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Code Sec. 24-6. Official misconduct.-- Failure, refusal, or neglect on the part of any judicial or other officer or employee receiv- ing or having custody of any fine to comply with the provisions of section 24-5 shall constitute misconduct in office and shall be grounds for re- moval therefrom. Code Sec. 25-2. Definitions relating to vehicles and traffic.-- (i) Motor vehicle.-- Any self-propelled vehicle which is designed pri- marily for travel on the public highways and which is generally and commonly used to transport persons and property over the public highways. (u) Road machinery.--Those vehicles, self-propelled or otherwise, which are not designed primarily for the transportation of persons or cargo over the public highways, and those motor vehicles which may have origi- nally been designed for the transportation of persons but which have been redesigned or modified by the mounting thereon of special equipment or machinery, and which may be only incidentally operated or moved over the public highways. This definition includes but is not limited to wheeled vehicles commonly usedin the construction, maintenance and re- pair of roadways and the digging of ditches. (v) School bus.--Every motor vehicle owned by a public or governmental agency and operated for the transportation of children to or from school or privately owned and operated for compensation, but not including in- formal or intermittent arrangements such as sharing of actual gasoline expense or participation in a car pool, for the transportation of children to or from school. (w) Semitrailer.--Any whe~eled vehicle, without motive power, which is designed to be used in conjunction with a truck tractor so that some part of its own weight and that: of its cargo load rests upon or is carried by such truck trac tor, and which is generally and conmonly used to carry and transport property over the public highways. -7-