For the purpose of this article:

1. The term "motor vehicle" means and includes every automobile, truck, truck-tractor, all-terrain vehicle, utility vehicle or any motor bus or any self-propelled vehicle not operated or driven upon fixed rails or tracks or in the air or on water;

2. The term "vehicle" means and includes every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is, or may be, transported or drawn, excepting devices moved by human or animal power, when not used upon fixed rails or tracks, or in the air or on water;

3. The term "low-speed electrical vehicle" means and includes any four–wheeled electrical vehicle that is powered by an electric motor that draws current from rechargeable storage batteries or other sources of electrical current and whose top speed is greater than twenty (20) miles per hour but not greater than twenty-five (25) miles per hour and is manufactured in compliance with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration standards for low-speed vehicles in 49 C.F.R. 571.500;

4. The term "automobile" means and includes every motor vehicle constructed and used solely for the transportation of persons for purposes other than for hire or compensation;

5. The term "motorcycle" means and includes every motor vehicle designed to travel on not more than three wheels other than an all-terrain vehicle;

6. The term "truck" means and includes every motor vehicle constructed or used for the transportation of property not falling within the definition of truck-tractor, trailer or semitrailer, as herein defined;

7. The term "truck-tractor" means and includes every motor vehicle of the truck type designed to draw or support the front end of a semitrailer;

8. The term "trailer" means and includes any vehicle designed to be drawn by a truck, tractor or a truck-tractor, but supported upon its own wheels;

9. The term "semitrailer" means and includes any vehicle designed to be attached to, and having its front end supported by a truck, tractor, or truck-tractor;

10. The term "motor bus" means and includes every motor vehicle constructed so as to carry persons, and which is used or rented to carry persons for compensation;

11. The term "manufactured home" means a residential dwelling built in accordance with the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C., Section 5401 et seq., and rules promulgated pursuant thereto and the rules promulgated by the Oklahoma Used Motor Vehicle and Parts Commission pursuant to Section 582 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Manufactured home shall not mean a park model recreational vehicle as defined in Section 1102 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

12. The term "farm tractor" means and includes any vehicle of tractor type owned and operated by the purchaser and used exclusively for agricultural purposes;

13. The term "all-terrain vehicle" means and includes every vehicle defined as an all-terrain vehicle in Section 1102 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

14. The terms "legal ownership" and "legally owned" mean the right to possession, whether acquired by purchase, barter, exchange, assignment, gift, operation of law, or in any other manner;

15. The term "person" means and includes natural persons, individuals, partnerships, firms, associations, limited liability companies, corporations, estates, trustees, business trusts, syndicates, this state, any county, city, municipality, school district or other political subdivision of the state, or any corporation or combination acting as a unit or any receiver appointed by any state or federal court; and the use of the singular number shall include the plural number;

16. The term "Tax Commission" means the Oklahoma Tax Commission;

17. The term "utility vehicle" means every vehicle defined as a utility vehicle in Section 1102 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and

18. The term "medium-speed electrical vehicle" means any self-propelled, electrically powered four-wheeled motor vehicle, equipped with a roll cage or crush-proof body design, whose speed attainable in one (1) mile is more than thirty (30) miles per hour but not greater than thirty-five (35) miles per hour.

Added by Laws 1963, c. 361, § 2, eff. July 1, 1963. Renumbered from § 21-101 of Title 47 by Laws 1965, c. 215, § 3. Amended by Laws 1981, c. 118, § 27, eff. Oct. 1, 1981; Laws 1993, c. 366, § 44, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Laws 2000, c. 150, § 8, eff. July 1, 2000; Laws 2001, c. 243, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2001; Laws 2005, c. 284, § 8, eff. July 1, 2005; Laws 2008, c. 98, § 11, eff. July 1, 2008; Laws 2008, c. 302, § 11, emerg. eff. June 2, 2008; Laws 2016, c. 57, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2016.