(1) Vehicles being used exclusively in the transportation of United States mail on a trip basis.
(2) Vehicles being used in the transportation of persons for hire, in vehicles with a seating capacity of more than five persons, within a city and within three air miles of the city. When the three air mile radius extends into the corporate limits of another city, the two cities shall be considered as one city for the purposes of this subsection. The following apply to this subsection:
(a) Service may also be provided to or from any area surrounding the area described under this subsection so long as the service does not compete with a carrier granted authority by the Department of Transportation under this chapter to operate in that surrounding area.
(b) Any vehicle exempt from the provisions of this chapter under this subsection is subject to regulation by the city or cities in which it is operated.
(3) Vehicles being used for the purpose of transporting persons or property in connection with the patrolling of forests for the prevention or fighting of forest fires.
(4) Vehicles being used in towing or otherwise transporting vehicles at the direction of a police officer or in servicing, towing or transporting wrecked or disabled vehicles, or in towing or transporting a replacement vehicle for such wrecked or disabled vehicle if the vehicle:
(a) Is not otherwise used in transporting goods and merchandise for compensation; and
(b) In the case of towing, is specially constructed for that use or has a combined weight not exceeding 8,000 pounds.
(5) Vehicles being used by a for-hire carrier to transport within this state free or at reduced rates:
(a) The carrier’s officers, agents or employees, or dependent members of the families of those individuals, or the personal effects or household goods of those individuals.
(b) Ministers of religions, inmates of hospitals and individuals exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work.
(c) Indigent, destitute and homeless individuals and the necessary agents employed in the transportation.
(d) Witnesses attending legal investigations in which the carrier is interested.
(e) Persons injured in wrecks and physicians and nurses attending those persons.
(f) Persons providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence or other emergency.
(g) Persons traveling under commuter, party or excursion passenger tickets, if available to all persons applying under like circumstances or conditions.
(h) Persons traveling under an exchange of passes between for-hire carriers.
(6) Vehicles being used to transport plants, artificial and natural flowers and accompanying florist accessories in movements originating at retail shops.
(7) Any vehicle used by a person licensed under ORS 508.235 while the person is transporting the person’s own, unsold catch of fish from the point of landing to the first point where fish from the catch will be sold, placed in storage or processed in any way.
(8) Vehicles owned or operated by truck leasing companies operated empty over the public highways for the purpose of relocation of equipment. This exemption does not apply to motor vehicles operated empty as a result of or for the purpose of transporting passengers or property. [Formerly 767.027; 2007 c.31 §4]
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.