agreement between two...
Section 331.1. - 331.1. A “franchisee” is any person who, pursuant to a...
Section 331.2. - 331.2. A “franchisor” is any person who manufactures, assembles, or...
Section 331.3. - 331.3. A “recreational vehicle franchise” is a written agreement between...
Section 332. - 332. “Freeway” is a highway in respect to which the...
Section 335. - 335. A “gantry truck” is a motor vehicle so designed...
Section 336. - 336. “General public paratransit vehicle” means any motor vehicle designed...
Section 340. - 340. A “garage” is a building or other place wherein...
Section 345. - 345. A “golf cart” is a motor vehicle having not...
Section 350. - 350. (a) “Gross vehicle weight rating” (GVWR) means the weight...
Section 353. - 353. “Hazardous material” is any substance, material, or device posing...
Section 360. - 360. “Highway” is a way or place of whatever nature,...
Section 362. - 362. A “house car” is a motor vehicle originally designed,...
Section 365. - 365. An “intersection” is the area embraced within the prolongation...
Section 370. - 370. A “legal owner” is a person holding a security...
Section 371. - 371. Lessee includes “bailee” and is a person who leases,...
Section 372. - 372. A “lessor” is a person who, for a term...
Section 373. - 373. A “lessor-retailer” is a lessor or renter who, except...
Section 375. - 375. “Lighting equipment” is any of the following lamps or...
Section 377. - 377. A “limit line” is a solid white line not...
Section 378. - 378. (a) “Limousine” means any sedan or sport utility vehicle,...
Section 380. - 380. “Liquefied petroleum gas” means normal butane, isobutane, propane, or...
Section 385. - 385. “Local authorities” means the legislative body of every county...
Section 385.2. - 385.2. A “logging dolly” is a vehicle designed for carrying...
Section 385.3. - 385.3. A “logging vehicle” is a vehicle used exclusively in...
Section 385.5. - 385.5. (a) A “low-speed vehicle” is a motor vehicle that...
Section 386. - 386. A “managerial employee” is a person who exercises control...
Section 387. - 387. “Manufactured home” is a manufactured home, as defined in...
Section 389. - 389. A “manufacturer branch” is an office maintained by a...
Section 395. - 395. A “metal tire” is a tire the surface of...
Section 395.5. - 395.5. A “mobile billboard advertising display” means an advertising display...
Section 396. - 396. “Mobilehome” is a structure as defined in Section 18008...
Section 400. - 400. (a) A “motorcycle” is a motor vehicle having a...
Section 405. - 405. A “motor-driven cycle” is any motorcycle with a motor...
Section 406. - 406. (a) A “motorized bicycle” or “moped” is a two-wheeled...
Section 407. - 407. A “motorized quadricycle” is a four-wheeled device, and a...
Section 407.5. - 407.5. (a) A “motorized scooter” is any two-wheeled device that...
Section 408. - 408. “Motor carrier” is the registered owner, lessee, licensee, or...
Section 410. - 410. A “motor truck” or “motortruck” is a motor vehicle...
Section 415. - 415. (a) A “motor vehicle” is a vehicle that is...
Section 425. - 425. A “muffler” is a device consisting of a series...
Section 426. - 426. “New motor vehicle dealer” is a dealer, as defined...
Section 430. - 430. A “new vehicle” is a vehicle constructed entirely from...
Section 431. - 431. A “nonrepairable vehicle” is a vehicle of a type...
Section 432. - 432. A “nonrepairable vehicle certificate” is a vehicle ownership document...
Section 435. - 435. “Nonresident” is a person who is not a resident...
Section 435.5. - 435.5. “Nonresident daily commuter” means a person who is not...
Section 436. - 436. An “off-highway motorcycle” means a motorcycle or motor-driven cycle...
Section 440. - 440. An “official traffic control device” is any sign, signal,...
Section 445. - 445. An “official traffic control signal” is any device, whether...
Section 450. - 450. An “oil well production service unit” is any vehicle...
Section 455. - 455. “Original driver’s license” means the first driver’s license issued...
