Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - MOTOR VEHICLES, DEPARTMENT OF
Title 251 - NEBRASKA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Chapter 4 - RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR PROCESSING APPORTIONED VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES WHICH HAVE CEASED TO BE ACTIVE PURSUANT TO NEB. REV. STAT. 60-305.16
Section 251-4-001 - GENERAL

001.02A Active vehicle means an apportionable vehicle or any apportioned vehicle unit for which a permanent plate has been issued by the Division which has not been deleted.

001.02B Apportionable vehicle means any vehicle used or intended for use in two (2) or more member jurisdictions that allocate or proportionally register vehicles and used for the transportation of persons for hire or designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. Apportionable vehicle does not include any recreational vehicle, vehicle displaying restricted plates, city pickup and delivery vehicle, bus used in the transportation of chartered parties, or government-owned vehicle. Such vehicle shall either (a) be a power unit having two (2) axles and a gross vehicle weight or registered gross vehicle weight in excess of twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds; (b) be a power unit having three (3) or more axles, regardless of weight; or (c) be used in combination when the weight of such combination exceeds twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds gross vehicle weight. Vehicles or combinations of vehicles having a gross vehicle weight of twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds or less and two-axle (2-axle) vehicles and buses used in the transportation of chartered parties may be proportionally registered at the option of the registrant.

001.02C Deletion means the removal by a registrant or motor carrier of an active vehicle from a fleet of registered motor vehicles.

001.02D Department means the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles and the Division of Motor Carrier Services of the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles.

001.02E Director means the Director of the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles or his or her designee and includes the Motor Carrier Services Division of the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles.

001.02F Division means the Division of Motor Carrier Services of the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles.

001.02G IRP or International Registration Plan means a reciprocal agreement between member jurisdictions authorized by Neb. Rev. Stat.60-305.03(2), the purpose of which is to promote and encourage the fullest possible use of the highway system by authorizing apportioned registration of fleets or vehicles, and the recognition of vehicles apportioned in other jurisdictions, thus contributing to the economic and social development and growth of jurisdictions.

001.02H Loss of possession means an apportioned vehicle unit is no longer an active vehicle due to fire or theft or because the vehicle was wrecked, junked, or dismantled.

001.02I Motor carrier means any individual, firm, partnership, limited liability company, agency, association, corporation, or organization which registers one (1) or more approtionable vehicles or active vehicles pursuant to IRP.

001.02J Permanent plate means a plate (or plates) issued to a motor carrier for a specific active vehicle registered pursuant to IRP which may be a truck, truck-tractor, trailer, semitrailer or other apportioned vehicle.

001.02K Person means bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint stock companies, and associates as provided in 49-802(16).

001.02L Registrant means any person, individual, firm, partnership, limited liability company, agency, association, corporation or organization registering one (1) or more apportionable vehicles or active vehicles pursuant to the IRP.

001.02M Registered motor vehicle means an apportionable vehicle or active vehicle registered pursuant to IRP.

001.02N Transfer of ownership means the sale of an apportionable vehicle or active vehicle, transfer by operation of law as provided in 60-111, or any time title to the apportionable vehicle or active vehicle has transferred, and includes cancellation or termination of a lease on an apportionable vehicle or an active vehicle by a registrant.