2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 281 - MOTOR CARRIERS 281.600 Administrative functions and powers of department -- Farm equipment exempt from federal regulation -- Other motor vehicles exempt from federal regulation -- Department of Kentucky State Police to administer motor carrier safety management audit program.
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281.600 Administrative functions and powers of department -- Farm equipment
exempt from federal regulation -- Other motor vehicles exempt from federal
regulation -- Department of Kentucky State Police to administer motor carrier
safety management audit program.
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The Department of Vehicle Regulation shall exercise all administrative functions of
the state in relation to motor carrier transportation as defined in this chapter, and
shall apply, as far as practicable, the administrative and judicial interpretations of
acts administered by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and other
federal agencies under the United States Department of Transportation. It shall have
the right to regulate motor carriers as provided in this chapter and, to that end, may
establish reasonable requirements with respect to continuous and adequate service
of transportation, systems of accounts, records and reports, preservation of records,
and safety of operation and equipment. It may issue subpoenas, subpoenas duces
tecum and orders of personal attendance of witnesses, and production of pertinent
records for any proceeding before it, and permit the taking of depositions, all in
accord with the Rules of Civil Procedure, and it shall have the power to promulgate
administrative regulations as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of
this chapter. The department shall have the authority to promulgate regulations
regarding safety requirements for motor vehicles and the method of operation,
including the adoption of any of the federal motor carrier safety regulations and any
motor vehicle operating contrary to safety regulations shall be in violation of this
section.
The provisions established by the Federal Highway Administration in Title 49, Part
393 of the United States Code of Federal Regulations shall not apply to:
(a) A motor vehicle or its towed unit having a fertilizer spreader attachment
permanently mounted thereon, having a gross weight not to exceed thirty-six
thousand (36,000) pounds, and used only for the transportation of bulk
fertilizer; or
(b) A farm-wagon-type tank trailer of not more than two thousand (2,000) gallon
capacity used during liquid fertilizer season as a field storage tank supplying
fertilizer to a field applicator, and moved on a public highway for the purpose
of bringing fertilizer from a local source of supply to a farm or field, or from
one (1) farm or field to another, provided that the vehicle is being operated
solely in intrastate transportation.
The provisions established by the Federal Highway Administration in 49 C.F.R. sec.
390.21 and 49 C.F.R. pts. 391, 393, 395, and 396 shall not apply to a motor vehicle
registered under KRS 186.050(4)(a)1., or its towed unit, if:
(a) The vehicle is not engaged in interstate commerce;
(b) The vehicle is engaged in farming or agricultural related activities; and
(c) The gross vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, gross vehicle
combination weight, or gross vehicle combination weight rating of the vehicle
and its towed unit is twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds or less.
The provisions established by the Federal Highway Administration in 49 C.F.R.
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secs. 391.41 to 391.49 and 49 C.F.R. pt. 395 shall not apply to a motor vehicle
registered under KRS 186.050(3)(b), or its towed unit, if:
(a) The vehicle is not engaged in interstate commerce;
(b) The vehicle is not transporting hazardous materials required to be placarded in
accordance with 49 C.F.R. pt. 172;
(c) The vehicle is not designed or used to transport sixteen (16) or more
passengers, including the driver; and
(d) The gross vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, gross vehicle
combination weight, or gross vehicle combination weight rating of the vehicle
and its towed unit is twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds or less.
The Department of Kentucky State Police shall exercise all administrative functions
of the state pertaining to the motor carrier safety management audit program. This
program shall be administered according to the provisions of the Federal Motor
Carriers Safety Act and the federal regulations promulgated under that Act.
Effective: June 24, 2015
History: Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 19, sec. 3, effective June 24, 2015. -- Amended
2013 Ky. Acts ch. 81, sec. 1, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended 2011 Ky. Acts ch.
88, sec. 2, effective March 16, 2011. -- Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 16,
effective June 25, 2009. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 72, sec. 2, effective July 12,
2006. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 466, sec. 7, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended
1964 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. IV, sec. 20(2); and ch. 95, sec. 5. -- Amended 1962 Ky.
Acts ch. 63, sec. 2. -- Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 63, sec. 6, effective June 15, 1950.
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