Terms used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, shall have the meanings assigned to them by section 15-34, and as follows:
(a) “Judgment” means any judgment which has become final by expiration without appeal of the time within which an appeal might have been perfected, or by final affirmation on appeal, rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction of any state or of the United States, upon a claim for damages suffered by a claimant arising out of the ownership, operation, maintenance or use of any aircraft, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury to or death of any person or injury to or destruction of property, including the loss of use thereof, or upon an agreement of settlement for such damages.
(b) “Nonresident's operating privilege” means the privilege conferred upon a nonresident by the law of this state pertaining to the operation by him of an aircraft, or the use of an aircraft owned by him, in this state.
(c) “Operator” means any person who is exercising actual physical control of an aircraft.
(d) “Owner” means any of the following persons who may be legally responsible for the operation of an aircraft: (1) A person who holds the legal title to an aircraft; (2) a lessee of an aircraft; (3) a conditional vendee, a trustee under a trust receipt and a mortgagor or other person holding an aircraft subject to a security interest.
(e) “Passenger” means any person in, on or boarding an aircraft for the purpose of riding therein, or alighting therefrom following a flight or attempted flight therein.
(f) Repealed by June, 1972, P.A. 1, S. 8.
(g) “Resident's operating privilege” means the privilege conferred upon a resident by the law of this state pertaining to the operation by him of an aircraft, or the use of an aircraft owned by him, in this state.
(1959, P.A. 488, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 194; 1972, P.A. 207, S. 11; June, 1972, P.A. 1, S. 8.)
History: 1969 act replaced department of aeronautics with commissioner of transportation in Subsec. (f); 1972 acts repealed Subsec. (f) which had defined “registration”.
Cited. 194 C. 129.
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