00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 232                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to commercial motor vehicles and exempting certain vehicles from                                       
02 certain requirements related to commercial motor vehicles."                                                             
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 19.10.399(1) is amended to read:                                                                   
05                 (1)  "commercial motor vehicle" means a self-propelled or towed                                         
06       vehicle                                                                                                           
07                      (A)  used to transport passengers or property for commercial                                       
08            purposes;                                                                                                    
09                      (B)  used upon a highway or vehicular way; and                                                     
10                      (C)  that                                                                                          
11                           (i)  has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross                                               
12                 combination weight rating greater than 26,000 [10,000] pounds;                                      
13                           (ii)  is designed to transport more than 15 passengers,                                       
14                 including the driver; or                                                                                

01                           (iii)  is used in the transportation of materials found by                                    
02                 the United States Secretary of Transportation to be hazardous for                                       
03                 purposes of 49 U.S.C. 5101 - 5128;                                                                      
04                      (D)  except that the following vehicles meeting the criteria in                                    
05            (A) - (C) of this paragraph are not commercial motor vehicles:                                               
06                           (i)  emergency or fire equipment that is necessary to the                                     
07                 preservation of life or property;                                                                       
08                           (ii)  farm vehicles that are controlled and operated by a                                     
09                 farmer; used to transport agricultural products, farm machinery, or farm                                
10                 supplies to or from that farmer's farm; not used in the operations of a                                 
11                 common or contract motor carrier; and used within 150 miles of the                                      
12                 farmer's farm;                                                                                          
13                           (iii)  school buses;                                                                          
14                           (iv)  vehicles owned and operated by the federal                                              
15                 government unless the vehicle is used to transport property of the                                      
16                 general public for compensation in competition with other persons who                                   
17                 own or operate a commercial motor vehicle subject to AS 19.10.310 -                                     
18                 19.10.399, and except to the extent that regulation of vehicles operated                                
19                 by the federal government is permitted by federal law; [AND]                                            
20                           (v)  vehicles used exclusively for purposes other than                                        
21                 commercial purposes; and                                                                            
22                           (vi)  vehicles owned and operated by a contractor                                         
23                 licensed under AS 08.18, or an administrator licensed under                                         
24                 AS 08.40, and having a gross vehicle weight rating or gross                                         
25                 combination weight rating of less that 40,000 pounds;