§ 501-a. Definitions. The following terms when used in this article\nand in articles twenty and thirty-one of this chapter, shall have the\nfollowing meanings:\n 1. Commercial driver's license or CDL. A class A or B driver's license\nor a class C driver's license which bears an H, P or X endorsement,\nwhich licenses contain the legend commercial driving license or CDL\nthereon and which is issued in accordance with the commercial motor\nvehicle safety act of 1986, public law 99-570, title XII, and this\narticle which authorizes a person to operate a commercial motor vehicle\nand an altered motor vehicle commonly referred to as a "stretch\nlimousine" having a seating capacity of nine or more passengers\nincluding the driver.\n 2. Gross vehicle weight rating or GVWR. The weight of a vehicle\nconsisting of the unladen weight and the maximum carrying capacity\nrecommended by the manufacturer of such vehicle. The GVWR of a\ncombination of vehicles (commonly referred to as the "Gross Combination\nWeight Rating" or GCWR) is the GVWR of the power unit plus the GVWR of\neach vehicle in the combination.\n 3. Hazardous materials. Any material that has been designated as\nhazardous under 49 U.S.C. 5103 and is required to be placarded under\nsubpart F of 49 CFR part 172 or any quantity of a material listed as a\nselect agent or toxin in 42 CFR part 73.\n 4. Commercial motor vehicle. (a) A motor vehicle or combination of\nvehicles designed or used to transport passengers or property:\n (i) which has a GVWR of more than twenty-six thousand pounds; or\n (ii) which has a GCWR of more than twenty-six thousand pounds,\nincluding any towed unit with a GVWR of more than ten thousand pounds;\nor\n (iii) designed or used to transport fifteen or more passengers, in\naddition to the driver; or\n (iv) defined as a bus in subdivision one of section five hundred\nnine-a of this chapter; or\n (v) of any size, other than a farm vehicle operated within one hundred\nfifty miles of the operator's farm, used in the transportation of\nmaterials found by the United States secretary of transportation to be\nhazardous under the hazardous materials transportation act and which\nrequires the motor vehicle transporting such materials to be placarded\nunder the hazardous materials regulation, 49 CFR part 172, subpart F or\nis transporting any quantity of a material listed as a select agent or\ntoxin in 42 CFR part 73.\n (b) However, a commercial motor vehicle shall not include: (i) a\npersonal use vehicle or a covered farm vehicle or a combination of such\nvehicles; (ii) any motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles\noperated by a member of the armed forces for military purposes; (iii) a\npolice vehicle or fire vehicle, or combination of such vehicles during\nits use in an emergency operation as defined in section one hundred\nfourteen-b of this chapter, or in the performance of official duties, or\nactivities related to the execution of emergency governmental functions\npursuant to section 383.3 (d)(2) of title 49 of the code of federal\nregulations; (iv) a vehicle or combination of vehicles owned and\nidentified as being owned by the state or a political subdivision\nthereof or an ambulance service as defined in subdivision two of section\nthree thousand one of the public health law or a voluntary ambulance\nservice as defined in subdivision three of such section and used to\nprovide emergency medical service as defined in section three thousand\none of the public health law, or to perform official duties, or\nactivities related to the execution of emergency governmental functions\npursuant to section 383.3 (d)(2) of title 49 of the code of federal\nregulations; or (v) a vehicle or combination of vehicles which is\ndesigned and primarily used for purposes other than the transportation\nof persons or property and which is operated on a public highway only\noccasionally for the purpose of being transported to a construction or\noff-highway site at which
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