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
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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 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; 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.