Section 460. - 460. An “owner” is a person having all the incidents...
Section 461. - 461. The Senate, Assembly, or any committees thereof, or the...
Section 462. - 462. A “paratransit vehicle” is a passenger vehicle, other than...
Section 463. - 463. “Park or parking” shall mean the standing of a...
Section 464. - 464. A “passenger transportation vehicle” is any vehicle, including a...
Section 465. - 465. A “passenger vehicle” is any motor vehicle, other than...
Section 467. - 467. (a) A “pedestrian” is a person who is afoot...
Section 467.5. - 467.5. “Pedicab” means any of the following: (a) A bicycle,...
Section 468. - 468. The department shall commence the “permanent trailer identification plate...
Section 470. - 470. “Person” includes a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, limited...
Section 471. - 471. A “pickup truck” is a motor truck with a...
Section 472. - 472. A “pilot car” is a motor vehicle, except a...
Section 473. - 473. (a) A “pocket bike” is a two-wheeled motorized device...
Section 475. - 475. A “pole or pipe dolly” is a vehicle, other...
Section 480. - 480. A “power brake” is any breaking gear or mechanism...
Section 485. - 485. A “pneumatic tire” is a tire inflated or capable...
Section 490. - 490. “Private road or driveway” is a way or place...
Section 492. - 492. A “private school” is any school, whether conducted for...
Section 500. - 500. “Recreational off-highway vehicle” means a motor vehicle meeting all...
Section 505. - 505. A “registered owner” is a person registered by the...
Section 505.2. - 505.2. (a) A “registration service” is a person engaged in...
Section 506. - 506. “Registration year” is the period of time beginning with...
Section 507. - 507. The “relevant market area” is any area within a...
Section 507.5. - 507.5. A “remanufactured vehicle” is a vehicle that has been...
Section 507.8. - 507.8. A “remanufacturer” is any person who for commission, money,...
Section 508. - 508. A “renter” is a person who is engaged in...
Section 510. - 510. A “repair shop” is a place where vehicles subject...
Section 512. - 512. A “representative” is any person regularly employed by a...
Section 515. - 515. A “residence district” is that portion of a highway...
Section 516. - 516. “Resident” means any person who manifests an intent to...
Section 520. - 520. A “retail sale” is a sale of goods to...
Section 521. - 521. A “retarder” is a device, other than a brake,...
Section 521.5. - 521.5. “Revived salvage vehicle” means a total loss salvage vehicle...
Section 522. - 522. “Ridesharing” means two or more persons traveling by any...
Section 525. - 525. “Right-of-way” is the privilege of the immediate use of...
Section 527. - 527. (a) “Road” means any existing vehicle route established before...
Section 530. - 530. A “roadway” is that portion of a highway improved,...
Section 531. - 531. “Utility-terrain vehicle” means a motor vehicle subject to subdivision...
Section 535. - 535. Safety glazing material is any glazing material so constructed,...
Section 540. - 540. A “safety zone” is the area or space lawfully...
Section 543. - 543. “Salvage pool” means a person engaged exclusively in the...
Section 543.5. - 543.5. “Salvage vehicle rebuilder” means any person who rebuilds a...
Section 544. - 544. “Total loss salvage vehicle” means either of the following:...
Section 545. - 545. (a) A “schoolbus” is a motor vehicle designed, used,...
Section 545.1. - 545.1. (a) Notwithstanding Section 545, a motor vehicle is not...
Section 545.5. - 545.5. (a) Notwithstanding Section 545, a bus of the type...
Section 546. - 546. A “school pupil activity bus” is any motor vehicle,...
Section 550. - 550. A “semitrailer” is a vehicle designed for carrying persons...
Section 553. - 553. “Shade trailer” means a device designed and utilized to...
Section 554. - 554. “Shared mobility device” means an electrically motorized board, as...
Section 555. - 555. “Sidewalk” is that portion of a highway, other than...
Section 557. - 557. A “snowmobile” is a motor vehicle designed to travel...
Section 558. - 558. A “snow-tread tire” is a tire which has a...
