As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:
- 1. To sell “at retail” means to sell a travel trailer to a person who will devote it to a consumer use.
- 2. “Department” means the state department of transportation.
- 3. “Distributor” means a person who sells or distributes travel trailers to travel trailer dealers either directly or through a representative employed by a distributor.
- 4. “Fifth-wheel travel trailer” means a type of travel trailer which is towed by a motor vehicle by a connecting device known as a fifth wheel. When used in this chapter, “travel trailer” includes a fifth-wheel travel trailer.
- 5. “Manufacturer” means a person engaged in the business of fabricating or assembling travel trailers of a type required to be registered.
- 6. “New travel trailer” means a travel trailer that has not been sold at retail.
- 7. “Person” includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, fiduciary or other legal entity engaged in business, other than a unit or agency of government or governmental subdivision.
- 8. “Place of business” means a designated location where facilities are maintained for displaying, reconditioning and repairing either new or used travel trailers.
- 9. “Sell” includes barter, exchange and other methods of dealing.
- 10. “Travel trailer” means a vehicle without motive power used or so manufactured or constructed as to permit its being used as a conveyance upon the public streets and highways and designed to permit the vehicle to be used as a place of human habitation by one or more persons. The vehicle may be up to eight feet six inches in width and its overall length shall not exceed forty-five feet. “Travel trailer” does not include a vehicle that is so designed as to permit it to be towed exclusively by a motorcycle.
- 11. “Used travel trailer” means a travel trailer which has been sold at retail and previously registered in this or any other state.
[C81, §322C.2] 2000 Acts, ch 1016, §24; 2002 Acts, ch 1119, §156; 2012 Acts, ch 1048, §5, 6; 2015 Acts, ch 123, §39