1320                               Laws of Maryland                         Ch. 534

§ 1-183. Security interest.

Security interest means an interest in a vehicle reserved or created
by agreement and which secures payment or performance of an
obligation. The term includes the interest of a lessor under a lease
intended as security. A security interest is "perfected" when it is
valid against third parties generally, subject only to specific statutory
exceptions.

§ 1-184. Semitrailer.

Semitrailer means every vehicle without motive power, other than
a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for
being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that some part
of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another
vehicle.

§ 1-185. Sidewalk.

Sidewalk means that portion of a street between the curb lines, or
the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines, in-
tended for use of pedestrians.

§ 1-186. Solid tire.

Solid tire means every tire of rubber or other resilient material
which does not depend upon compressed air for the support of the
load.

§ 1-187. Special mobile equipment.

Special mobile equipment means every vehicle not designed or
used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and
incidentally operated or moved over the highways, including farm
tractors, road construction or maintenance machinery, ditch-
digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus and concrete mixers. The
foregoing enumeration shall be deemed partial and shall not operate
to exclude other such vehicles which are within the general terms
of this section.

§ 1-188. Specially constructed vehicle.

Specially constructed vehicle means every vehicle of a type re-
quired to be registered hereunder not originally constructed under
a distinctive name, make, model, or type by a generally recognized
manufacturer of vehicles and not materially altered from its original
construction.

§ 1-189. Stand or standing.

Stand or standing means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied
or not, other than temporarily for the purpose of and while
actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers.

§ 1-190. State.

State means a state, territory, or possession of the United States,
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a
province of the Dominion of Canada.