Section 560. - 560. A “solid tire” is a tire of rubber or...
Section 565. - 565. “Special construction equipment” is: (a) Any vehicle used primarily...
Section 570. - 570. “Special construction equipment” does not include any of the...
Section 575. - 575. “Special mobile equipment” is a vehicle, not self-propelled, not...
Section 580. - 580. A “specially constructed vehicle” is a vehicle which is...
Section 585. - 585. A “station wagon” is a dual purpose vehicle designed...
Section 587. - 587. “Stop or stopping” when prohibited shall mean any cessation...
Section 590. - 590. “Street” is a way or place of whatever nature,...
Section 591. - 591. A “street” or “highway” shall not include those portions...
Section 592. - 592. “Highway”, for the purposes of Division 3 (commencing with...
Section 593. - 593. “Supplemental restraint system” means an automatic passive restraint system...
Section 595. - 595. “Terminal” is a place where a vehicle of a...
Section 600. - 600. A “through highway” is a highway or portion thereof...
Section 605. - 605. “Tire traction devices” are devices or mechanisms having a...
Section 610. - 610. “Tire tread” is that portion of the tire, consisting...
Section 611. - 611. A “toll highway” or “toll road” is a publicly...
Section 612. - 612. (a) “Tour bus” means a bus, which is operated...
Section 615. - 615. (a) A “tow truck” is a motor vehicle which...
Section 617. - 617. A “tow dolly” is a vehicle towed by a...
Section 620. - 620. The term “traffic” includes pedestrians, ridden animals, vehicles, street...
Section 625. - 625. A “traffic officer” is any member of the California...
Section 626. - 626. A “traffic violator school” is a business that, for...
Section 626.2. - 626.2. A “traffic violator school branch or classroom location” is...
Section 626.4. - 626.4. A “traffic violator school instructor” is any person who...
Section 626.6. - 626.6. A “traffic violator school operator” is the person who...
Section 626.8. - 626.8. A “traffic violator school owner” is any natural person,...
Section 627. - 627. (a) “Engineering and traffic survey,” as used in this...
Section 630. - 630. A “trailer” is a vehicle designed for carrying persons...
Section 635. - 635. A “trailer coach” is a vehicle, other than a...
Section 636. - 636. A “trailer bus” is a trailer or semitrailer designed,...
Section 640. - 640. A “transferee” is a person who has acquired the...
Section 642. - 642. A “transit bus” is any bus owned or operated...
Section 645. - 645. (a) A “transporter” is a person engaged in the...
Section 650. - 650. A “trolley coach” is a vehicle which is propelled...
Section 655. - 655. (a) A “truck tractor” is a motor vehicle designed...
Section 657. - 657. A “truss” is an assemblage of beams, bars, or...
Section 660. - 660. The “unladen weight” of a vehicle is the weight...
Section 661. - 661. Unladen weight shall not include the following machinery, equipment...
Section 665. - 665. A “used vehicle” is a vehicle that has been...
Section 665.5. - 665.5. A “U-turn” is the turning of a vehicle upon...
Section 667. - 667. (a) A “utility trailer” is a trailer or semitrailer...
Section 668. - 668. A “vanpool vehicle” is any motor vehicle, other than...
Section 670. - 670. A “vehicle” is a device by which any person...
Section 670.5. - 670.5. A “vehicle frame” is defined as the main longitudinal...
Section 671. - 671. (a) A “vehicle identification number” is the motor number,...
Section 672. - 672. (a) “Vehicle manufacturer” is any person who produces from...
Section 675. - 675. (a) “Vehicle salesperson” is a person not otherwise expressly...
Section 675.5. - 675.5. A “vehicle verifier” is a person not expressly excluded...
Section 675.6. - 675.6. (a) “Vehicle verifier” does not include any of the...
Section 676. - 676. “Year-round registration” is a system whereby the director designates...
Section 676.5. - 676.5. A “water tender vehicle” is a vehicle designed to...
Section 680. - 680. (a) A “youth bus” is any bus, other than...
Section 681. - 681. (a) “Real ID driver’s license or identification card” means...