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OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 

Ginger SELLERS 

*mlHIv GLNLlUIl. 

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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 supplleo 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 

60 conaumG~ 

t th 0 place ofF@ra~e r plaoe or sale andiZ& 

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 transportation 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 tranaporting 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 provielone 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 transporting *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 transported. 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. 
Hon.-L. W. Vanoo, pago 4 

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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 

its latest oataloguo the Sohool ot Business Admlnlstratlon of the University of Texea divides its 

subjeots under thirteen major haads, lnoludlfig 

Warketlng* and *Traneportatlon and Induatry’i nnder ‘Marketing’ it lists a dozen oourees dealing 

with consumer purohaelng, ealesmanahlp, retailing, 

wholesali.ng, chain store systems, oooperatlve 

ohalne but not with trensportatlon. Under *franaportatlon and Industry’ ere listed transportation 

ooursea ln air, potor and water tranaportetlon. 

From the Columbia Enoyolopedla*s colependlum on 

marketing we quote the following: 

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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 oamblnlug retall ~eales with wholecaelo purohasos 

or with manufaoturlng. Cooperative organizations of ooneumers end of produoere as rarmere’, 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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