North Dakota Century Code Title 39. Motor Vehicles § 39-29-01. Definitions

1. “Dealer” means any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging off-highway vehicles or who advertises, or holds out to the public as engaged in the buying, selling, or exchanging of off-highway vehicles, or who engages in the buying of off-highway vehicles for resale.

2. “Off-highway vehicle” means any motorized vehicle not designed for use on a highway and capable of cross-country travel on land, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or other natural terrain. The term includes a motorized vehicle converted to operate on snow. The term does not include an electric bicycle. An off-highway vehicle must be classified into one of the following categories:

3. “Operate” means to ride in or on and control the operation of an off-highway vehicle.

4. “Operator” means an individual who operates or is in actual physical control of an off-highway vehicle.

5. “Owner” means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to an off-highway vehicle and entitled to its use or possession.

6. “Peace officer” means a public servant authorized by law or by a government agency or branch to enforce the law and to conduct or engage in investigations of violations of the law.

7. “Register” means the act of assigning a registration number to an off-highway vehicle.