Maine Revised Statutes > Title 29-A > Chapter 9 > Subchapter 1 – General Provisions
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- Business location: means a permanent enclosed building in which the business involving transporter or loaner licenses may be lawfully carried on in accordance with the terms of all applicable building codes and zoning and other land use regulatory ordinances. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Dealer: means a person engaged in the business of buying, selling, exchanging or offering to negotiate, negotiating or advertising the sale of a vehicle or industrial equipment and who has:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851Equipment dealer: means a dealer whose primary business is the buying or selling of new or used industrial equipment or both, or farm equipment, or both. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851 Established place of business: means a permanent, enclosed building:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851Full-time employee: means any person who is employed and works at least 30 hours per week. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851 Full-time sales representative: means an employee who is employed by a dealer who, under any form of contract, sells, offers for sale or attempts to negotiate a sale or exchange of an interest in a vehicle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851 Gross weight: means the weight in pounds of an empty vehicle or axle plus the weight of the maximum load to be carried by the vehicle or axle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 101 Immediate family: means a spouse or child residing in the same household as the dealer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851 License: includes , but is not limited to, a nonresident operating privilege and the privilege of a person to apply for or obtain a license or permit to operate a motor vehicle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 101 Light trailer: means a trailer or semitrailer with an unladen gross weight of 3,000 pounds or less. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851 Motor vehicle: means a self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively on railroad tracks, but does not include:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 101Motorcycle: means a motor vehicle that has a seat or a saddle for the use of the rider and is designed to travel with only 2 or 3 10-inch or larger diameter wheels in ground contact and has a motor with a cylinder capacity of more than 50 cubic centimeters or an electric motor with a capacity of not less than 1,500 watts. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 101 Motorcycle dealer: means a dealer whose primary business is the buying or selling of new or used motorcycles, or both. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851 New vehicle dealer: means a dealer whose primary business is the buying and selling of new motor vehicles and who has a franchise from a distributor or manufacturer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851 Person: means an individual, corporation, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, fiduciary, trust, estate or any other legal or commercial entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 101 Registration: means the registration certificate, plates and renewal devices pertaining to the registration of a vehicle, including temporary registered gross weight increases. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 101 Semitrailer: includes , but is not limited to, so-called pole dollies and pole dickeys and wheels commonly used as a support for the ends of logs or other long articles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 101 Trailer: means a vehicle without motive power, designed to carry persons or property and to be drawn by a motor vehicle, not operated on railroad tracks, and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 101 Trailer dealer: means a dealer whose primary business is the buying and selling of new or used trailers or semitrailers, or both. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851 Used car dealer: means a dealer whose primary business is the buying and selling of used motor vehicles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851 Vehicle: means a device for conveyance of persons or property on a way. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 101 Vehicle auction: means selling a vehicle by bidding at a public or private sale. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 851 Wrecker: means a motor vehicle with hoisting apparatus and special equipment designed and used for towing or carrying wrecked or disabled vehicles or freeing vehicles stalled or stuck in snow, mud or sand, when such a motor vehicle in fact is being used for one of those purposes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A Sec. 101