Section 23-13-601 - DefinitionsAs used in this subchapter:
(1) "Broker" means a person other than a motor carrier or an employee or agent of a motor carrier that as a principal or an agent sells, offers for sale, negotiates for, or holds itself out by solicitation, advertisement, or otherwise as selling, providing, or arranging for transportation by motor carrier for compensation;(2) "Commercial motor vehicle" means a self-propelled or towed vehicle used on the highways in commerce principally to transport passengers or cargo if the vehicle: (A) Has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of at least ten thousand one pounds (10,001 lbs.), whichever is greater;(B) Is designed to transport more than ten (10) passengers including the driver; or(C) Is used in transporting material found by the United States Secretary of Transportation to be hazardous under 49 U.S.C. § 5103, as it existed on January 1, 2007, and transported in a quantity requiring placarding under regulations prescribed by the secretary under 49 U.S.C. § 5103, as it existed on January 1, 2007;(3) "Freight forwarder" means a person holding itself out to the general public other than as a pipeline, rail, motor, or water carrier to provide transportation of property for compensation and in the ordinary course of its business: (A) Assembles and consolidates, or provides for assembling and consolidating, shipments and performs or provides for break-bulk and distribution operations of the shipments;(B) Assumes responsibility for the transportation from the place of receipt to the place of destination; and(C)(i) Uses for any part of the transportation a carrier subject to jurisdiction under 49 U.S.C. § 10101 et seq., as it existed on January 1, 2007.(ii) "Freight forwarder" does not include a person using transportation of an air carrier subject to 49 U.S.C. § 40101 et seq., as it existed on January 1, 2007;(4) "Leasing company" means a lessor that is engaged in the business of leasing or renting for compensation motor vehicles without drivers to a motor carrier, motor private carrier, or freight forwarder;(5) "Motor carrier" means a person providing commercial motor vehicle transportation for compensation; and(6) "Motor private carrier" means a person other than a motor carrier transporting property by commercial motor vehicle when:(A) The transportation is interstate commerce as provided in 49 U.S.C. § 13501, as it existed on January 1, 2007;(B) The person is the owner, lessee, or bailee of the property being transported; and(C) The property is being transported for sale, lease, rent, or bailment or to further a commercial enterprise.