Uttarakhand Motor Vehicles Rules, 2011
No: -- Dated: Jan, 01 2011
UTTARAKHAND MOTOR VEHICLES RULES, 2011
CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
1. Short title and commencement:- (1) These Rules may be called “The Uttarakhand Motor Vehicles Rules, 2011.
(2) They shall come into force from the date which the State Government may appoint.
2. Definitions:- (1) In these Rules, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context :
(a) “Act” means, the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act No. 59 of 1988);
(b) “Additional Transport Commissioner” means, an officer appointed as such by the State Government.
(c) “Approved Agent” means a person authorized by the Principal to do an act or acts on his behalf and appointed as such by means of a writing executed by the Principal in the presence of either a Magistrate or Notary Public appointed under the Notaries Act, 1952, and includes a legal practitioner authorized by him in this behalf;
(d) “Motor Vehicles Inspector” means a person appointed as such by the Transport Commissioner and posted as Assistant Regional Inspector at the head-quarters of each region or sub-region.
(e) “Assistant Regional Transport Officer” means an officer appointed as such by the State Government and posted at the headquarters of each region or sub-region.
(f) “Assistant Transport Commissioner” means an officer appointed as such by the State Government and posted at Dehradun.
(g) “Central Rules” means the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989.
(h) “Deputy Transport Commissioner” means an officer appointed as such by the State Government and posted at Dehradun.
(i) “Form SR” means a Form appended to these rules;
(j) “Hill Road’ means all roads within Pithoragarh, Champawat, Almorah, Bageshwar, Rudraprayag, Chamoli, Uttarkashi and Tehri-Garhwal districts, tahsil Chakrata of Dehradun district and those portions of Nainital and Garhwal district which lie on the north of the base of foothills directly from Tanakpur in the east via Kathgodam, Ramnagar in the west and all roads beyond municipal limits of Dehradun city towards Mussoorie;
(k) “Non resilient” in relation to a tyre of motor vehicle, means a tyre which is neither “Pneumatic” nor “resilient”
(l) “Passenger” means a person traveling in a public service vehicle, but shall not include the operator, the driver or the conductor or an employee of the operator of the public service vehicle traveling in the bona fide discharge of his duties in connection with the public service vehicle;
(m) “Transport Tax Officer-1” means an officer appointed as such by the Transport Commissioner and posted at every region or sub region or check post.
(n) “Transport Tax Officer-2” means an officer appointed as such by the Transport Commissioner or an official of the Transport Department not below the rank of Transport Tax Officer-2 who is authorized by the Transport Commissioner for this purpose.
(o) “Pneumatic Tyre” means a Tyre containing air inserted by mechanical pressure;
(p) “Region” means the territorial jurisdiction of a Regional Transport Authority as specified by the State Government as specified under sub-section (1) of Section 68.
(q) “Senior Motor Vehicles Inspector” means an officer appointed as such by the Transport Commissioner and posted at the headquarters of each region or sub region.
(r) “Regional Transport Officer” means an officer appointed as such by the Government and posted at the headquarters of each region under the Transport Department;
(s) “Resilient” in respect of tyre of a motor vehicle or trailor, means a tyre not being a pneumatic type made of Indiarubber;
(t) “Schedule” means a schedule appended to these rules;
(u) “Section” means a section of the Act;
(v) "State" means state of Uttarakhand.
(w) “State Government” means the State Government of Uttarakhand.
(x) “Sub-region” means the territorial limits of a revenue district; or any other territorial limit specified by the State Government.
(y) “Transport Commissioner” means an officer appointed as such by the State Government;
(z) “Identical Officer” means an officer of the Transport Commissioner organization who is substantially appointed on such post whose pay scales are equal.
(2) Word and expressions used in the Act and the Central Rules and not defined in these Rules shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Act and the Central Rules.