Idaho S 1226: SPACE FORCE – Amends existing law to revise definitions.

Bill Text

LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO
Sixty-seventh Legislature Second Regular Session - 2024
IN THE SENATE
SENATE BILL NO. 1226
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
AN ACT1
RELATING TO SPACE FORCE; AMENDING SECTION 49-102, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE A2
DEFINITION, TO PROVIDE A CORRECT CODE REFERENCE, AND TO MAKE TECHNI-3
CAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 49-415D, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR4
THE SPACE FORCE AND TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SECTION5
65-502, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE A DEFINITION; AMENDING SECTION 67-9403,6
IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE A DEFINITION AND TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION;7
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.8
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:9
SECTION 1. That Section 49-102, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby10
amended to read as follows:11
49-102. DEFINITIONS -- A. (1) "Abandon" means to leave a vehicle on12
private property without the permission of the person having rights to the13
possession of the property, or on a highway or other property open to the14
public for the purposes of vehicular traffic or parking, or upon on or within15
the right-of-way of any highway, for twenty-four (24) hours or longer.16
(2) "Abandoned vehicle" means any vehicle observed by an authorized of-17
ficer or reported by a member of the public to have been left within the lim-18
its of any highway or upon on the property of another without the consent of19
the property owner for a period of twenty-four (24) hours or longer, except20
that a vehicle shall not be considered abandoned if its owner-operator is un-21
able to remove it from the place where it is located and has notified a law22
enforcement agency and requested assistance.23
(3) "Accident" means any event that results in an unintended injury or24
property damage attributable directly or indirectly to the motion of a motor25
vehicle or its load, a snowmobile or special mobile equipment.26
(4) "Actual physical control" means being in the driver's position of a27
motor vehicle with the motor running or the vehicle moving.28
(5) "Administrator" means the federal highway administrator, the chief29
executive of the federal highway administration, an agency within the U.S.30
department of transportation.31
(6) "Age of a motor vehicle" means the age determined by subtracting32
the manufacturer's year designation of the vehicle from the year in which the33
designated registration fee is paid. If the vehicle has the same manufac-34
turer's year designation as the year in which the fee is paid, or if a vehicle35
has a manufacturer's year designation later than the year in which the fee is36
paid, the vehicle shall be deemed to be one (1) year old.37
(7) "Agricultural products" means the following unprocessed products:38
(a) Agricultural, horticultural, floricultural and viticultural prod-39
ucts;40
(b) Fruits and vegetable products;41

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(c) Field grains, seeds, hay, sod and nursery stock, and other plants,1
plant products, plant byproducts by-products, plant waste and plant2
compost;3
(d) Livestock, dairy animals, swine, furbearing animals, poultry,4
eggs, fish and other aquatic species;5
(e) Other animals, animal products and animal byproducts by-products,6
animal waste and animal compost; and7
(f) Bees, bee products and bee byproducts by-products.8
(8) "Air-conditioning equipment" means mechanical vapor compression9
refrigeration equipment which that is used to cool the driver's or passenger10
passenger's compartment of any motor vehicle.11
(9) "Alcohol" or "alcoholic beverage" means:12
(a) Beer as defined in 26 U.S.C. section 5052(a), of the Internal Rev-13
enue Code;14
(b) Wine of not less than one-half of one a percent (.005%) (0.5%) of15
alcohol by volume; or16
(c) Distilled spirits as defined in section 26 U.S.C. 5002(a)(8), of17
the Internal Revenue Code.18
(10) "Alley" means a public way of limited use intended only to provide19
access to the rear or side of lots or buildings in urban districts.20
(11) "All-terrain vehicle" or "ATV" means an all-terrain vehicle or ATV21
as defined in section 67-7101, Idaho Code.22
(12) "Amateur radio operator." (See "Radio operator, amateur," section23
49-119, Idaho Code)24
(13) "Ambulance" means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily for25
the transportation of injured, sick, or deceased persons, on stretchers,26
cots, beds, or other devices for carrying persons in a prone position.27
(14) "Applicant" means an individual who applies to obtain, transfer,28
upgrade, or renew a driver's license.29
(15) "Approved driver training course" means a training course from a30
school licensed under the provisions of chapter 21 of this title 54, title31
54, Idaho Code, or a driver training course approved by another United States32
jurisdiction, provided the course was taken while an individual was a resi-33
dent of that United States jurisdiction.34
(16) "Approved testing agency" means a person, firm, association, part-35
nership or corporation approved by the director of the Idaho