{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-281.605","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 281.605","heading":"Exemption of motor vehicles used for certain purposes.","body":"The provisions of this chapter shall not apply, except as to safety regulations, to:\n(1) Motor vehicles used as school buses and while engaged in the transportation of\nstudents, under the supervision and control and at the direction of school\nauthorities;\n(2) Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this subsection, motor vehicles, regardless of\nownership, used exclusively:\n(a) For the transportation of agricultural and dairy products, including fruit,\nlivestock, meats, fertilizer, wood, lumber, cotton, produ cts of grove or\norchard, poultry, and eggs, while owned by the producer of the products,\nincluding landlord where the relation of landlord and tenant or landlord and\ncropper is involved, from the farm to a market, warehouse, dairy, or mill, or\nfrom one (1) market, warehouse, dairy, or mill to another market, warehouse,\ndairy, or mill. As used in this paragraph and in paragraph (b) of this\nsubsection, \"livestock\" means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas,\nllamas, buffaloes, or any other animals of t he bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine,\nequine, or camelid species;\n(b) For the transportation of agricultural and dairy products, livestock, farm\nmachinery, feed, fertilizer, and other materials and supplies essential to farm\noperation, from market or shipping terminal to farm;\n(c) For both the purposes described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection;\n(d) For the transportation of agricultural and dairy products from farm to regularly\norganized fairs and exhibits and return; or\n(e) Motor vehicles used f or the transportation of fly ash, in bags, sacks, or other\ncontainers, the aggregate weight of which does not exceed ten thousand\n(10,000) pounds; or bottom ash, waste ash, sludge, and pozatec which is being\nremoved from the premises of a power generator f acility for the purpose of\ndisposal;\n(3) Motor vehicles used exclusively as church buses and while operated in the\ntransportation of persons to and from a church or place of worship or for other\nreligious work under the supervision and control and at the d irection of church\nauthorities;\n(4) Motor vehicles used exclusively for the transportation of property belonging to a\nnonprofit cooperative association or its members where the vehicle is owned or\nleased exclusively by the association;\n(5) Motor vehicles owned in whole or in part by any person and used by such person to\ntransport commodities of which such person is the bona fide owner, lessee,\nconsignee, or bailee; provided, however, that such transportation is for the purpose\nof sale, lease, rent, or bailment, and is an incidental adjunct to an established private\nbusiness owned and operated by such person within the scope and in furtherance of\nany primary commercial enterprise of such person other than the business of\ntransportation of property for hire;\n(6) Motor vehicles used in pick-up or delivery service within a city or within a city and\nits commercial area for a carrier by rail;\n(7) Motor vehicles used exclusively for the transportation of coal from the point at\nwhich such coal is mined to a railhead or tipple where the railhead or tipple is\nlocated at a point not more than fifty (50) air miles from the point at which the coal\nis mined;\n(8) Motor vehicles used as ambulances in transporting wounded, injured, or sick\nanimals or as ambulances as defined in KRS 311A.010;\n(9) Motor vehicles used by transit authorities as created and defined in KRS Chapter\n96A except as required by KRS 96A.170. Vehicles operated under the authority and\ndirect responsibility of such transit authorities, through contractual agreement, shall\nbe included within this exemption, without regard to the legal ownership of the\nvehicles, but only for such times as they are ope rated under the authority and\nresponsibility of the transit authority;\n(10) Motor vehicles having a seating capacity of fifteen (15) or fewer passengers and\nwhile transporting persons between their places of residence, on the one hand, and,\non the other, t heir places of employment, provided the driver himself or herself is\non his way to or from his or her place of employment, and further provided that any\nperson who operates or controls the operation of vehicles hereunder of which said\nperson is the owner o r lessee, and any spouse of said person and any partnership or\ncorporation with said person or his or her spouse having an interest therein doing\nsuch, shall be eligible to so operate an aggregate number of not more than one (1)\nvehicle on other than a nonprofit basis;\n(11) Motor vehicles used to transport cash letters, data processing material, instruments,\nor documents, regardless of the ownership of any of said cash letters, data\nprocessing material, instruments, or documents;\n(12) Motor vehicles operate d by integrated intermodal small package carriers who\nprovide intermodal-air-and-ground-transportation. For the purposes of this section,\n\"integrated intermodal small package carrier\" shall mean an air carrier holding a\ncertificate or qualifying as an indirect air carrier that undertakes, by itself or through\na company affiliated through common ownership, to provide intermodal -air-and-\nground-transportation, and \"intermodal -air-and-ground-transportation\" shall mean\ntransportation involving the carriage of articles weighing not more than one hundred\nfifty (150) pounds by aircraft or other forms of transportation, including by motor\nvehicle, wholly within the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The incidental or\noccasional use of aircraft in transporting packages or arti cles shall not constitute an\nintegrated intermodal operation within the meaning of this section;\n(13) Motor vehicles operated pursuant to a grant of funds in furtherance of and governed\nby 49 U.S.C. secs. 5310 or 5311, including all amendments, and whose o perators\nhave jurisdictions and services approved annually by the Transportation Cabinet in\naccordance with 49 C.F.R. Title VI;\n(14) Motor vehicles used to transport children to educational events or conservation\ncamps run by, or sponsored by, the Department of Fish and Wildlife;\n(15) Motor vehicles used to transport children to events or camps run by, or sponsored\nby, the Kentucky Sheriffs Association; or\n(16) (a) Motor vehicles used in the transportation of persons who are eighteen (18)\nyears of age or ol der, if the motor vehicles are owned by a nonprofit\norganization or being used on behalf of a nonprofit organization that is\nexempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal\nRevenue Code.\n(b) Motor vehicles owned and operated by a non profit organization that are\nexempt under this subsection shall be subject to liability insurance coverage as\nestablished by KRS 281.655.\n(c) Motor vehicles owned privately but operated on behalf of a nonprofit\norganization that are exempt under this subse ction shall be subject to liability\ninsurance coverage as established by KRS 304.39-110.","path":["KRS Chapter 281"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=53171","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:53:33Z","sha256":"bd98f1820a07aa99168a70533dfdf8d48533128601cda925515a6ff26cc7d9dc","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-281.604","next":"us-ky/krs-281.607"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}