2006 Ohio Revised Code - 4919.75. Definitions.

§ 4919.75. Definitions.
 

As used in sections 4919.75 to 4919.79 of the Revised Code: 

(A) "Public highway" means any public street, road, highway, or thoroughfare in this state, whether within or without the corporate limits of a municipal corporation. 

(B) "Motor carrier" includes both a common carrier of property or passengers by motor vehicle and a contract carrier of property or passengers by motor vehicle. 

(C) "Motor vehicle" means any truck or tractor, including any other self-propelled or motor driven vehicle, that is operated upon any public highway of this state for the purpose of transporting property or passengers for hire. 

(D) "Common carrier by motor vehicle" or "common carrier" includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock association, person, firm, or copartnership, and their lessees, legal or personal representatives, trustees, and receivers or trustees appointed by any court, when engaged or proposing to engage in the business of transporting property or passengers, or the business of providing or furnishing such transportation service, for hire, whether directly or by lease or other arrangement, for the public in general, in or by motor-propelled vehicles of any kind, including trailers, over any public highway in this state. 

(E) "Contract carrier by motor vehicle" or "contract carrier" includes every corporation, company, association, joint-stock association, person, firm, or copartnership, their lessees, legal or personal representatives, trustees, or receivers or trustees appointed by any court, not included in the definition under division (D) of this section, when engaged in the business of private carriage of property or passengers, or provingÅ or furnishing such transportation service, for hire, in or by motor-propelled vehicles of any kind, including trailers, over any public highway in this state. 
 

HISTORY: 135 v H 822 (Eff 2-1-75); 145 v H 152. Eff 7-1-93.
 

Å So in enrolled bill, division (E).