VEH.4.2.010 General Definitions

Any term not defined in this Section shall be given its ordinary meaning. The following terms, wherever used in this ordinance, shall be construed to apply as follows, except where the context indicates otherwise:

(a) "All-terrain vehicle" and "ATV" means an engine-driven device which has a net weight of 650 pounds or less, which has a width of forty-eight (48) inches or less, which is equipped with a seat designed to be straddled by the operator, and which is designed to travel on three (3) or more low-pressure tires. Every non-electric ATV/UTV is required to be equipped with a functioning muffler to prevent excessive or unusual noise.

(b) "County" means Sawyer County, a political subdivision of Wisconsin.

(c) "County Road" means any road that is maintained by the County that exists within the exterior boundaries of the reservation.

(d) "Highway" means all public ways and thoroughfares and bridges and the same. It includes the entire width between the boundary lines of every way open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular travel.

(e) "Purpose of access from lodging" means for the purpose of traveling for the shortest distance that is necessary and as far to the right side of the roadway as possible for a person operating the all-terrain vehicle to go between a lodging establishment and the all-terrain vehicle route or trail that is closest to the lodging establishment.

(f) "Purpose of residential access" means for the purpose of traveling for the shortest distance that is necessary and as far to the right side of the roadway as possible for a person operating the all-terrain vehicle to go between a residence and the all-terrain vehicle route or trail that is closest to that residence.

(g) "Reservation" means the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation as established under the 1854 Treaty (cite) between the United States and the Ojibwe tribes.

(h) "Reservation road" means any road that is maintained by the tribal roads department.

(i) "Road, trail, or street" means any path that may or may not be paved which is identified by name, number of which the automobile use is intended.

(j) "Roadway" means that portion of a highway between the regularly established curb lines or that portion which is improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, excluding the berm or shoulder.

(k) "Nonmember" or "Non-Tribal Member" means a person is not currently enrolled in the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.

(l) "Off-highway motorcycle" means a two-wheeled motor vehicle that is straddled by the operator that is equipped with handlebars, and that is designed for use off a highway, regardless of whether it is also designed for use on a highway. The off-highway motorcycle operator shall be subject to the same terms and conditions as an ATV/UTV operator.

(m) "Tribal Governing Board" means the Tribal Governing Board of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.

(n) "Tribal Member" means an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.

(o) "Tribe" means the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.

(p) "Utility-task vehicle" and "UTV" as a commercially designed and manufactured motor-driven device that is designed to be used primarily off highway, and originally manufactured and equipped with all of the following: a weight, without fluids, of 3000 pounds or less; four or more tires; steering wheel; tail light; brake light; two headlights; width of not more than 65 inches; seat belts; and roll bar or similar device designed to reduce the likelihood that an occupant would be crushed as the result of a rollover. Every non-electric ATV/UTV is required to be equipped with a functioning muffler to prevent excessive or unusual noise.