RS 45:177

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RS 45:177

§177. Exemptions; policy or bond

Nothing in R.S. 45:173 through 45:176 shall apply to motor vehicles operated:

(1)In transporting school children and teachers;

(2)In hauling farm products exclusively;

(3)Exclusively for transporting workers to and from any factory or mill located in this state;

(4)For hotel passengers or baggage when used exclusively for its patrons and employees;

(5)And owned by the United States, District of Columbia, any state or any political subdivision of this state;

(6)Or owned, leased, used, or controlled by any farmer, group of farmers or any legally incorporated farmer-owned and controlled cooperative association while engaged in the transportation of his or its agricultural commodities and products, or in the transportation of supplies to his farm, or the farms of the members of such association;

(7)By electric power derived from a fixed overhead wire, furnishing local passenger transportation similar to street railway service;

(8)Exclusively in carrying fruit, live stock poultry products, buttermilk, fresh milk and cream, meats, butter and cheese, produced on the farm, fish (including shell fish), cotton, cotton seed, cotton seed hulls and cotton seed meal, other horticultural or agricultural commodities (not including manufactured products thereof), naval stores and forest products, including lumber, raw materials used in the manufacture of naval stores (but not including manufactured products thereof) from the point of production to market and between any of the following points: farm, market, gin, warehouse, or mill, while the title is still in the producer, and where the net load does not exceed eighteen thousand pounds. "Other agricultural and horticultural commodities" shall include fertilizer, household goods and other supplies transported to farms and dairies for farm and dairy purposes;

(9)Exclusively in the distribution of newspapers;

(10)Exclusively in hauling for the state highway department, or for any parish, city or town in this state;

(11)Exclusively in hauling gravel or other unmanufactured road building material;

(12)In the transportation of persons or property operating under the authority of a municipal ordinance wholly within a municipality or between contiguous municipalities, or within a zone adjacent to and commercially a part of such municipality or municipalities but not exceeding seven miles from the corporate limits, except when such transportation is under a common control, management or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment to or from a point without such municipality, municipalities, or zone.