Any person using a motor vehicle or trailer registered as well-boring apparatus and well-servicing equipment for any purpose other than that for which the special equipment license plate was issued shall be guilty of a Class IV misdemeanor and shall be required to register such motor vehicle or trailer as a commercial motor vehicle or commercial trailer for the entire year in which the violation occurred.

Attorney's Note

Under the Nebraska Statutes, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Class IV misdemeanorup to $500
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Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 60-3,174

  • Commercial trailer: means any trailer or semitrailer which has a gross weight, including load thereon, of more than nine thousand pounds and which is designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of persons or property for hire, compensation, or profit or designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. See Nebraska Statutes 60-317
  • Motor vehicle: means any vehicle propelled by any power other than muscular power. See Nebraska Statutes 60-339
  • Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • Trailer: means any device without motive power designed for carrying persons or property and being towed by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle. See Nebraska Statutes 60-354
  • Well-boring apparatus: means trucks, truck-tractors, or combinations of trucks or truck-tractors and trailers which are not for hire and are used exclusively to travel to and from the well site including (1) the well rig truck, (2) the boom truck, (3) the water tank truck, and (4) such other devices as are used exclusively for transporting well-boring apparatus to and from the well site including the drill stem, casing, drilling mud, pumps and related equipment, and well-site excavating machinery or equipment. See Nebraska Statutes 60-359
  • Well-servicing equipment: means equipment used for the (1) care and replacement of down-hole production equipment and (2) restimulation of a well. See Nebraska Statutes 60-360
  • Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801