Motor vehicle

Under the Land Transportation and Traffic Code, a motor vehicle is any vehicle propelled by any power other than muscular power using the public highways, but excepting road rollers, trolley cars, street-sweepers, sprinklers, lawn mowers, bulldozers, graders, fork-lifts, amphibian trucks, and cranes if not used on public highways, vehicles which run only on rails or tracks, and tractors, trailers and traction engines of all kinds used exclusively for agricultural purposes. Trailers having any number of wheels, when propelled or intended to be propelled by attachment to a motor vehicle, shall be classified as separate motor vehicle with no power rating. (Sec. 3(a), R.A. No. 4136)

Under the Anti-Distracted Driving Act, a motor vehicle is an engine-driven vehicle such as, but not limited to, automobiles, trucks, vans, buses, jeeps, motorcycles and tricycles. (Sec. 3(f), R.A. No. 10913)

Under the New Anti-Carnapping Act of 2016, a motor vehicle refers to any vehicle propelled by any power other than muscular power using the public highways, except road rollers, trolley cars, street sweepers, sprinklers, lawn mowers, bulldozers, graders, forklifts, amphibian trucks, and cranes if not used on public highways; vehicles which run only on rails or tracks; and tractors, trailers and traction engines of all kinds used exclusively for agricultural purposes. Trailers having any number of wheels, when propelled or intended to be propelled by attachment to a motor vehicle, shall be classified as a separate motor vehicle with no power rating. (Sec. 2(e), R.A. No. 10883)