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9-13-2-165. “Serious bodily injury” defined.
“Serious bodily injury” has the meaning set
forth in IC 35-31.5-2-292.
9-13-2-167.5. “Snowmobile” defined.
“Snowmobile” has the meaning set forth in IC
14-8-2-261.
9-13-2-170.3. “Special machinery” defined.
“Special machinery” “Special machinery”
includes but is not limited to any of the following:
(1) A portable saw mill.
(2) Well drilling machinery.
(3) A utility service cable trailer.
(4) Any other vehicle that is designed to
perform a specific function.
(b) The term does not include the following:
(1) Avehicle that is designed to carry pas-
sengers.
(2) Implements of agriculture designed to
be operated primarily in a farm field or on
farm premises.
(3) Machinery or equipment used in high-
way construction or maintenance by the
Indiana department of transportation, a
county, or a municipality.
9-13-2-170.7. “Special purpose bus” defined.
“Special purpose bus” has the meaning set
forth in IC 20-27-2-10.
9-13-2-172. “Speed contest” defined.
“Speed contest” means an unnecessary rapid
acceleration by two (2) or more vehicles that cre-
ates a hazard to pedestrians, passengers, vehi-
cles, or other property.
9-13-2-175. “Street” and “Highway” defined.
“Street” or “highway” means the entire width
between the boundary lines of every way publicly
maintained when any part of the way is open to
the use of the public for purposes of vehicular
travel. The term includes an alley in a city or town.
9-13-2-177.3. “Telecommunications device”
defined.
(a) “Telecommunications device”, for pur-
poses of IC 9-21-8, IC 9-25-4-7, and IC 9-24-11-
3.3, means an electronic or digital
telecommunications device. The term includes a:
(1) wireless telephone;
(2) personal digital assistant;
(3) pager; or
(4) text messaging device.
(b) The term does not include:
(1) amateur radio equipment that is being
operated by a person licensed as an ama-
teur radio operator by the Federal
Communications Commission under 47
CFR Part 97; or
(2) a communications system installed in
a commercial motor vehicle weighing more
than ten thousand (10,000) pounds.
9-13-2-177.4. “Text message” defined.
“Text message,” for purposes of IC 9-21-8
has the meaning set forth in IC 9-21-8-0.5.
9-13-2-177.5. “Third party” defined.
“Third party,” for purposes of IC 9-17-3, has
the meaning set forth in IC 9-17-3-0.5.
9-13-2-178. “Through highway” defined.
“Through highway” means a highway or por-
tion of a highway at the entrance to which vehic-
ular traffic from intersecting highways is required
by law to yield right-of-way to vehicles on the
through highway in obedience to either a stop
sign or a yield sign.
9-13-2-180. “Tractor” defined.
“Tractor” means a motor vehicle designed
and used primarily for drawing or propelling trail-
ers, semitrailers, or vehicles of any kind. The
term does not include a farm tractor.
9-13-2-196. “Vehicle” defined [effective
January 1, 2015].
(a) “Vehicle” means, except as otherwise pro-
vided in this section, a device in, upon, or by
which a person or property is, or may be, trans-
ported or drawn upon a highway.
(b) “Vehicle”, for purposes of IC 9-14 through
IC 9-18, does not include the following:
(1) A device moved by human power.
(2) A vehicle that runs only on rails or
tracks.
(3) A vehicle propelled by electric power
obtained from overhead trolley wires but
not operated upon rails or tracks.
