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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 39:10-7

  • Manufacturer: means the person who originally manufactured the motor vehicle. See New Jersey Statutes 39:10-2
  • Nonconventional type motor vehicle: means every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved over a highway, including, but not limited to, ditch-digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus, road and general purpose construction and maintenance machinery, asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, ditchers, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth-moving carryalls, scrapers, power shovels, drag lines, self-propelled cranes, earth-moving equipment, trailers and semitrailers which weigh less than 2,500 pounds, except that no mobile or manufactured home or travel trailer shall be classified as a nonconventional type motor vehicle, motorized wheelchairs, motorized lawn mowers, bogies, farm equipment having a factory shipping weight of less than 1,500 pounds, whether or not motorized, including farm tractors within said weight limitation, industrial tractors, scooters, go-carts, gas buggies and golf carts. See New Jersey Statutes 39:10-2
Every motor vehicle and nonconventional type motor vehicle shall have and contain a manufacturer‘s vehicle identification number, which number shall not be obliterated, erased, mutilated, removed or missing. This section shall not affect those persons authorized by law to have in their possession a motor vehicle on which the manufacturer’s number or numbers have been obliterated, erased, mutilated, removed or missing.

Amended by L.1949, c. 235, p. 737, s. 2; L.1964, c. 238, s. 1.