Sectional Analysis for Committee Substitute to House Bill 343(TRA)

"An Act excluding certain motor vehicles from the definition of commercial motor vehicle"

Section 1: Amends AS 28.40.100(a)(2) by expanding the exceptions listed under subsection (D) to include special mobile equipment that is driven on roads in order to relocate the vehicle to a job site from the definition of a commercial motor vehicle.

Title 13 of the Alasks Administrative Code, Chapter 10, Section 010 defines special mobile equipment as follows:

13 AAC 10.010. Definitions

In Chapters 02, 04, 06, and 08 of this title, and in AS 28, unless otherwise provided . . .

(52) "special mobile equipment" means a vehicle which is not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including but not limited to ditch digging apparatus, well boring apparatus, construction and maintenance machinery such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck tractors, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifers, earthmoving carryalls and scrapers, power shovels and drag lines, and self-propelled cranes and earthmoving equipment; it does not include house trailers, mobile homes, off-highway vehicles, dump trucks, truck-mounted transit mixers, cranes, or shovels, or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached; . . .

CSHB343/SA/1/28/98

Sectional Analysis for HB 343

"An Act excluding certain motor vehicles from the definition of commercial motor vehicle"

Section 1: Amends AS 28.40.100(a)(2) by expanding the exceptions listed under subsection (D) to include construction vehicles that are driven on roads in order to relocate the vehicle to a job site from the definition of a commercial motor vehicle.

HB343/SA/1/28/98