7 CSR 10-27.010
Definitions
PURPOSE: This rule provides definitions of
terms applicable to David’s Law authorizing
drunk driving victim memorial signs.
(1) Applicant—The person requesting the
installation of a drunk driving victim memorial sign and who must be an immediate family member of the victim or have written consent from an immediate family member to
submit the application on his/her behalf.
(2) Application—The document developed
and posted on the department’s website for
the sole purpose of gathering information
from the applicant requesting a drunk driving
victim memorial sign to determine if the
request qualifies for a drunk driving victim
memorial sign.
(3) Commission—The Missouri Highway and
Transportation Commission.
(4) Department—The Missouri Department
of Transportation.
(5) Immediate family member—A spouse,
child, stepchild, brother, stepbrother, sister,
stepsister, mother, stepmother, father, or
stepfather.
(6) Intoxicated—The person who was shown
to have been operating a motor vehicle at the
time of a motor vehicle accident and was
either: 1) in violation of section 577.012 or
577.010, RSMo; or 2) was committing an
intoxication-related traffic offense, as that
term is defined in section 577.023.1(3),
RSMo; or 3) less than twenty-one (21) years
of age and determined to be operating a
motor vehicle with two-hundredths of onepercent or more blood alcohol content; or 4)
determined to be operating a commercial
motor vehicle and either driving under the
influence of alcohol or driving under the
influence of a controlled substance, as these
terms are defined in section 302.700, RSMo.
(7) MSHP—The Missouri State Highway
Patrol.
(8) Sign—The drunk driving victim memorial sign.
(9) State highway—A route that is designated
as an Interstate, US highway, Missouri numbered or Missouri lettered route, or any other
roadway that is owned or maintained by the
Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission.
AUTHORITY: section 227.295, RSMo Supp.
2009.* Original rule filed Sept. 3, 2009,
effective April 30, 2010.
*Original authority: 227.295, RSMo 2009.