PURPOSE: This rule provides definitions of terms used in 7 CSR 10-16.020 through 7 CSR 10-16.050.

1. (1) Definitions. When used in administrative rules 7 CSR 10-16.020 through 7 CSR 10- 16.050, the following words and phrases have the meaning set forth in this rule:

   1. (A) “Commission” means the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission, and where appropriate, its authorized agents and representatives in the Missouri Department of Transportation;
   2. (B) “Licensee” means the Association of Sheltered Workshop Managers, Inc., a notfor-profit Missouri organization, or a successor public agency or private not-for-profit entity which contracts with the commission, if the Association of Sheltered Workshop Managers, Inc. should ever cease to be the licensee at its own election or at the election of the commission;
   3. (C) “License fee” means the fee charged by the commission’s licensee to a publisher or the publisher’s agent to lease publication vending machine space in a commission publication vending machine bin;
   4. (D) “Newsrack” means any self-service or coin-operated box, container, storage unit, or other dispenser owned, installed, used, and maintained by a publisher for the display, sale, and/or distribution of publications in a rest area;
   5. (E) “Publication” means a newspaper, pamphlet, newsletter, or magazine printed and distributed to convey news and information or other matters of public interest, which may include advertisements;
   6. (F) “Publication vending machine” or “machine” means the individual units owned and installed by the commission in the publication vending machine bin and in which only one (1) publication may be offered for sale;
   7. (G) “Publication vending machine bin” or “bin” means the device owned and installed by the commission, which is capable of holding up to four (4) publication vending machines and is placed at the rest areas in the sole discretion of the commission for the purpose of leasing space to a licensee or a publisher or its agent to sell publications;
   8. (H) “Publisher” means any person who has paid a license fee to the commission’s licensee to lease publication vending machine space in commission-owned machines to sell its publication; and
   9. (I) “Rest area” or “rest and recreation area” means a commission roadside facility along a Missouri interstate highway with parking facilities for the rest, safety, or other needs of motorists. This term includes the facilities described in sections 226.750 through 226.790, RSMo, and in Title 23, United States Code section 111(b). This term shall also include any facility located in Missouri designated as a welcome center or tourist information center by the commission.

AUTHORITY: section 29 of Art. IV, Mo. Const., sections 226.020, 226.150, 226.750–226.790, and 227.030, RSMo 2000,* Title 23, United States Code section 111(b), and Title 23, Code of Federal Regulations part 752. Emergency rule filed Jan. 19, 1996, effective Feb. 1, 1996, expired July 29, 1996. Original rule filed Jan. 16, 1996, effective July 30, 1996. Rescinded and readopted: Filed July 2, 2010, effective Feb. 28, 2011. *Original authority: 226.020, RSMo 1939; 226.150, RSMo 1939, amended 1977; 226.750–226.790, RSMo 1965; and 227.030, RSMo 1939.