29-250-164 Me. Code R. § 1

Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024

Section 250-164-1 - DEFINITIONS

1. COMBINATION OF VEHICLES: means a power unit used in combination with one or more trailers, semitrailers, or auxiliary axles.

2. COMMISSIONER: means the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Transportation, or any Deputy Commissioner of the Maine Department of Transportation.

3. DIVISIBLE: means a load which can be reduced to legal limits without destroying its value.

4. FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION (FMCSA): means the agency of the United States Department of Transportation whose primary mission is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.

5. GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT (GVW): means the actual weight of the vehicle and load.

6. HIGHWAY: means all public ways, roads, including the Maine Turnpike, streets, avenues, alleys, boulevards, parks, squares, ferries, bridges, and approaches here to within the state.

7. LEGAL (as in LEGAL HEIGHT, LEGAL LIMIT): means a dimension or weight that does not require an overlimit permit.

8. MCS-150: means the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Motor Carrier Identification Report.

9. OCEANGOING CONTAINERS (OGC's): means freight carrying containers designed to travel on a two (2) or more axle semi-trailer chassis. For purposes of this rule, OGC's are deemed to be non-divisible. The term applies to both exported and imported oceangoing containers which meet the following conditions:

A. Exported oceangoing containers

1 are loaded and sealed at a shipping point within the State of Maine for shipment outside of the United States;

2 are accompanied by the appropriate permit carried in the vehicle (see Section 9);

3 remain sealed throughout the route of travel to the oceangoing vessel; and

4 are removed from the vehicle chassis only at either

a a dock facility for direct loading on board a ship; or

b a railhead for rail shipment directly to the dock facility of the oceangoing vessel.

B. Imported oceangoing containers

1 originate outside the United States;

2 are delivered to a manufacturing facility within the State of Maine;

1 contain only raw materials or components to be used to produce final products in the State of Maine at least 60% of which are exported outside the United States;

2 are accompanied by the appropriate permit carried in the vehicle (see Section 9); and,

3 remain sealed during the entire route of travel from the point of unloading at the vessel to the final destination in the State of Maine.

10. OVERLIMIT PERMIT: means a document approved by the Overlimit Permit Unit allowing the legal transport of overlimit loads and/or vehicles upon public highways within a certain time frame, and under certain conditions.

11. OVERLIMIT PERMIT UNIT: means the unit within the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Office of Motor Carrier Services with the authority and responsibility to process overlimit and overweight permits.

12. OVERSIZE/OVERDIMENSIONAL/OVERLIMIT: means height, length, or width that exceeds the legal limit.

13. OVERWEIGHT: means weight that exceeds the legal limits established in 29-A M.R.S.A. Chapter 21.

14. OVERWEIGHT PERMIT: means a document approved by the Overlimit Permit Unit allowing the legal transport of overweight loads and/or vehicles upon public highways within a certain time frame, and under certain conditions. OGC Permits are overweight permits.

15. SECRETARY: means the Maine Secretary of State, or any Deputy Secretary of State.

16. SEMITRAILER: means a vehicle without motive power that is designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and is constructed so that a part of its weight rests upon or is carried by a towing vehicle.

17. TRACTOR: means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles, but not so constructed as to carry a load other than part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.

18. USDOT NUMBER: means the motor carrier identification number issued by FMCSA, also known as a census number, provided for under CFR 49 Subpart B Section 390.21 S ubsection (B)(3).

19. VEHICLE: means a device used to transport persons or property on a highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon rails or tracks.

29-250 C.M.R. ch. 164, § 1