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An Act To Amend the Definition of "Special Mobile Equipment" in the Motor Vehicle Laws
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §101, sub-§70, as amended by PL 2011, c. 356, §2, is further amended to read:
 
70. Special mobile equipment.   "Special mobile equipment" means a motor vehicle with permanently mounted equipment not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property. "Special mobile equipment" includes, but is not limited to, road construction or maintenance machinery, ditch-digging apparatus, stone crushers, air compressors, power shovels, cranes, graders, rollers, trucks used only to plow snow and to carry sand only for ballastfor other duties pertaining to winter maintenance, including sanding and salting, well drillers and wood-sawing equipment or similar types of equipment.
 
Special mobile equipment is divided into Class A and Class B special mobile equipment. Well drillers must be registered as Class A special mobile equipment. All other special mobile equipment may be registered either as Class A or Class B special mobile equipment.
 
SUMMARY
This bill amends the definition of "special mobile equipment" in the motor vehicle laws in the provision regarding trucks used only to plow snow by adding to the truck's uses sanding and salting pertaining to winter maintenance. It removes from the definition trucks carrying sand only for ballast.