| Chapter 299 |
| 2026 -- S 3034 Enacted 06/23/2026 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES -- DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS |
Introduced By: Senators Dimitri, Tikoian, and Thompson |
| Date Introduced: March 05, 2026 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 31-1-9 of the General Laws in Chapter 31-1 entitled "Definitions and |
| General Code Provisions" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 31-1-9. Mobile equipment. |
| “Mobile equipment” means every vehicle 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, and road construction |
| or maintenance machinery such as asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors |
| other than truck tractors, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, |
| scarifiers, earth moving carry-alls and scrapers, power shovels and drag lines, and self-propelled |
| cranes and earth moving equipment. The term does not include house trailers, 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. For the purposes of this section |
| "incidentally" means actively participating in work in an active work zone, or crossing a highway |
| within a work zone. This does not include travelling down a highway under their own power. |
| SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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