§ 210. Persons or vehicles excluded or exempted, 60 C.J.S.

Motor Vehicles § 210

60 C.J.S. Motor Vehicles § 210

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IV. Licensing and Registration of Vehicles

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2. Particular Persons or Vehicles Affected

§ 210. Persons or vehicles excluded or exempted

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Statutes applicable only to motor carriers operating on a commercial basis for the transportation of goods or passengers
do not apply to persons transporting their own property or employees, and although a private carrier may be required
to obtain a special license or permit, such a carrier is not subject to provisions applicable only to common carriers.

Statutes that require a special license, permit, or certificate of public convenience and necessity for motor vehicles do not apply
to vehicles used only for the owner's personal or private pleasure or convenience. 1 Moreover, where a person is engaged in
other business at which he or she works regularly and does not hold himself or herself out as being in the business of carrying
passengers for hire, such a person may be permitted to use his or her motor vehicle to convey other individuals to certain points
and accept pay for it without becoming subject to the authority of the public service commission. 2 Likewise, a statute requiring
a contract carrier to procure a permit may not prohibit the casual use of roads by individuals, not in the general business of
carriage for hire, who casually haul for another, making a charge therefor. 3 Similarly, where the transportation is almost entirely
done on private premises under contract, and only occasional use is made of public streets, the operator is not engaged in
transportation for hire as a business over a public highway within the meaning of a statute requiring a permit. 4

On the other hand, an exception to a motor carrier statute of transportation by a person incident to, or in furtherance of, any
private commercial enterprise other than the business of transporting property for hire is not applicable to activity by a taxicab
company of regularly transporting property without any passenger carriage being involved. 5 A statutory exception of the
reciprocal, casual, or occasional transportation for hire of property by a person who is regularly engaged in other business also
does not except the operation of a taxicab company in transporting property without passengers on a regular basis. 6

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Exemptions.

Statutes which expressly exempt particular persons and vehicles from obtaining a state motor transportation license or permit and
paying a state license tax are reasonable 7 and not in violation of constitutional provisions 8 prohibiting discriminatory grants
of privileges 9 and requiring general laws to be uniform. 10 Exemptions from statutes otherwise requiring that a license, permit,
or certificate of public convenience and necessity be obtained have been granted to such persons and vehicles as the operators
of motor vehicles used solely to transport persons to and from public schools, 11 police or hospital busses or ambulances, 12
hotel and sightseeing busses, 13 persons furnishing dump trucks for transportation of excavated materials and road construction
materials, 14 and haulers of materials, supplies, or equipment for use on farms. 15 Other statutes exempt nonresident truckers
engaged exclusively in hauling household goods in interstate commerce while using the highways of the state, 16 vehicles of
less than a designated weight, 17 and vehicles used exclusively within a zone established by a commission. 18

Reciprocal registration exemption plan.

Common carriers who register in other states pursuant to a reciprocal registration plan may be specifically exempted from
registration under a state statute. 19

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Footnotes

1 Mont.—State v. Pepper, 70 Mont. 596, 226 P. 1108 (1924).

N.Y.—Zabriskie v. Law, 118 Misc. 471, 194 N.Y.S. 626 (Sup 1922), aff'd, 203 A.D. 40, 196 N.Y.S. 423
(2d Dep't 1922).

Unconstitutional to treat private motor vehicle as public carrier

W. Va.—State ex rel. Schroath v. Condry, 139 W. Va. 827, 83 S.E.2d 470 (1954).

2 Pa.—Beatty v. Public Service Commission of Com. of Pa., 110 Pa. Super. 461, 169 A. 21 (1933).

Transportation incident to principal business

The public utilities commission does not have jurisdiction over transportation services which are merely
an incident of the principal business of the transporting company.

Pa.—Protective Motor Service Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, 4 Pa. Commw. 75, 286
A.2d 30 (1972).

