4. In this Code, unless the context indicates otherwise,“automobile considered to be a taxi” means a qualified automobile within the meaning of section 9 of the Act respecting remunerated passenger transportation by automobile (chapter T-11.2) when it is used to offer remunerated passenger transportation; “autonomous vehicle” means a road vehicle equipped with an automated driving system that can operate a vehicle at driving automation level 3, 4 or 5 of the SAE International’s Standard J3016;
“bicycle boulevard” means all or part of a public highway on which bicycle traffic is facilitated;
“bus” means a motor vehicle, other than a minibus, designed for the transportation of more than nine occupants at a time and used mainly for that purpose or equipped with devices to secure wheelchairs against movement;
“combination of road vehicles” means a combination of vehicles consisting of a motorized road vehicle drawing a trailer, a semi-trailer or a detachable axle;
“commercial vehicle” means a motor vehicle mainly used for the transportation of property;
“detection system” means any system for measuring or calculating speed or monitoring road behaviour, including photo radar devices and red light camera systems;
“drug” includes cannabis and the other substances included in the types of drugs listed in subsection 5 of section 320.28 of the Criminal Code (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46);
“emergency vehicle” means a road vehicle used as a police car in accordance with the Police Act (chapter P-13.1), a road vehicle used as an ambulance in accordance with the Act respecting pre-hospital emergency services (chapter S-6.2), a fire safety vehicle, or any other road vehicle which meets the criteria established by regulation for recognition as an emergency vehicle by the Société; “farmer” means a natural person who is a member of an association certified under the Farm Producers Act (chapter P-28), a person who is the owner or the lessee of a farm and whose principal activity is agriculture, or an agricultural cooperative governed by the Cooperatives Act (chapter C-67.2) whose object is the use of agricultural equipment by its members; “health care professional” means a person holding a permit or licence issued by one of the following professional orders, and who is entered on the roll of that order:(1) Ordre professionnel des médecins du Québec;
(2) Ordre professionnel des optométristes du Québec;
(3) Ordre professionnel des psychologues du Québec;
(4) Ordre professionnel des ergothérapeutes du Québec;
(5) Ordre professionnel des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec;
“heavy vehicle” means a heavy vehicle within the meaning of the Act respecting owners, operators and drivers of heavy vehicles (chapter P-30.3); “low-speed vehicle” means a motor vehicle having not more than four seats, belonging to the “low-speed vehicle” class defined in the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (C.R.C., c. 1038) and bearing a compliance label required by those Regulations;
“minibus” means a motor vehicle having two axles with single wheels and equipped with not more than five rows of seats for the transportation of more than nine occupants at a time, or equipped with devices to secure wheelchairs against movement;
“moped” means a passenger vehicle having two or three wheels and a maximum speed of 70 km/h, equipped with an electric motor or a motor having a piston displacement of not more than 50 cm3 and with an automatic transmission;
“motorcycle” means a passenger vehicle, other than a power-assisted bicycle, having two or three wheels that has at least one characteristic different from the characteristics of a moped;
“motor vehicle” means a motorized road vehicle primarily adapted for the transportation of persons or property;
“municipality” means a local municipality and also an metropolitan community or a regional county municipality where, under its constituent Act, it exercises its jurisdiction in respect of a public highway with regard to a matter contemplated in this Code;
“off-highway vehicle” means a vehicle to which the Act respecting off-highway vehicles (chapter V-1.3) applies; “passenger vehicle” means a motor vehicle designed for the transportation of not more than nine occupants at a time, where such transportation does not require a permit from the Commission des transports du Québec;
“personalized registration plate” means a registration plate bearing a number chosen by the applicant;
“pound” means a place determined by a municipality or by the Société as a place to which road vehicles seized by a peace officer on behalf of the Société are taken;
“power-assisted bicycle” means a bicycle that has an electric motor;
“public highway” means the surface of land or of a structure, the maintenance of which is entrusted to a municipality, a government or one of its agencies, over part of which one or more roadways open to public vehicular traffic and, where such is the case, one or more cycle lanes are laid out, except(1) highways under the administration of or maintained by the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune or the Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation,
(2) highways under construction or repair, but only with respect to vehicles assigned to the construction or repair, and
(3) highways which the Government determines, under section 5.2, as being exempt from the application of this Code;
“road vehicle” means a motor vehicle that can be driven on a highway, other than a vehicle that runs only on rails, a power-assisted bicycle or an electrically propelled wheelchair; a trailer, a semi-trailer or a detachable axle is defined as a road vehicle;
“roadway” means that part of a public highway ordinarily used for vehicular traffic;
“shared street” means all or part of a public highway on which pedestrian traffic has priority;
“taxi” means an automobile referred to in section 144 of the Act respecting remunerated passenger transportation by automobile (chapter T-11.2); “tool vehicle” means a road vehicle, other than a vehicle mounted on a truck chassis, manufactured to perform work and the work station of which is an integral part of the driver’s compartment. For the purposes of this definition, a truck chassis is a frame equipped with all the mechanical components required on a road vehicle designed for the transportation of persons, goods or equipment;
“tow truck” means a motor vehicle equipped to lift and tow a road vehicle or to load a road vehicle onto its platform.