DEF 1
(A) FMS or PD vehicle
(B) Public or private ambulance operated by a person who has been issued a license by the Department of State health services
(C) private vehicle of a volunteer/employee EMS or FD responding to a fire alarm or medical emergency
(D) blood or tissue bank vehicle when making emergency deliveries.
(E) vehicle used for LE purposes that is owned/leased by a federal gov. entity
Authorized emergency vehicle
a trailer or semitrailer, other than a towable recreational vehicle, that:
(A) is transportable on a highway in one or more sections;
(B) is less than 45 feet in length, excluding tow bar, while in the traveling mode;
(C) is built on a permanent chassis;
(D) is designed to be used as a dwelling or for commercial purposes if connected to required utilities; and
(E) includes plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems.
House trailer -
a motor vehicle that is equipped with a rider's saddle and designed to have when propelled not more than three wheels on the ground, that cannot attain a speed in one mile of more than 30 miles per hour, and the engine of which:
(A) cannot produce more than five-brake horsepower; and
(B) if an internal combustion engine, has a piston displacement of 50 cubic centimeters or less and connects to a power drive system that does not require the operator to shift gears.
Moped -
means a motor vehicle, other than a tractor or moped, that is equipped with a rider's saddle and designed to have when propelled not more than three wheels on the ground.
Motorcycle -
- a bus designed to accommodate more than 15 passengers, including the operator, that is owned, operated, rented, or leased by a school district, county school, open-enrollment charter school, regional education service center, or shared services arrangement and that is used to transport public school students on a school-related activity trip, other than on routes to and from school. The term does not include a chartered bus, a bus operated by a mass transit authority, a school bus, or a multifunction school activity bus.
School activity bus
a motor vehicle that was manufactured in compliance with the federal motor vehicle safety standards for school buses in effect on the date of manufacture other than the standards requiring the bus to display alternately flashing red lights and to be equipped with movable stop arms, and that is used to transport preprimary, primary, or secondary students on a school-related activity trip other than on routes to and from school. The term does not include a school bus, a school activity bus, a school-chartered bus, or a bus operated by a mass transit authority.
Multifunction school activity bus -
- a vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer:
(A) designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to transport persons or property; and
(B) constructed so that part of the vehicle's weight and load rests on or is carried by another vehicle.
Semitrailer
means a truck, including a pickup truck, panel delivery truck, or carryall truck, that has a manufacturer's rated carrying capacity of 2,000 pounds or less
Light truck -
a motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, used to transport persons and designed to accommodate 10 or fewer passengers, including the operator.
Passenger car -
a device that can be used to transport or draw persons or property on a highway. The term does not include:
(A) a device exclusively used on stationary rails or tracks; or
(B) manufactured housing as that term is defined by Chapter 1201, Occupations Code.
Vehicle -
(A) a motor vehicle used to transport persons and designed to accommodate 10+ passengers or
(B) a motor vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used to transport persons for compensation.
Bus -
motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement to draw an implement of husbandry, including a plow or a mowing machine.
Farm tractor
a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily to transport property.
Truck -
a self-propelled vehicle or a vehicle that is propelled by electric power from overhead trolley wires. The term does not include an electric bicycle or an electric personal assistive mobility device, as defined by Section 551.201.
Motor vehicle -
means a motor vehicle that was manufactured in compliance with the federal motor vehicle safety standards for school buses in effect on the date of manufacture and that is used to transport pre-primary, primary, or secondary students on a route to or from school or on a school-related activity trip other than on routes to and from school. The term does not include a school-chartered bus or a bus operated by a mass transit authority.
School bus -
a vehicle that is not designed or used primarily to transport persons or property and that is only incidentally operated on a highway. The term:
(A) includes ditchdigging apparatus, well boring apparatus, and road construction and maintenance machinery, including an asphalt spreader, bituminous mixer, bucket loader, tractor other than a truck tractor, ditcher, levelling grader, finishing machine, motor grader, road roller, scarifier, earth-moving carryall and scraper, power shovel or dragline, or self-propelled crane and earth-moving equipment; and
(B) excludes a vehicle that is designed to transport persons or property and that has machinery attached, including a house trailer, dump truck, truck-mounted transit mixer, crane, and shovel.
Special mobile equipment -
a nonmotorized vehicle that:
(A) is designed:
(i) to be towable by a motor vehicle; and
(ii) for temporary human habitation for uses including recreational camping or seasonal use;
(B) is permanently built on a single chassis;
(C) may contain one or more life-support systems; and
(D) may be used permanently or temporarily for advertising, selling, displaying, or promoting merchandise or services, but is not used for transporting property for hire or for distribution 22. Trailer - a vehicle, other than a pole trailer, with or without motive power:
Towable recreational vehicle -
a vehicle used by a peace officer, as defined by Article 2.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, for law enforcement purposes that:
(A) is owned or leased by a governmental entity;
(B) is owned or leased by the police department of a private institution of higher education that commissions peace officers under Section 51.212, Education Code; or
(C) is:
(i) a private vehicle owned or leased by the peace officer; and
(ii) approved for use for law enforcement purposes by the head of the law enforcement agency that employs the peace officer, or by that person's designee, provided that use of the private vehicle
Police vehicle -
means a __________:
(A) equipped with:
(i) fully operable pedals; and
(ii) an electric motor of fewer than 750 watts; and
(B) with a top assisted speed of 28 miles per hour or less.
Electric bicycle
a vehicle without motive power:
(A) designed to be drawn by another vehicle and secured to the other vehicle by pole, reach, boom, or other security device; and
(B) ordinarily used to transport a long or irregularly shaped load, including poles, pipes, or structural members, generally capable of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.
Pole trailer -
a device that a person may ride and that is propelled by human power and has two tandem wheels at least one of which is more than 14 inches in diameter.
Bicycle
(A) a vehicle, other than a passenger car or truck, that is designed and adapted for use as a farm implement, machinery, or tool for tilling the soil;
(B) a towed vehicle that transports to the field and spreads fertilizer or agricultural chemicals; or
(C) a motor vehicle designed and adapted to deliver feed to livestock.
Implement of husbandry -
means a carrier that operates cars, other than streetcars, on stationary rails to transport persons or property.
"Railroad"
a motor vehicle designed and used to draw another vehicle but not constructed to carry a load independently or a part of the weight of the other vehicle or its load.
Road tractor -
a motor vehicle designed and used primarily to draw another vehicle but not constructed to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the other vehicle and its load.
Truck tractor