(1) "Carrier" or "motor carrier" means for-hire carrier or private carrier.
(2) "Cartage carrier" means any person who undertakes to transport any class of property by motor vehicle for compensation when the transportation is performed wholly within an incorporated city or a commercial zone adjacent to an incorporated city.
(3) "Certificate" means an authority issued to a for-hire carrier under ORS 825.110.
(4) "Combined weight" means the weight of the motor vehicle plus the weight of the maximum load which the applicant has declared such vehicle will carry. Any declared combined weight is subject to audit and approval by the Department of Transportation.
(5) "Department" means the Department of Transportation.
(6) "Extreme miles" or "extreme mileage" means the total miles operated by a vehicle over the public highways, except the extra miles necessarily operated in traversing detours or temporary routes on account of road blockades in the state.
(7) "For-hire carrier" means:
(a) Any person who transports persons or property for hire or who publicly purports to be willing to transport persons or property for hire by motor vehicle; or
(b) Any person who leases, rents or otherwise provides a motor vehicle to the public and who in connection therewith in the regular course of business provides, procures or arranges for, directly, indirectly or by course of dealing, a driver or operator therefor.
(8) "Household goods" means the personal effects or other property used or to be used in a dwelling but does not include property transported from a store or factory or property exclusively for office use.
(9) "Motor vehicle" means any self-propelled vehicle and any such vehicle in combination with any trailing units, used or physically capable of being used upon any public highway in this state in the transportation of persons or property, except vehicles operating wholly on fixed rails or tracks and electric trolley buses. "Motor vehicle" includes overdimension vehicles or vehicles permitted excessive weights pursuant to a special authorization issued by a city, county or the Department of Transportation.
(10) "Permit" means an authority issued to a carrier under ORS 825.102, 825.106, 825.108 or 825.127.
(11) "Private carrier" means any person who operates a motor vehicle over the public highways of this state for the purpose of transporting persons or property when the transportation is incidental to a primary business enterprise, other than transportation, in which such person is engaged.
(12) "Privilege taxes" means the weight-mile tax and fees prescribed in this chapter.
(13) "Property" includes, but is not limited to, permanent loads such as equipment, appliances, devices, or ballast that are attached to, carried on, or made a part of the vehicle and that are designed to serve some functional purpose.
(14) "Public highway" means every street, alley, road, highway and thoroughfare in this state used by the public or dedicated or appropriated to public use.
(15) "Transit-type motor vehicle" means any passenger-carrying vehicle that does not have a separate space for transporting baggage or express.
(16) "Transporter" has the meaning given that term in ORS 466.005. [Formerly 767.005; 1997 c.275 §34; 2003 c.754 §1; 2007 c.465 §8; 2009 c.433 §1; 2015 c.138 §41; 2017 c.45 §2]
Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 19 - Utilities, Vehicle Code, Watercraft, Aviation
Section 825.005 - Definitions.
Section 825.017 - Nonapplicability of chapter to certain persons and vehicles.
Section 825.020 - Applicability of chapter to certain vehicles and combinations over 26,000 pounds.
Section 825.022 - Nonapplicability of certain provisions to vehicles and combinations.
Section 825.024 - Applicability to farm vehicles.
Section 825.028 - Transportation services for charitable organizations.
Section 825.032 - Nonapplicability of economic regulation to specified vehicles.
Section 825.102 - Issuance of permits to intrastate for-hire carriers; rules.
Section 825.108 - Issuance of permits to private carriers; exception.
Section 825.115 - Temporary authority to provide transportation services; duration.
Section 825.117 - Certificate for emergency transportation services.
Section 825.129 - Legal status of certificates.
Section 825.137 - Cancellation, revocation or suspension of authority, generally.
Section 825.160 - Liability insurance of carriers.
Section 825.162 - Cargo insurance.
Section 825.166 - Deposit of securities or letter of credit.
Section 825.168 - Self-insurance.
Section 825.180 - Application fee; transfer fee; refunds.
Section 825.200 - Rules and orders regarding uniform cargo liability and joint line rates.
Section 825.202 - Department’s authority over for-hire carriers of household goods.
Section 825.206 - Duties of interstate carriers.
Section 825.210 - Regulation of motor vehicles.
Section 825.212 - Regulation of mileage records; distinguishing marks.
Section 825.224 - Rate regulation of carriers of household goods.
Section 825.226 - Rating bureaus; rules.
Section 825.230 - Carrier to operate only in class for which authority issued; effect of violation.
Section 825.232 - General authority to prescribe and enforce rules and classifications.
Section 825.234 - Classes of carriers of household goods; filing of tariff.
Section 825.248 - Annual commercial motor vehicle safety plan.
Section 825.250 - Stop for inspection.
Section 825.254 - Limitation on movement of vehicles to particular days of week; rules.
Section 825.260 - Impoundment of vehicles unlawfully transporting hazardous wastes or substances.
Section 825.302 - Service of process on nonresident carrier by serving the department.
Section 825.326 - Motor Carrier Account; Consumer Protection Household Moves Account.
Section 825.330 - Restrictions on use of funds.
Section 825.402 - Participation in program.
Section 825.410 - Drug and alcohol testing program.
Section 825.415 - Drug and alcohol testing; school transportation provider.
Section 825.450 - Weight identifier; period of validity; rules.
Section 825.454 - Identification devices; applications.
Section 825.470 - Temporary pass; fees; rules.
Section 825.472 - Determination of filing of reports or payments.
Section 825.474 - Motor carrier tax for use of highways.
Section 825.475 - Exemption from motor carrier tax and fuel tax.
Section 825.476 - Carrier tax tables.
Section 825.480 - Substitute taxes for certain vehicles.
Section 825.482 - Review of flat fee rates.
Section 825.486 - Credit for fuel tax.
Section 825.492 - Annual and quarterly reports authorized.
Section 825.494 - Assessment by department upon failure to report tax or fee due.
Section 825.502 - Payment of taxes and fees by credit card; rules.
Section 825.504 - Warrant procedure for collecting tax, fee, penalty or assessment.
Section 825.506 - Deposit or bond to secure payment of fees, taxes, charges and penalties.
Section 825.507 - Limitations on cancellation of bond; suspension of authority.
Section 825.508 - Use of collection agency to obtain moneys due.
Section 825.509 - Writing off uncollected moneys due.
Section 825.515 - Daily records and monthly reports by carriers.
Section 825.517 - Certain records not public.
Section 825.550 - Multijurisdictional agreement for collection of weight-mile taxes; rules.
Section 825.555 - International fuel tax agreement; rules; fees.
Section 825.600 - Purpose of ORS 825.601 to 825.615.
Section 825.601 - Definitions.
Section 825.605 - Unlawfully idling the primary engine of a commercial vehicle; penalty.
Section 825.610 - Exemptions from requirements in ORS 825.605.
Section 825.615 - Preemption of local regulation of idling; exception.