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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
Ginger SELLERS
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Bonorabla L. W. Vanoe ~.~‘~
County Attorney :.~
Titus County ..~
Mt. Plaweat , Texao
barged with
mk in Eopb ,Arkanmm,
ad retails. Be oome6
8 and eauetlmoa de- .'
r without having
in his storage tank. Be states that
the produoto go through his storage.
have 4 truoks hauling aerohendlae to
end two truoks that deliver to the
He sells products both in Arkansas aod
i does not haul any one elw m~rohmdlse
but always buys the gaasoline at the refinery and
aella \t vhcrever ha may desire.
“Thei question arlaee a8 to uhether or not hs 1s
required to have a Motor Carrler’a Permit to pperato
hle trucks as stated above.*
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Hon.’L. 1. Yanoo, page 2
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The question presented Is whether or not the
transportation of petroleum produota under the olroumstanoea
&,ated in your letter la exempted iraa regulation under the
Pexas Motor Carrier Aot by that part of House Bill Jo. 25,
Chapter 290, Aote of the 47th Legislature, page 463 (Sea. la
(1) I Sea. la (1) (C) and Sea. lb of Art, glib, Vernon’s Annotated
01~11 Statutes), whloh roads as follower
*Sea. la (1) Provided, however, that the term
*Motor Carrier’ and the tsrm ‘Contraot Carrier’ a8
defined in the preoedlng seotlon ehell not be held
to lnolude: . . .
e(o) Rhere merely incidental to a regular.
separate, fixed, and established business, other than
a transpiaKon buithensmlon of
employees, petroleum produots, end incidental sup-
plleo used or sold in oonneotion with the wholesale
or retoll sale of euoh petroleum produote_from the
refinery or plaoe 0r produotion or place oistor3Pe
t th 0 place ofF@ra~e r plaoe or sale andiZ&
60 conaumG~ n a motor3ei
owned ana use mexolusively-by-thsmimrefiner
or ofned in whole or in pa? and used t~xoluslvely Ii-y
the bona fide oonalgnee or agent of kuoh single. mar-
~ketar or refiner; a8 well a(1 where merely lnoldsntel
to a regular, separate, fixed and, establlahed businea~
other than a transportation buaineas, the transporta-
tion 0r etroleum, employeea, meterlal,supplles, and
eGiiil@&r or use in the departments of the petroleum
business by the bona fide owner thcreor in a .vehlcle
of which h-he bona tide owner: bona ride oonir@er
or agent as used herein being hereby derlned and oon-
&rued, ior the purpose or thla Aot, to mean e person
under oontraot with a alnglo prlnolpal to dietribute
petroleum produots in a limited territory and only
ror suoh elngle prlnolpal; . . . .
Sea. lb. Any pereon who transport8 gooda, wares,
w mtrohandlae under the olroumatanoes set forth in the
foregoing Saotlon la 80 as to be exoluded by the terms
of said Section from tba deilnltion of ‘motor carrier’
or ‘oontraot oarrier’ ehall be deemed to be a private
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motor &hiole owner; and euoh use or the hlu>wapr
by such private motor vehicle Owners, as herein
detincd, shell be oonstrued (IS wo of the hlgbwags
ror the general publlo and not tiie use af euoh
highways for the oarrylng on the buelaeaa of trana-
porting property for oompenziatlon or hire.”