3 U.S.—Stephenson v. Binford, 53 F.2d 509 (S.D. Tex. 1931), aff'd, 287 U.S. 251, 53 S. Ct. 181, 77 L.
Ed. 288, 87 A.L.R. 721 (1932).

Iowa—Cedar Rapids Steel Transp., Inc. v. Iowa State Commerce Commission, 160 N.W.2d 825 (Iowa
1968).

4 U.S.—Macco Const. Co. v. Farr, 137 F.2d 52 (C.C.A. 9th Cir. 1943).

5 Ill.—People v. Johnson, 69 Ill. App. 2d 490, 217 N.E.2d 377 (1st Dist. 1966).

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6 Ill.—People v. Johnson, 69 Ill. App. 2d 490, 217 N.E.2d 377 (1st Dist. 1966).

7 N.Y.—Mid-States Freight Lines v. Bates, 279 A.D. 451, 111 N.Y.S.2d 578 (3d Dep't 1952), judgment
aff'd, 304 N.Y. 700, 107 N.E.2d 603 (1952).

Ohio—Riss & Co. v. Bowers, 114 Ohio App. 429, 19 Ohio Op. 2d 451, 183 N.E.2d 786 (10th Dist.
Franklin County 1961).

8 Wis.—Hillside Transit Co. v. Larson, 265 Wis. 568, 62 N.W.2d 722 (1954).

9 Ohio—Riss & Co. v. Bowers, 114 Ohio App. 429, 19 Ohio Op. 2d 451, 183 N.E.2d 786 (10th Dist.
Franklin County 1961).

10 Tenn.—Gasoline Transport Inc. v. Crozier, 210 Tenn. 96, 355 S.W.2d 98 (1962).

11 Mo.—State ex rel. Hering v. State Public Service Commission, 549 S.W.2d 658 (Mo. Ct. App. 1977).

Wis.—Schoolway Transp. Co., Inc. v. Division of Motor Vehicles, Dept. of Transp., 72 Wis. 2d 223, 240
N.W.2d 403 (1976).

12 Mont.—State v. Johnson, 75 Mont. 240, 243 P. 1073 (1926).

13 U.S.—Universal Interpretive Shuttle Corp. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, 393
U.S. 186, 89 S. Ct. 354, 21 L. Ed. 2d 334 (1968).

14 Pa.—Stiely v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, 209 Pa. Super. 440, 229 A.2d 14 (1967), order
aff'd, 429 Pa. 614, 241 A.2d 74 (1968).

15 N.Y.—Mid-States Freight Lines v. Bates, 200 Misc. 885, 111 N.Y.S.2d 568 (Sup 1952), judgment aff'd,
279 A.D. 451, 111 N.Y.S.2d 578 (3d Dep't 1952), judgment aff'd, 304 N.Y. 700, 107 N.E.2d 603 (1952).

Wis.—Hillside Transit Co. v. Larson, 265 Wis. 568, 62 N.W.2d 722 (1954).

16 Ohio—Riss & Co. v. Bowers, 114 Ohio App. 429, 19 Ohio Op. 2d 451, 183 N.E.2d 786 (10th Dist.
Franklin County 1961).

17 N.Y.—Mid-States Freight Lines v. Bates, 279 A.D. 451, 111 N.Y.S.2d 578 (3d Dep't 1952), judgment
aff'd, 304 N.Y. 700, 107 N.E.2d 603 (1952).

18 N.Y.—Mid-States Freight Lines v. Bates, 279 A.D. 451, 111 N.Y.S.2d 578 (3d Dep't 1952), judgment
aff'd, 304 N.Y. 700, 107 N.E.2d 603 (1952).

19 Wis.—State v. Yellow Freight System, Inc., 101 Wis. 2d 142, 303 N.W.2d 834 (1981).

As to vehicles subject to licensing and registration, generally, see § 187.

As to exemptions from motor vehicle licensing and registration requirements, generally, see § 188.

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