# Transportation (GTR)

## Title 11. Vehicle Laws -- Definitions; General Provisions

### Subtitle 1. Definitions

#### Section 11-159

(a) "Special mobile equipment" means, except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, a vehicle that:

  (1) Is not used primarily for highway transportation of people or property; and

  (2) Is operated or moved on a highway only as an incident to its nonhighway use.

(b) "Special mobile equipment" includes a road construction or maintenance machine, mobile crane, ditchdigger, well driller, concrete mixer, jobsite office vehicle, or portable power generator.

(c) "Special mobile equipment" does not include a farm tractor or any farm equipment.

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Md. Code Ann., Transp. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)