Okla. Admin. Code § 165:30-1-2

Current through Vol. 42, No. 4, November 1, 2024
Section 165:30-1-2 - Definitions

In addition to terms defined in 47 O.S., Sections 161 through 180m et seq., the Oklahoma Transportation Network Company Services Act and the Motor Carrier Act of 1995, the following words or terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"110% rule" means the household goods carrier must deliver the shipper's goods once the shipper pays 110% of the estimated or agreed upon charges.

"Alliance" means the Alliance for Uniform Hazardous Material Transportation Procedures, a confederation of state, local industry and environmental representatives for the purpose of administering and enforcing a uniform hazardous materials transporters program as established by HMTUSA.

"Accessorial services" means services provided by an intrastate motor carrier of household goods at the request of a shipper that may be in addition to the actual transportation of the household goods. Examples of accessorial services are packing, unpacking, appliance servicing, loading/unloading of large items (such as a piano), climbing/descending stairs, demurrage, etc.

"Audit" means an examination of records, source documents and any other information supporting a regulated entity's application or return; or a review performed by staff as a result of a complaint or prior enforcement actions taken.

"Authority" means a general term referring to permission issued by the Commission to a motor carrier to perform operations under the jurisdiction of the Commission. The term authority is not applicable to vehicle registrations, fuel licenses or permits, or TNC permits.

"Base state" means the state selected by a motor carrier according to the procedures established by a uniform program

"Binding estimate" means a written agreement made in advance between the intrastate household goods carrier and the shipper which guarantees the total cost of the transportation of the household goods based upon the quantities and services shown on the estimate.

"CFR" means the Code of Federal Regulations.

"Consignee" means the person or place shown on the shipping documentation as the location to which a carrier is directed to deliver a shipment.

"Consignor" means the person who offers goods for shipment.

"Commission" means the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.

"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.

"Deleterious substance" means any chemical, salt water, oil field brine, waste oil, waste emulsified oil, basic sediment, mud or injurious substances produced or used in the drilling, development, production, transportation, refining and processing of oil, gas and/or brine mining.

"Environmental restoration" means restitution for loss, damage, or destruction of natural resources arising out of the accidental discharge, dispersal, release or escape into or upon the land, atmosphere, watercourse, or body of water, of any commodity transported by a motor carrier. This includes the cost of removal and the cost of necessary measures taken to minimize or mitigate damage to human health, the natural environment, fish, shellfish and wildlife.

"Exceeding authority" means a motor carrier operating outside or beyond the purview of an issued license, certificate, permit, registration or other authority issued by the Commission or a reciprocal state.

"FMCSA" means the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

"For-hire motor carrier" means a person operating upon any public highway engaged in the transportation of property or passengers for compensation or consideration or for commercial purposes.

"Gross Combination Weight Rating" (GCWR) means the value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a combination (articulated) vehicle. In the absence of a value specified by the manufacturer, GCWR will be determined by adding the GVWR of the power unit and the total weight of the towed unit and any load thereon.

"Gross Vehicle Weight" (GVW) means the registered weight of the vehicle or any lawful registered combination weight (Gross Combination Weight or GCW).

"Gross Vehicle Weight Rating" (GVWR) means the value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a single vehicle (gross vehicle weight rating) and may include any lawful combination.

"Harvest permit" means a document issued by the Commission to a motor carrier engaging in the commercial transportation of farm products in a raw state. A harvest permit encompasses vehicle registration, fuel permit and intrastate operating authority requirements of the State of Oklahoma.

"Hazardous waste" means any material that is subject to the "Hazardous Waste Manifest Requirements" of the United States Environmental Protection Agency specified in Title 40, CFR, Part 262.

"Hazardous waste permit" means the document issued by a participating state which represents a specific motor carrier's registration to transport hazardous waste in states that participate in the uniform hazardous waste program.

"HMTUSA" means the Hazardous Materials Transportation Uniform Safety Act of 1990.

"Household goods" means the used personal effects and property of a dwelling.

"Hunter's permit orUnladen permit" means a permit that provides temporary registration to an apportionable vehicle at the unladen (empty) weight of the vehicle. It is commonly used by a vehicle lessor to move a vehicle, without any load, to another jurisdiction so the lessor can establish a new contractual relationship with a different motor carrier.

"Identification device" means an annual, fee-paid, nontransferable device issued by the Commission to be carried in each and every vehicle.

"IFTA" means the International Fuel Tax Agreement. The IFTA is a motor fuel use tax reciprocity agreement between the United States contiguous states and certain Canadian provinces which allows a licensee to report and pay motor fuel use taxes to a base jurisdiction for distribution to other member jurisdictions in which the licensee traveled and incurred motor fuel use tax liability.

"Intercorporate hauling" means the transportation of property, passengers or household goods by motor vehicle, for compensation, by a carrier which is a member of a corporate family, as defined in this Section, when said transportation for compensation is provided for other members of the corporate family.

"Interstate" means a shipment having an origin or destination into, out of or through two or more states.

"Intrastate" means a shipment having an origin and destination wholly within one state.

