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# 1 U.S.C. § 4 - “Vehicle” as including all means of land transportation

## Text

The word “vehicle” includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land.

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)