[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 49CFR177.870]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

   CHAPTER I--PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, 

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 177_CARRIAGE BY PUBLIC HIGHWAY--Table of Contents

 

 Subpart E_Regulations Applying to Hazardous Material on Motor Vehicles 

                      Carrying Passengers for Hire

 

Sec. 177.870  Regulations for passenger carrying vehicles.





    (a) Vehicles transporting passengers and property. In addition to 

the regulations in parts 170-189 of this subchapter the following 

requirements shall apply to vehicles transporting passengers and 

property.

    (b) No Class 1 (explosive) materials or other hazardous materials on 

passenger-carrying vehicles, exceptions. No hazardous materials except 

small-arms ammunition, emergency shipments of drugs, chemicals and 

hospital supplies, and the accompanying munitions of



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war of the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force of the United 

States Government, are authorized by parts 170-189 of this subchapter to 

be transported on motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire where 

other practicable means of transportation is available.

    (c) Class 1 (explosive) materials in passenger-carrying space 

forbidden. No Class 1 (explosive) material, except small-arms 

ammunition, may be carried in the passenger-carrying space of any motor 

vehicle transporting passengers for hire.

    (d) Hazardous materials on passenger carrying vehicles; quantity. 

Where no other practicable means of transportation is available the 

following articles in the quantities as shown may be transported in 

motor vehicles carrying passengers for hire in a space other than that 

provided for passengers: Not to exceed 45 kg (99 pounds) gross weight of 

any or all of the kinds of Class 1 (explosive) materials permitted to be 

transported by passenger-carrying aircraft or rail car may be 

transported on a motor vehicle transporting passengers: Provided, 

however, That samples of Class 1 (explosive) materials for laboratory 

examination, not to exceed two samples, or a total of no more than 100 

detonators, Division 1.4 (explosive) materials at one time in a single 

motor vehicle, may be transported in a motor vehicle transporting 

passengers.

    (e) Articles other than Class 1 (explosive) materials on passenger-

carrying vehicles. The gross weight of any given class of hazardous 

material other than Class 1 (explosive) materials shall not exceed 45 kg 

(99 pounds), and the aggregate weight of all such other dangerous 

articles shall not exceed 225 kg (496 pounds). This provision does not 

apply to nontoxic, nonflammable refrigerants, when such refrigerant is 

for servicing operations of a motor carrier on whose motor vehicles the 

refrigerant is used. A cylinder secured against shifting while in 

transit and not exceeding 113 kg (250 pounds) gross weight may be 

transported.

    (f) Division 6.1 (poisonous) or Division 2.3 (poisonous gas) 

materials on passenger-carrying vehicles. No motor carrier may transport 

any extremely dangerous Division 6.1 (poisonous) or Division 2.3 

(poisonous gas) material, or any paranitroaniline, in any amount, in or 

on any bus while engaged in the transportation of passengers; or any 

less dangerous Division 6.1 (poisonous) material, which is other than a 

liquid, in any amount exceeding an aggregate of 45 kg (99 pounds) gross 

weight in or on any such bus.

    (g) Class 7 (radioactive) materials. In addition to the limitations 

prescribed in paragraphs (b) and (e) of this section, no person may 

transport any Class 7 (radioactive) material requiring labels under 

Sec. Sec. 172.436, 172.438, and 172.440 of this subchapter in or on any 

motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire except where no other 

practicable means of transportation is available. Packages of Class 7 

(radioactive) materials must be stored only in the trunk or baggage 

compartment of the vehicle, and must not be stored in any compartment 

occupied by persons. Packages of Class 7 (radioactive) materials must be 

handled and placed in the vehicle as prescribed in Sec. 177.842.



[29 FR 18795, Dec. 29, 1964. Redesignated at 32 FR 5606, Apr. 5, 1967]



    Editorial Note: For Federal Register citations affecting Sec. 

177.870 see the List of CFR Sections Affected which appears in the 

Finding Aids section of the printed volume and on GPO Access.