31-18-101. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act:

(i) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.

(ii) "Authority" means a document issued under this act by the department, granting intrastate authority to a person to operate a motor vehicle as a motor carrier transporting persons or property;

(iii) "Commercial vehicle" means any vehicle or vehicle combination used, designed or maintained for transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit, or designed or used primarily for the transportation of property for gain or profit and shall include, but not be limited to:

(A) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 183, § 2.

(B) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 183, § 2.

(C) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 183, § 2.

(D) With respect to interstate operation:

(I) Any vehicle engaged in transporting of persons or property, having a gross vehicle weight rating, gross combination weight rating, gross vehicle weight or gross combination weight of ten thousand one (10,001) pounds or more;

(II) Any vehicle transporting eight (8) or more passengers, including the driver, for compensation;

(III) Any vehicle transporting sixteen (16) or more passengers, including the driver, without compensation;

(IV) Any vehicle requiring a hazardous materials placard; or

(V) Any power unit having three (3) or more axles regardless of weight.

(E) With respect to intrastate operation:

(I) Any vehicle engaged in transporting of persons or property, having a gross vehicle weight rating, gross combination weight rating, gross vehicle weight or gross combination weight of twenty-six thousand one (26,001) pounds or more;

(II) Any vehicle transporting eight (8) or more passengers, including the driver, for compensation;

(III) Any vehicle transporting sixteen (16) or more passengers, including the driver, without compensation;

(IV) Any vehicle requiring a hazardous materials placard;

(V) A power unit having two (2) axles and a gross vehicle weight or registered gross vehicle weight exceeding twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds;

(VI) A power unit having three (3) or more axles regardless of weight; or

(VII) Is used in combination when the weight of such combination exceeds twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds of gross vehicle weight.

(iv) "Compensation" means money or other recompense given, either directly or indirectly, for the transportation of persons or property by a motor carrier;

(v) "Department" means the department of transportation;

(vi) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.

(vii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.

(viii) "Gross vehicle weight" means as defined in W.S. 31-1-101(a)(vii);

(ix) "Highway" means any road, street or way, whether on public or private property, open to public travel of any kind in Wyoming. For purposes of this paragraph, "open to public travel" means that the road section is available, except during scheduled periods, extreme weather or emergency conditions, passable by four-wheel standard passenger cars and open to the general public for use without restrictive gates, prohibitive signs or regulation other than restriction based on size, weight or class of registration. Toll plazas of public toll roads are not considered restrictive gates;

(x) "Motor carrier" or "carrier" means a contract, private or interstate commercial vehicle operating on highways as hereafter defined:

(A) "Contract motor carrier" means any person engaged in the intrastate or interstate transportation of persons or property by motor vehicle on highways for compensation;

(B) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.

(C) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.

(D) "Private motor carrier" means any person engaged in business and operating a vehicle which has a gross vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, gross combination weight or gross combination weight rating exceeding twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds operating intrastate or has a gross vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, gross combination weight or gross combination weight rating exceeding ten thousand (10,000) pounds operating interstate who, without compensation, transports over highways his employees or property of which the person is the owner, lessee or bailee, used in the furtherance of any commercial enterprise including transporting placardable amounts of hazardous materials or operating a vehicle designed to transport sixteen (16) or more passengers, including the driver. As used in this paragraph "commercial enterprise" means activities of those persons engaged in the exchange, purchase or selling of commodities or rendering a service in related financial transactions;

(E) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.

(F) "Interstate motor carrier" means any person engaged in the transportation of person or property by motor vehicle from one (1) state to another for compensation, including locations outside of the United States.

(xi) "Motor vehicle" means every self-propelled vehicle intended primarily for use and operation on highways;

(xii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.

(xiii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.

(xiv) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.

(xv) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.

(xvi) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.

(xvii) "State highway" means any highway now or subsequently designated as a state highway by the state transportation commission;

(xviii) "Trailer" means a vehicle without propelling power designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle. The term includes the following vehicles as hereafter defined:

(A) "House trailer" means a trailer designed, constructed and equipped as a dwelling place, living abode or sleeping place, either permanently or temporarily, and equipped for use as a conveyance on highways;

(B) "Semitrailer" means every vehicle of a trailer type not equipped with propelling power so designed for carrying property and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle;

(C) "Utility trailer" means any trailer less than six thousand (6,000) pounds gross vehicle weight ordinarily pulled by or attached to a motor vehicle.

(xix) "This act" means W.S. 31-18-101 through 31-18-903;

(xx) "Intrastate" means the transportation of persons or property between points within Wyoming;

(xxi) "Gross combination weight rating" means as defined in W.S. 31-7-102(a)(xxi);

(xxii) "Gross vehicle weight rating" means as defined in W.S. 31-7-102(a)(xxii).