[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
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.