Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 247 - Uniform Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title and Antitheft Act
Section 14-165. - Definitions.

Except when the context otherwise requires, as used in this chapter:

(1) “Dealer” means a person engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging vehicles who is licensed under the provisions of chapter 246;
(2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles;
(3) “Identification number” means the vehicle identification number of a motor vehicle, as defined in section 14-1;
(4) “Implement of husbandry” means a vehicle registered as a farm vehicle or a vehicle designated and adapted exclusively for agricultural, horticultural or livestock-raising operations or for lifting or carrying an implement of husbandry;
(5) “Lienholder” means a person holding a security interest in a vehicle;
(6) “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;
(7) “Security agreement” means a “security agreement” as defined in subdivision (74) of subsection (a) of section 42a-9-102;
(8) “Security interest” means a “security interest” as defined in subdivision (35) of subsection (b) of section 42a-1-201;
(9) “Special mobile equipment” means a vehicle not designed for the transportation of persons or property upon a highway and only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including, but not limited to, ditch-digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus and road construction and maintenance machinery such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, street sweepers, tractors other than truck tractors, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth moving carry-alls and scrapers, power shovels and drag lines, and self-propelled cranes and earth moving equipment. The term does not include house trailers, dump trucks, truck-mounted transit mixers, cranes or shovels, or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached;
(10) “State” means a state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a province of the Dominion of Canada;
(11) “Vehicle” means a motor vehicle as defined by section 14-1;
(12) “Manufacturer's or importer's certificate of origin” means the original written instrument or document required to be executed and delivered by the manufacturer to the manufacturer's agent or dealer, or a person purchasing direct from the manufacturer, certifying the origin of the vehicle;
(13) “Electronic title file” means the file maintained by the commissioner in an electronic media format for the purpose of recording and storage of the evidence of a lienholder's security interest in a vehicle; and
(14) “Special mobile agriculture vehicle” means a vehicle with an operator and agriculture support materials, operated upon or across any public highway, incidentally, in conjunction with the commercial operation of agriculture support. Commercial operation of agriculture support is limited to those services provided by a commercial entity to the agriculture industry and shall be limited to the spreading or spraying of materials to promote the growth of crops.
(1957, P.A. 607, S. 1; 1961, P.A. 573, S. 1; P.A. 77-604, S. 45, 84; P.A. 84-429, S. 64; P.A. 94-189, S. 32, 34; P.A. 96-162, S. 2; P.A. 01-132, S. 163; P.A. 02-70, S. 3; P.A. 04-199, S. 12; 04-217, S. 26; P.A. 05-109, S. 47; P.A. 08-150, S. 26; P.A. 11-108, S. 27.)
History: 1961 act redefined security agreement and security interest (Subsecs. (g), (h)) to conform to Uniform Commercial Code; P.A. 77-604 replaced reference to (h) of Sec. 42a-9-105(1) with reference to (l) of said section; P.A. 84-429 made technical changes for statutory consistency; P.A. 94-189 redefined “special mobile equipment” to include street sweepers, effective July 1, 1994; P.A. 96-162 applied provisions to Sec. 14-167a but specific reference not added since said Sec. already included in existing reference to “this chapter”; P.A. 01-132 replaced Sec. 42a-9-105(1)(l) with Sec. 42a-9-102(a)(78) as the statutory reference for the definition of “security agreement” and made technical changes, including a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality; P.A. 02-70 redesignated Subsecs. (a) to (l) as Subdivs. (1) to (12), amended Subdiv. (3) to redefine “identification number” as the vehicle identification number of a motor vehicle, as defined in Sec. 14-1, added Subdiv. (13) defining “electronic title file” and made technical changes throughout, effective July 1, 2002; P.A. 04-199, effective July 1, 2004, and P.A. 04-217, effective January 1, 2005, both amended Subdiv. (3) to eliminate reference to Sec. 14-1(a)(91); P.A. 05-109 amended Subdiv. (8) by replacing reference to Sec. 42a-1-201(37) with reference to Sec. 42a-1-201(b)(35); P.A. 08-150 added Subdiv. (14) defining “special mobile agriculture vehicle”, effective June 12, 2008; P.A. 11-108 amended Subdiv. (7) re definition of “security agreement” to replace reference to Sec. 42a-9-102(a)(78) with reference to Sec. 42a-9-102(a)(74), effective July 1, 2013.
Cited. 215 C. 55.
Cited. 10 CA 22; 30 CA 263. A payloader is the same type of equipment as a bucket loader and therefore not a motor vehicle under Sec. 14-1 or Sec. 31-293a. 156 CA 727.
Cited. 41 CS 326.