05 LC 18
3985
House
Bill 119
By:
Representative O`Neal of the
146th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 7 of Chapter 2 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to motor vehicle license fees and classes, so as to change
certain definitions regarding such fees and classes; to provide an effective
date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
7 of Chapter 2 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to motor vehicle license fees and classes, is amended by striking Code Section
40-2-150, relating to definitions regarding such fees and classes, and
inserting in its place a new Code Section 40-2-150 to read as
follows:
"40-2-150.
As
used in this article, the term:
(.1)
'Agricultural field use vehicle' means a commercial truck designed specifically
for field applications of fertilizers, poultry litter, and crop protection
chemicals which is owned and operated by a farmer or business engaged in the
sale and application of fertilizers, poultry litter, and crop protection
chemicals and is operated primarily off the highway.
(.2)
'Commissioner' means the commissioner of motor vehicle safety.
(1)
'Farm truck' or 'farm trailer' means a truck or trailer for which the owner
submits a sworn statement as a part of the registration application to the
effect that the vehicle is used primarily on and is domiciled upon a farm
primarily for the carriage of unprocessed products of the farm.
(2)
'Farm vehicle' means a vehicle or combination of vehicles owned by a farmer or
rancher, which are operated over public highways and used exclusively to
transport unprocessed agricultural or livestock products raised, owned, and
grown by the owner of the vehicle to market or a place of storage; and shall
include the transportation by the farmer or rancher of any equipment, supplies,
or products purchased by that farmer or rancher for his own use and used in the
farming or ranching operation or used by a farmer or rancher partly in
transporting agricultural products or livestock from the farm or ranch of
another farmer or rancher that were originally grown or raised on that farm or
ranch or when used partly in transporting agricultural supplies, equipment,
materials, or livestock to the farm or ranch of another farmer or rancher for
use or consumption on that farm or ranch but not transported for
hire.
(3)
'Motor bus' means any passenger-carrying motor vehicle operated for hire and
having a passenger seating capacity of eight or more persons exclusive of the
driver.
(4)
'Owner declared gross vehicle weight' means the empty weight of the truck or
truck-trailer fully equipped and fueled and ready for operation on the road and,
in the case of combinations, means the weight when ready for operation on the
road of the heaviest trailer or semitrailer with which the power unit will be
placed in combination, plus the heaviest load which will be carried within the
licensed period.
(5)
'Private truck' or 'private trailer' means a truck or trailer other than a farm
truck, a farm trailer, farm vehicle, or a truck or trailer operated for hire by
a common or contract carrier.
(6)
'Trailer' means any vehicle operated over the public roads of this state without
motive power when the vehicle is designed for carrying persons or property,
either partially or wholly, on its own structure and is designed for being drawn
by a self-propelled
vehicle."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its
becoming law without such approval.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.