4501-41-02. Definitions

(A) "Motor vehicle" means every vehicle propelled or drawn by power other than muscular power or power collected from overhead electric trolley wires, except motorized bicycles, road rollers, traction engines, power shovels, power cranes, and other equipment used in construction work and not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, hole-digging machinery, well-drilling machinery, ditch-digging machinery, farm machinery, trailers used to transport agricultural produce or agricultural production materials between a local place of storage or supply and the farm when drawn or towed on a public road or highway at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less, threshing machinery, hay-baling machinery, and agricultural tractors and machinery used in the production of horticultural, floricultural, agricultural, and vegetable products.

(B) "Sunscreening material" means products or materials, including film, glazing, and perforated sunscreening, which, when applied to the windshield or windows of a motor vehicle, reduce the effects of the sun with respect to light reflectance or transmittance.

(C) "Transmittance" means the ratio of the amount of total light, expressed in percentages, which is allowed to pass through the product or material, including glazing, to the amount of total light falling on the product or material and the glazing.

(D) "Windshield" means the front exterior viewing device of a motor vehicle.

(E) "Window" means any device designed for exterior viewing from a motor vehicle, except the windshield or any roof-mounted viewing device.

(F) "Manufacturer," unless otherwise specified in this chapter, means any person who engages in the manufacturing or assembling of sunscreening products or materials or any person who fabricates, laminates, or tempers a safety glazing material, incorporating, during the manufacturing process, the capacity to reflect or reduce the transmission of light.

(G) "Chauffered limousine" means a motor vehicle that is designed to carry nine or fewer passengers and is operated for hire on an hourly basis pursuant to a prearranged contract for the transportation of passengers on public roads and highways along a route under the control of the person hiring the vehicle and not over a defined and regular route. "Prearranged contract" means an agreement, made in advance of boarding, to provide transportation from a specific location in a chauffeured limousine at a fixed rate per hour or trip. "Chauffered limousine" does not include any vehicle that is used exclusively in the business of funeral directing.

Five Year Review (FYR) Dates: 9/4/2020 and 09/01/2025
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 4513.241
Rule Amplifies: 4513.241
Prior Effective Dates: 11/17/1988, 04/08/2004

Prior History: (R.C. 119.032 review dates: 09/04/2014 and 09/04/2019
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: R.C. 4513.241
Rule Amplifies: R.C. 4513.241
Prior Effective Dates: 11/17/88, 4/8/04)