The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Business" means an occupation, profession, or trade; a person or partnership or corporation engaged in commerce, manufacturing, or a service; or a profit-seeking enterprise or concern.
"California Air Resources Board" or "CARB" means the agency, or its successor, established and empowered to regulate sources of air pollution in the state of California, including motor vehicles, pursuant to Section 39003, California Health and Safety Code, as amended or supplemented.
"CCR" means the California Code of Regulations.
"Certification" or "certified" means a finding by CARB or the EPA that a motor vehicle has satisfied the criteria for the control of specified air contaminants from motor vehicles, adopted by CARB or the EPA, respectively, as set forth in their respective regulations.
"Commissioner" shall have the same meaning as the term "Commissioner" as defined at N.J.A.C. 7:27-1.4.
"Dealer" means any person actively engaged in the business of offering to sell, soliciting, or advertising the sale, buying, transferring, leasing, selling, or exchanging of new motor vehicles and who has an established place of business.
"Delivered for sale" means vehicles that have received a bill of lading for sale in New Jersey and are shipped, or are in the process of being shipped, to a dealer in New Jersey.
"Department" shall have the same meaning as the term "Department" as defined at N.J.A.C. 7:27-1.4.
"EPA" shall have the same meaning as the term "EPA" as defined at N.J.A.C. 7:27-1.4.
"Intermediate volume manufacturer" means a manufacturer that has been designated by CARB as an intermediate volume manufacturer as defined at 13 CCR 1900.
"Large volume manufacturer" means a manufacturer that has been designated by CARB as a large volume manufacturer as defined at 13 CCR 1900.
"Lease" means any commercial transaction recognized pursuant to the laws of this State as a means of creating a right to use a good and includes renting. It also includes offering to rent or lease.
"Light-duty truck" shall have the same meaning as "light-duty truck" as defined at 13 CCR 1900.
"Manufacturer" means any small, intermediate, or large volume vehicle manufacturer as defined at 13 CCR 1900.
"Medium-duty vehicle" shall have the same meaning as "medium-duty vehicle" as defined at 13 CCR 1900.
"Model year" means model year as defined at 40 CFR 85.2302 and determined in accordance with the provisions at 40 CFR 85.2301 through 85.2304, which are incorporated herein by reference.
"Motor vehicle" or "vehicle" means every device in, upon, or by which a person or property is or may be transported otherwise than by muscular power, excepting such devices as run only upon rails or tracks and motorized bicycles.
"New motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle, the equitable or legal title to which has never been transferred to an ultimate purchaser.
"Passenger car" shall have the same meaning as "passenger car" as defined at 13 CCR 1900.
"Person" shall have the same meaning as the term "person" as defined at N.J.A.C. 7:27-1.4.
"PHEV" means a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.
"Sale" or "sell" means the transfer of equitable or legal title to a motor vehicle to the ultimate or subsequent purchaser.
"State" shall have the same meaning as the term "State" as defined at N.J.A.C. 7:27-1.4.
"Ultimate purchaser" means, with respect to any new motor vehicle, the first person who in good faith purchases a new motor vehicle for purposes other than resale.
"ZEV" means a zero-emission vehicle.
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