{"data":{"id":"us-nd/n.d.-cent.-code-39-29-01","jurisdiction":"us-nd","citation":"N.D. Cent. Code § 39-29-01","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:\n1.\"Dealer\" means any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging off-highway vehicles or who advertises, or holds out to the public as engaged in the buying, selling, or exchanging of off-highway vehicles, or who engages in the buying of off-highway vehicles for resale.\n2.\"Off-highway vehicle\" means any motorized vehicle not designed for use on a highway and capable of cross-country travel on land, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or other natural terrain. The term includes a motorized vehicle converted to operate on snow. The term does not include an electric bicycle. An off-highway vehicle must be classified into one of the following categories:\na.Class I off-highway vehicle is a vehicle that does not qualify as road capable under chapters 39-21 and 39-27, has a seat or a saddle designed to be straddled by the operator, and has handlebars for steering control of two wheels.\nb.Class II off-highway vehicle is fifty inches [1270.00 millimeters] or less in width, weighs one thousand two hundred pounds [544.31 kilograms] or less, and travels on three or more nonhighway tires; or is sixty-five inches [1651 millimeters] or less in width, weighs two thousand pounds [907.19 kilograms] or less, and travels on four or more nonhighway tires.\nc.Class III off-highway vehicle weighs less than eight thousand pounds [3628.74 kilograms]; travels on skis, runners, tracks, or four or more tires; has a seat; has a wheel, handlebars, or t steering for steering control; and is designated for or capable of cross-country on or over land, water, sand, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or other natural terrain, but does not include a vehicle registered by the department under chapter 39-04 or 39-24.\n3.\"Operate\" means to ride in or on and control the operation of an off-highway vehicle.\n4.\"Operator\" means an individual who operates or is in actual physical control of an off-highway vehicle.\n5.\"Owner\" means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to an off-highway vehicle and entitled to its use or possession.\n6.\"Peace officer\" means a public servant authorized by law or by a government agency or branch to enforce the law and to conduct or engage in investigations of violations of the law.\n7.\"Register\" means the act of assigning a registration number to an off-highway vehicle.","path":["Title 39 Motor Vehicles","Chapter 39-29 Off-Highway Vehicles"],"source_url":"https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t39c29.pdf","current_through":"2026-07-31T11:12:02","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T21:04:14Z","sha256":"41072fcd3fe7bc4139204a8bac751202928dfd60c75c241fb017ec179ce4b5de","source_id":"us-nd","stale":true,"prev":"us-nd/n.d.-cent.-code-39-28-05","next":"us-nd/n.d.-cent.-code-39-29-01.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}