The oaption 0r thI# not Mada aa r0umfat
@An Aot amending Chapter 277, Aota of the
Regular Session of the Forty-second Leglalature
aa heretofore amended, by adding %otione la end
lb thereto; excepting from the definition of ‘Motor
Carrier’ and ‘Oontraot Carrier’ oertela persona,
rirms, and oorporatione,; exempting certain peraon8,
rlrms, and corporations transporting under oertain
olrcumetanoee and oondltlons their own ewloyees,
property or property In whloh they have an lntererrt
as oonelgnee or agent; deilaing a private motor
vehiole owner ‘, exempting private motor vehlole
owners rrom said AOti providing f QT the repeal of
all laws end parts of laws in oonfllot with this
AOti providing that ii any eeotion, olauee or pro-
vielone or thla Aot be held unoonatitutlonal or
invalid, it ,&all not affeot the remainlog portion68
and, deolarlng an Omerg~O~~’
The oapilon matie It oleir that the purpose Or this
Aot was tc exempt certain persona transporting under oertaln
conditions their own property irae the provielona ot the Motor
Carrier Act. The peram mehtloned 3n your letter ;waa trans-
porting *petroleum” ee en lnoldont “to a regular, separate,
fixed and established bualnese.” He Is not engaged in the
“tranepor*atlon buelneae* a8 suoh and the “petroleuma whloh
he ii transporting belongs to hlm. Aleb, he is the bona tide
owner or the vehloles in which the petroleum 1s being trans-
ported. The word npetroleum* includes gasoline, United !?tatee
va, Fletqhcr, B?F. !3pp. 238. Thea? raote would acem to be
eurrlolent to bring the persaa oharged witbin the seoond pert
oi the exemption as set out in subdlvlaion (0) .quoted above.
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Hon.-L. W. Vanoo, pago 4
Tho person ohargod is also a %arketer*
rfthin the meaning oi that term as used in the iirst
part of the exemption as set out In eubdlvielon (o),
quoted above. The term *marketer* hoe been ooneldered
by tile department in one of our ptilor opinions, being
Opinion No. o-5851. It was there said:
Webster defines ‘Marketer’ a8 one who
ettende a market to buy or sell; one who oarrles
goods to. market.
We ‘do not reel that WIL)would ‘bo juatlrled in
aooedlng to the view that *marketer* .as here used
la synonymous with ‘carrier.’ First, because the
Legislature throughout this Aot repeatedly says
that tb~e transportation must ba incidental to a
business other than a transportation tiuslnass. And
in the aeocnd plaoo ‘marketing’ la ordinary usage
OOMOteB more than tranSQOrtatiOn, For BXSmple, in
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its latest oataloguo the Sohool ot Business Admln-
lstratlon of the University of Texea divides its
subjeots under thirteen major haads, lnoludlfig
Warketlng* and *Traneportatlon and Induatry’i nn-
der ‘Marketing’ it lists a dozen oourees dealing
with consumer purohaelng, ealesmanahlp, retailing,
wholesali.ng, chain store systems, oooperatlve
ohalne but not with trensportatlon. Under *frana-
portatlon and Industry’ ere listed transportation
ooursea ln air, potor and water tranaportetlon.
From the Columbia Enoyolopedla*s colependlum on
marketing we quote the following:
lYerketlog la .promoted by saleamanshlp
and by advertising. Mall-order houses sol1
by o~ataloguo at retail, eapeoially the rural
buyers. Some products ere m*zketed by houso
to house canvassing. ~Chain stores ollmlnato
some of the expense of marketing by oambln-
lug retall ~eales with wholecaelo purohasos
or with manufaoturlng. Cooperative organiza-
tions of ooneumers end of produoere as rar-
mere’, seek el&o to dlmlnleh the spread ln
market lng. ’
“The term %mrketlng* sssumea the exlstenoe of
tredo so buying and selling era neoeaeary lnoldents
to ‘marketing’. 38 CL J. 1254, 1259,
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*'TO market* has been defined ~udlola~fi~
and by lerioogrsphrrr aa ‘to buy or sell;
to sell in II mrket*. Bardina 0. 3x1 Ssba
National Bank, 13 5. W. (2d) 121,. 122.”
You em tbsreforo advised that ia our opinion the
perion oharged,untler the taots eet cut in your letter, is
not required to have a permit Prom the Texeb RaIlroad Con+
nie5ion. .
7% are not here pasdng on the question of whether
the person charged might be proseouted under Federal Law. The
Federal JTotor Carrier Aot of 1935 (49 U. F. 0. A. So. 306)
require8 6 oert~floete oS convenience en4 neoessitg for Bornon
eerrler r.otor rehlolos engaged in Interstate oomeroa. This
certificate Is lssuad bg the Interetate Comeror Comnlssioa in
Wwhlngton, D. 0.
Twitting that the f&going a&err your inquiry,
we are,
Tours very truly,
A!ITORNET OWERAL OF TEXAS
Fagaa Diokaoa
Assistant.
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