§47-230.23.

§47-230.23.
   
   As used in the Motor Carrier Act of 1995:
   
   1. "Person" means any individual, firm, copartnership, limited
   partnership, corporation, limited liability corporation, company,
   association, or joint-stock association and includes any trustee,
   receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof;
   
   2. "Commission" means the Oklahoma Corporation Commission;
   
   3. "License" means the license issued under authority of the laws of
   the State of Oklahoma to motor carriers and private carriers;
   
   4. "Interstate Registration Certificate" (IRC) means a document issued
   by the Commission granting permission to operate upon the highways of
   the State of Oklahoma in interstate commerce exempt from federal motor
   carrier regulation;
   
   5. "Motor vehicle" means any automobile, truck, truck-tractor, trailer
   or semitrailer or any motor bus or any self-propelled vehicle not
   operated or driven upon fixed rails or tracks;
   
   6. "Motor carrier of persons or property" means any person, except a
   carrier of household goods or used emigrant movables, operating upon
   any public highway for the transportation of passengers or property
   for compensation or for hire or for commercial purposes, and not
   operating exclusively within the limits of an incorporated city or
   town within this state. Provided, the provisions of the Motor Carrier
   Act of 1995 shall not apply to the following vehicles and equipment
   when such vehicles and equipment are being used for the following:
   
   a. cabs and bus companies engaged in the transportation of passengers
   and their baggage, not operated between two or more cities and towns,
   when duly licensed by a municipal corporation in which they might be
   doing business,
   
   b. any person or governmental authority furnishing transportation for
   school children to and from public schools or to and from
   public-school-related extracurricular activities under contract with,
   and sponsored by, a public school board; provided, that motor vehicles
   and equipment operated for the purposes shall qualify in all respects
   for the transportation of school children under the Oklahoma School
   Code and the rules of the State Board of Education adopted pursuant
   thereto.
   
   c. transport trucks transporting liquefied petroleum gases intrastate
   which are owned or operated by a person subject to and licensed by the
   Oklahoma Liquefied Petroleum Gas Regulation Act,
   
   d. transportation of livestock and farm products in the raw state,
   when any of such commodities move from farm to market or from market
   to farm on a vehicle or on vehicles owned and operated by a bona fide
   farmer not engaged in motor vehicle transportation on a commercial
   scale, and
   
   e. tour buses as defined by Section 1171 of this title;
   
   7. "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;
   
   8. "Intercorporate hauling" means the transportation of property, by
   motor vehicle, for compensation, by a carrier which is a member of a
   corporate family, as defined in the Motor Carrier Act of 1995, when
   the transportation for compensation is provided for other members of
   the corporate family;
   
   9. "Private carrier" means any person engaged in transportation upon
   public highways, of persons or property, or both, but not as a motor
   carrier, and includes any person who transports property by motor
   vehicle where such transportation is incidental to or in furtherance
   of any commercial enterprise of such person, other than
   transportation;
   
   10. "Market" means the point at which livestock and farm products in
   the raw state were first delivered by the producer of the livestock
   and farm products in the raw state, upon the sale thereof;
   
   11. "Public highway" means every public street, road or highway, or
   thoroughfare in this state, used by the public, whether actually
   dedicated to the public and accepted by the proper authorities or
   otherwise; and
   
   12. "Commercial enterprise" means all undertakings entered into for
   private gain or compensation, including all industrial pursuits,
   whether the undertakings involve the handling of or dealing in
   commodities for sale or otherwise.