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SECTION 359
Definitions
Vehicle & Traffic (VAT) CHAPTER 71, TITLE 3, ARTICLE 7
§ 359. Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this
article shall, for the purpose of this article, have the following
meanings: (a) The singular shall include the plural; the masculine shall
include the feminine and neuter, as requisite.

(b) Commissioner. The commissioner of motor vehicles of this state.

(c) Department. The department of motor vehicles of this state acting
directly or through its duly authorized officers and agents.

(d) Person. Shall include individuals, firms, partnerships,
associations, corporations, receivers, referees, trustees, assignees for
the benefit of creditors; executors and administrators; and shall
include the owner of any motor vehicle as requisite; but shall not
include the state or any political subdivision thereof.

(g) Owner. A person who holds the legal title of a motor vehicle; or
in the event a motor vehicle is subject to a security interest, or lease
with the right of purchase upon performance of conditions stated in the
lease and with an immediate right of possession vested in the debtor or
lessee, then such debtor or lessee shall be deemed the owner for the
purpose of this act.

(h) Insured. The person in whose name there is issued a motor vehicle
liability policy, as defined in this article, and any other person
insured under the terms of such policy.

(i) Judgment. Any judgment, except a judgment rendered against this
state or any political subdivision thereof or any municipality therein,
which shall have become final by expiration without appeal of the time
within which appeal might have been perfected, or by final affirmance on
appeal, rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction of any state, any
province of Canada, the Dominion of Canada, the District of Columbia, or
the United States.

(j) Non-resident. Every person who is not a resident of this state.

(k) Motor vehicle. As used in this article, the term "motor vehicle"
shall be defined as in section one hundred twenty-five of this chapter,
except that it shall also include trailers, semi-trailers and tractors
other than tractors used exclusively for agricultural purposes, and
shall exclude fire and police vehicles, self-propelled combines,
self-propelled corn and hay harvesting machines, tractors used
exclusively for agricultural purposes and self-propelled caterpillar or
crawler-type equipment while being operated on the contract site.