[farmer_giles_of_ham]

Originally Posted by antjraf

so where do we find the definition of "is or may be"? It isn't in the Florida code.

at some point we must rely on the English language. The code means what it says, I guess.

I am seeing that the aspect that makes a device a vehicle is what it does or may do for "any person or property".

So a passenger bus transports riders. Does it transport the driver?

A freight truck transports cargo. How about the operator?

From this I deduct that we dont transport ourselves, it something that happens to what or who is carried.

Which excludes those who, like the driver, just come along for the ride and their incidental private property.

This also makes sense when viewed in light of the legislative history. This is an administrative body of law that certainly includes commerce and trade...so it should come as little surprise that any activity regulated here is somehow under that heading, one way or another.

Which is why I am getting that may=allowed: if the device is registered then it is presumed by implied consent to be treated as coming under the Vehicle Code Laws. the phrase "implied consent" appears over and over again there for some good reason. Somebody felt it was important to stress this.