Oklahoma § 47-230.23 - Definitions

§ 47-230.23. Definitions

As used in the Motor Carrier Act of 1995:

1. “Person” means any individual, firm, copartnership, limited

partnership, corporation, limited liability corporation, company,

association, or joint-stock association and includes any trustee,

receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof;

2. “Commission” means the Oklahoma Corporation Commission;

3. “License” means the license issued under authority of the

laws of the State of Oklahoma to motor carriers and private

carriers;

4. “Interstate Registration Certificate” (IRC) means a document

issued by the Commission granting permission to operate upon the

highways of the State of Oklahoma in interstate commerce exempt from

federal motor carrier regulation;

5. “Motor vehicle” means any automobile, truck, truck-tractor,

trailer or semitrailer or any motor bus or any self-propelled

vehicle not operated or driven upon fixed rails or tracks;

6. “Motor carrier of persons or property” means any person,

except a carrier of household goods or used emigrant movables,

operating upon any public highway for the transportation of

passengers or property for compensation or for hire or for

commercial purposes, and not operating exclusively within the limits

of an incorporated city or town within this state. Provided, the

provisions of the Motor Carrier Act of 1995 shall not apply to the

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following vehicles and equipment when such vehicles and equipment

are being used for the following:

a.

taxicabs and bus companies engaged in the

transportation of passengers and their baggage, not

operated between two or more cities and towns, when

duly licensed by a municipal corporation in which they

might be doing business,

b.

any person or governmental authority furnishing

transportation for school children to and from public

schools or to and from public-school-related

extracurricular activities under contract with, and

sponsored by, a public school board; provided, that

motor vehicles and equipment operated for the purposes

shall qualify in all respects for the transportation

of school children under the Oklahoma School Code and

the rules of the State Board of Education adopted

pursuant thereto.

c.

transport trucks transporting liquefied petroleum

gases intrastate which are owned or operated by a

person subject to and licensed by the Oklahoma

Liquefied Petroleum Gas Regulation Act, and

d.

transportation of livestock and farm products in the

raw state, when any of such commodities move from farm

to market or from market to farm on a vehicle or on

vehicles owned and operated by a bona fide farmer not

engaged in motor vehicle transportation on a

commercial scale;

7. “Corporate family” means a group of corporations consisting

of a parent corporation and all subsidiaries in which the parent

corporation owns directly or indirectly one hundred percent (100%)

interest;

8. “Intercorporate hauling” means the transportation of

property, by motor vehicle, for compensation, by a carrier which is

a member of a corporate family, as defined in the Motor Carrier Act

of 1995, when the transportation for compensation is provided for

other members of the corporate family;

9. “Private carrier” means any person engaged in transportation

upon public highways, of persons or property, or both, but not as a

motor carrier, and includes any person who transports property by

motor vehicle where such transportation is incidental to or in

furtherance of any commercial enterprise of such person, other than

transportation;

10. “Market” means the point at which livestock and farm

products in the raw state were first delivered by the producer of

the livestock and farm products in the raw state, upon the sale

thereof;

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11. “Public highway” means every public street, road or

highway, or thoroughfare in this state, used by the public, whether

actually dedicated to the public and accepted by the proper

authorities or otherwise; and

12. “Commercial enterprise” means all undertakings entered into

for private gain or compensation, including all industrial pursuits,

whether the undertakings involve the handling of or dealing in

commodities for sale or otherwise.

Added by Laws 1995, c. 143, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. Amended by Laws

1999, c. 366, § 7, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2005, c. 190, § 13, eff.

Sept. 1, 2005.