[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR372.115]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 372_EXEMPTIONS, COMMERCIAL ZONES, AND TERMINAL AREAS--Table of 
Contents
 
                          Subpart A_Exemptions
 
Sec.  372.115  Commodities that are not exempt under 49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6).

    49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6) provides an exemption from regulation for 
motor vehicles used in carrying ordinary livestock, fish, and 
unmanufactured agricultural commodities. Certain specific commodities 
have been statutorily determined to be non-exempt. Administrative Ruling 
No. 133, which is reproduced below, is a list of those commodities that 
are non-exempt by statute.

                      Administrative Ruling No. 133

   List of Commodities That Are Not Exempt by Statute Under 49 U.S.C. 
                               13506(a)(6)

Animal fats
Butter
Canned fruits and vegetables
Carnauba wax as imported in slabs or chunks
Cattle, slaughtered
Charcoal
Cheese
Coal
Cocoa beans
Coffee, beans, roasted, or instant
Copra meal
Cotton yarn
Cottonseed cake or meal
Diatomaceous earth
Dinners, frozen

Feeds:


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    Alfalfa meal
    Alfalfa pellets
    Beet pulp
    Bran shorts
    Copra meal
    Corn gluten
    Distilled corn grain residues, with or without solubles added
    Fish meal
    Hominy feed
    Middlings
    Pelletized ground refuse screenings
    Wheat bran
    Wheat shorts

Fertilizer, commercial

Fish:

    Canned or salted as a treatment for preserving
    Cooked or partially cooked fish or shrimp, frozen or unfrozen
    Hermetically sealed in containers as a treatment for preserving
    Oil from fishes
    Preserved, or treated for preserving, such as smoked, salted, 
pickled, spiced, corned or kippered

Flagstone
Flaxseed meal
Flour

Forest products:

    Resin products, such as turpentine

Fruits and Berries:

    Bananas, fresh, dried, dehydrated, or frozen
    Canned
    Frozen
    Hulls of oranges after juice extractions
    Juice, fruit, plain or concentrated
    Pies, frozen
    Preserved, such as jam
    Purees, strawberry and other, frozen

Grains:

    Oils extracted from grain
    Popcorn, popped
    Rice, precooked
    Wheat germ

Gravel
Hair, hog or other animal, product of slaughter of animal
Hay, sweetened with 3 percent molasses by weight
Hemp fiber
Hides, green and salted
Insecticides
Limestone, agricultural

Livestock:

    Monkeys
    Race horses
    Show horses
    Zoo animals

Lumber, rough sawed or planed
Maple syrup

Meal:

    Alfalfa
    Copra
    Cottonseed
    Fish
    Flaxseed
    Linseed
    Peanut
    Soybean

Meat and meat products, fresh, frozen or canned

Milk and Cream:

    Chocolate
    Condensed
    Sterilized in hermetically sealed cans

Molasses

Nuts (including peanuts):

    Peanut meal
    Roasted or boiled

Oil, mint
Oil, extracted from vegetables, grain, seed, fish or other commodity
Pelts
Pies, frozen
Pigeons, racing
Pulp, beet
Pulp, sugar cane
Rock (except natural crushed, vesicular rock to be used for decorative 
          purposes)
Rubber, crude, in bales
Rubber, latex, natural, liquid, from which water has been extracted and 
          to which ammonia has been added
Sand

Seeds:

    Oil extracted from seeds

Skins, animal
Soil, potting
Soil, top
Soup, frozen
Sugar
Sugar cane pulp
Sugar raw
Syrup, cane
Syrup, maple
Tea

Tobacco:

    Cigars and cigarettes
    Homogenized
    Smoking

Top Soil

Trees:

    Sawed into lumber

Vegetables:

    Candied sweet potatoes, frozen
    Canned
    Cooked
    French fried potatoes
    Oil, extracted from vegetables
    Soup, frozen
    Soybean meal


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Wool imported from a foreign country
Wool tops and noils
Wool waste (carded, spun, woven, or knitted)
Wool yarn

    Note 1: Under 49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)(D), any listed fish or shellfish 
product that is not intended for human consumption is exempt.
    Note 2: Under 49 U.S.C. 13506(a)(6)(E), any listed livestock feed, 
poultry feed, agricultural seeds, or plants that are transported to a 
site of agricultural production or to a business enterprise engaged in 
the sale to agricultural producers of goods used in agricultural 
production is exempt

[53 FR 17707, May 18, 1988, as amended at 62 FR 15421, Apr. 1, 1997]