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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:502

  • Road machinery: means all vehicles constructed, designed, and used solely for the purpose of constructing, erecting, repairing, maintaining, demolishing or upkeeping of public roads, highways, and bridges, and not including vehicles temporarily or casually so used, constructed, or designed, or vehicles not intended to be so constructed, designed, and used or vehicles merely converted or susceptible to such use occasionally or vehicles so altered as to avoid and evade the registration or classification otherwise properly applicable thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451

Farm tractors, self-propelled farm equipment, rubber-tired farm wagons and carts and drawn rubber-tired farm equipment which are designed primarily for field use and which are operated or moved only incidentally on the highways of this state, and which are used for farm purposes only need not be registered under this chapter.  Road rollers and road machinery temporarily moved upon the highways are also exempt from registration.  

Amended by Acts 1972, No. 533, §1.