Terms used in chapters 32-3 to 32-5B, inclusive, mean:

(1) “Commercial motor vehicle,” any motor vehicle 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, and not specifically excluded under § 32-9-3;

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(2) “Component part,” any part of a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer other than a tire, having a vehicle identification number;

(3) “Dealer,” any person who, for commission or with intent to make a profit or gain, sells, exchanges, rents with option to purchase, offers or attempts to negotiate a sale or exchange of new, or new and used vehicles, or who is engaged wholly or in part in the business of selling new, or new and used vehicles, whether or not such vehicles are owned by that person;

(4) “Department,” Department of Revenue;

(4A) “Electric bicycle,” as that term is defined in § 32-20B-9;

(4B) “Gross vehicle weight rating,” the value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a single vehicle;

(5) “Junking certificate,” a certificate of ownership, which may not be restored to a title document which allows highway use, issued by the department to the owner of a vehicle which is going to be dismantled and sold for parts;

(5A) “Low-speed vehicle,” a four-wheeled motor vehicle whose speed attainable in one mile is more than twenty miles per hour and not more than twenty-five miles per hour on a paved level surface.

(6) “Manufactured home,” a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length in the traveling mode, or is three hundred twenty or more square feet when erected on a site; which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities; and which contains the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems therein. The term includes any structure which meets all the requirements of this subdivision and any other structure which has been certified by the secretary of housing and urban development. The term does not include a recreational park trailer;

(7) “Manufacturer,” any person, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or association engaged in the manufacture of new motor vehicles as a regular business;

(8) “Mobile home,” a movable or portable unit, designed and constructed to be towed on its own chassis (comprised of frame and wheels), and designed to be connected to utilities for year-round occupancy. The term includes:

(a) Units containing parts that may be folded, collapsed, or telescoped when being towed and that may be expanded to provide additional cubic capacity; and

(b) Units composed of two or more separately towable components designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of being separated again into the components for repeated towing.

The term does not include a recreational park trailer;

(9) “Moped,” a motor driven cycle equipped with two or three wheels. If a combustion engine is used, the maximum piston or rotor displacement shall be fifty cubic centimeters regardless of the number of chambers in such power source. The power source shall be equipped with a power drive system that functions directly or automatically only, not requiring clutching or shifting by the operator after the drive system is engaged. The term does not include an electric bicycle;