25.1.11.010 Definitions

The following words and phrases, when used in this Act, shall, for the purposes of this section, except in those instance where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

(a) "Pueblo" – San Ildefonso Pueblo acting directly or through its duly authorized officers.

(b) "License" – any license, temporary instruction permit or temporary license issue under the laws of this Pueblo or any state or nation (including other Indian tribes) pertaining to the licensing of persons to operate motor vehicles.

(c) "Vehicle" – every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively uon stationary rails or tracks.

(d) "Motor Vehicle" – every self-propelled vehicle which is designed for use upon a highway, including trailers and semi-trailer designed for use with such vehicles (except traction engines, road rollers, farm tractors, tractors cranes, power shovels, and well drillers) and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead wires but not opened upon rails.

(e) "Non-resident's operating privilege" – the privilege conferred upon a non-resident by the laws of any state pertaining to the operation by him of a motor vehicle, or the use of a motor vehicle owned by him, in San Ildefonso Pueblo Indian Reservation.

(f) "Non-resident" – every person who is not a Resident of San Ildefonso Pueblo.

(g) "Operator" – every person who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle.

(h) "Owner" – a person who holds the legal title of a motor vehicle, or in the event a motor vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then such condition vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this Act.

(i) "Person" – every natural person, firm copartnership, association or corporation.

(j) "Registration" – registration certificate or certificates and registration plates issued under the laws of the Pueblo or any state or nation (including other Indian tribes) pertaining to the registration of motor vehicles.

(k) "Alcoholic liquor" – as used in this Act, "alcoholic liquor" means any and all distilled or rectified spirits, potable alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, aromatic bitters bearing the federal internal revenue strip stamps or any similar alcoholic beverage including all blended or fermented beverages, dilutions or mixtures of one or more of the foregoing containing more than one half of one percent alcohol, but excluding medicinal bitters.