"IRP" means the International Registration Plan. . The IRP is a commercial vehicle registration reciprocity agreement between the United States contiguous states and certain Canadian providences which allows a registrant to pay and report commercial vehicle registration fees to a base jurisdiction for distribution to other member jurisdictions in which the registrant travels.

"IVDR" means an Individual Vehicle Distance Record which is a document where the required operational information, as set forth by IRP and IFTA, can be recorded.

"Letter of filing" means a document issued by the Commission to a motor carrier as evidence of temporary compliance with the hazardous waste uniform program.

"Motor carrier" means a for-hire motor carrier or a private motor carrier operating in interstate or intrastate commerce.

"Motor License Agent (MLA)" means any person meeting the requirements for appointment as a motor license agent pursuant to 47 O.S. § 1140 and authorized by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to process vehicle registrations, collect associated fees and issue credentials pursuant to the IRP and the Oklahoma Vehicle License and Registration Act (47 O.S. Chapter 74).

"NAIC" means the National Association of Insurance Commissions.

"Non-binding estimate" means the estimated total cost to transport household goods intrastate based upon the weight of the shipment, volume of the shipment, amount of time to perform the movement and/or any accessorial services requested.

"OTNCS Act" means the Oklahoma Transportation Network Company Services Act, 47 O.S. § 1010 et seq.

"Participating state" means a state electing to participate in a uniform program by entering into a base state agreement.

"PIN" means personal identification number.

"Principal place of business" means a single location that serves as the motor carrier's headquarters and where it maintains or can make available its operational records.

"Private motor carrier" means a person who operates a commercial motor vehicle and is not a for-hire motor carrier.

"Process agent" means a representative upon whom court papers may be served in any proceeding brought against a motor carrier, broker, or freight forwarder.

"Registration" means the identification of hazardous waste transporters through a national base state system.

"Reciprocal state" means a jurisdiction with which the Commission has entered into a reciprocal agreement regarding the uniform registration, licensing or permitting of motor carriers.

"Shipper" means a person authorized to tender a shipment to a carrier and may include, but is not limited to, a consignor, consignee or beneficial owner of the shipment.

"TNC" means a Transportation Network Company.

"Trip permit" means a temporary authorization issued by the Commission granting permission to conduct operations as a motor carrier in intrastate and/or interstate commerce.

"Truck yard pit" means any pit used to store or catch fluids or wash fluids in a truck terminal or maintenance facility as the result of transportation related activities.

"UCR" means Unified Carrier Registration.

"Uniform application" means a uniform motor carrier registration, licensing or permit application form established under a uniform program.

"Uniform program" means any law, rule, policy, practice and/or all combinations thereof which pertain to the regulation of motor carriers by motor vehicle operating in interstate or intrastate commerce over the highways of Oklahoma and is recognized, adopted and enforced or administered by the Transportation Division only when in concert and reciprocal with one or more states which adopt, recognize, administer and enforce the exact same rule, law, policy, practice and/or all combinations thereof.

"Unprocessed agricultural commodities" means all products raised or produced by tillage and cultivation of the soil, pasture grasses, orchard products, trees in their raw state and products produced by livestock (such as milk, wool, eggs, honey and manure). The term also includes those products embraced within the above definition which have been processed for purposes of handling, storage, preservation or transportation (such as washing, cleaning, wrapping, packaging, boxing, baling, trimming, drying, sorting, sizing, grading, cooling, spraying and fumigating). The term does not include those products embraced within the above definition which, as a result of some treatment or processing, have been so changed that they are no longer in their natural or raw state, but possess new forms, qualities, or properties or result in combinations.

"USDOT" means the United States Department of Transportation.

Okla. Admin. Code § 165:30-1-2

Amended at 10 Ok Reg 4447, eff 1-1-94 (emergency); Amended at 10 Ok Reg 4497, eff 1-1-94 (emergency); Amended at 11 Ok Reg 3727, eff 7-11-94; Amended at 11 Ok Reg 3735, eff 7-11-94; Amended at 12 Ok Reg 1005, eff 1-1-95 (emergency); Amended at 12 Ok Reg 2077, eff 7-1-95; Amended at 13 Ok Reg 247, eff 11-1-95 (emergency); Amended at 13 Ok Reg 2419, eff 7-1-96; Amended at 14 Ok Reg 1251, eff 5-12-97; Amended at 14 Ok Reg 2539, eff 7-1-97; Amended at 15 Ok Reg 3041, eff 7-15-98; Amended at 18 Ok Reg 23, eff 10-11-00 (emergency); Amended at 18 Ok Reg 2384, eff 7-1-01; Amended at 23 Ok Reg 2325, eff 7-1-06; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 1814, eff 7-1-07; Amended at 25 Ok Reg 1546, eff 7-1-08; Amended at 27 Ok Reg 1773, eff 7-1-10
Amended by Oklahome Register, Volume 33, Issue 23, August 15, 2016, eff. 9/1/2016
Amended by Oklahoma Register, Volume 34, Issue 24, September 1, 2017, eff. 9/11/2017