jswizzle3737/ontario_laws_and_regs huggingface dataset:
Definitions
 1. In this Regulation, “household goods” means, (a)  furniture, appliances and personal effects transported as part of the relocation of a household, and includes vehicles and boats moved as part of a household, (b)  uncrated furniture and equipment transported to, and to be furnishings in, an office, store, factory, commercial establishment, museum, hospital or public institution, (c)  stock-in-trade moved as part of the relocation of an office, store or commercial establishment, and (d)  objects of art, displays, exhibits, computers and electronic devices that require specialized handling; “public truck” means a commercial motor vehicle or the combination of a commercial motor vehicle and trailer or trailers drawn by it, operated by a person to carry the goods of another person for compensation.  O. Reg. 643/05, s. 1.
Goods not covered by this Regulation
 2. This Regulation does not apply to the carriage of the following goods: 1.  Goods that are carried solely within a local municipality, excluding a municipality that had the status of a township on December 31, 2002 and, but for the enactment of the Municipal Act, 2001, would have had the status of a township on January 1, 2003. 2.  Fresh fruit and fresh vegetables grown in continental United States of America or Mexico. 3.  Goods used on farms that are carried in a commercial motor vehicle equipped with not more than three axles and that does not draw a trailer. 4.  Field crops, fresh fruits, fresh tree nuts, fresh vegetables, horticultural specialities, livestock and  animal specialities that are carried in a commercial motor vehicle equipped with not more than three axles and that does not draw a trailer. 5.  Skim milk, cream or fresh, unprocessed bulk fluid milk carried on behalf of The Ontario Milk Marketing Board. 6.  Milk carried by a co-operative corporation to which the Co-operative Corporations Act applies, of which one of the objects is to engage in the transportation of milk and of which more than three-quarters of the shareholders or members are producers supplying milk to one or more plants. 7.  Wheat that is carried by a person appointed to act as agent for the Ontario Wheat Producers’ Marketing Board from the agent’s premises in a commercial vehicle registered in the agent’s name. 8.  Ready mixed concrete. 9.  Primary forest or raw wood materials that are the products of the forest from which they are being carried. 10.  Goods carried by an operator of a commercial vehicle if the goods have been sold, bought, produced, transformed or repaired by, or lent, borrowed, given or leased by, the operator as an integral part of the operator’s primary business, which business is not the operation of public trucks. 11.  Goods being transported for compensation in a bus operating between municipalities or beyond the limits of one municipality. 12.  Goods carried by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission.  O. Reg. 643/05, s. 2; O. Reg. 439/21, s. 1.
Liability insurance held by carriers
 3. (1) For each motor vehicle operated by a carrier for the carriage of goods for compensation, the carrier shall provide or effect and carry with an insurer licensed under the Insurance Act liability insurance for loss or damage to goods in an amount sufficient to cover the loss or damage of the goods carried.  O. Reg. 643/05, s. 3 (1). (2) Subsection (1) does not apply where the cargo is road-construction materials, iron, steel, coal, rough lumber or miscellaneous waste or scrap or materials of an indestructible or non-flammable nature.  O. Reg. 643/05, s. 3 (2).
Information required in contract of carriage — general freight
 4. (1) A contract of carriage must contain, (a)  the name of the consignor; (b)  the name and address of the consignee; (c)  the originating point of the shipment; (d)  the destination of the shipment; (e)  the date of the shipment; (f)  the name of the originating carrier; (g)  the names of connecting carriers, if any; (h)  the particulars of the goods comprising the shipment; (i)  a space to show the declared valuation of the shipment, if any; (j)  information as to whether the charges are prepaid or collect; (k)  a space to show whether the C.O.D. fee is prepaid or collect; (l)  a space to show the amount to be collected by the carrier on a C.O.D. shipment; (m)  a space to note any special agreement between the consignor and carrier; (n)  a statement to indicate that the uniform conditions of carriage apply; (o)  an acknowledgment of receipt of the goods by the carrier or the intermediary indicating whether the goods were received in apparent good order and condition; (p)  an undertaking by the carrier or the intermediary to carry the goods for delivery to the consignee or the person entitled to receive the goods; (q)  the signed acceptance by or on behalf of the originating carrier or intermediary and the consignor of the conditions contained, or deemed to be contained, in the contract of carriage; (r)  a statement of the notice of claim requirements in the uniform conditions of carriage; and (s)  if applicable, a statement, in conspicuous form, that the carrier’s liability is limited by a term or condition of another agreement.  O. Reg. 643/05, s. 4 (1). (2) The uniform conditions of carriage in Schedule 1 are deemed to be terms and conditions of every contract of carriage to which this section applies.  O. Reg. 643/05, s. 4 (2). (3) This section does not apply to a contract of carriage for, (a)  livestock; (b)  animal specialties; (c)  household goods; (d)  road construction materials, garbage, waste or scrap, sod, coal or lumber (rough or dressed); or (e)  a parcel, wrapped or unwrapped, that does not weigh more than 45 kilograms.  O. Reg. 643/05, s. 4 (3).
Information required in contract of carriage — livestock or animal specialties
 5. (1) A contract of carriage for the carriage of livestock or animal specialties must contain, (a)  the name of the consignor; (b)  the name and address of the consignee; (c)  the originating point of the shipment; (d)  the destination of the shipment; (e)  the date of the shipment; (f)  the name of the originating carrier; (g)  the names of connecting carriers, if any; (h)  the particulars of the goods comprising the shipment; (i)  the gross weight of the shipment; (j)  a space to show the declared valuation of the shipment, if any; (k)  information as to whether the charges are prepaid or collect; (l)  a space to show the amount to be collected by the carrier on a C.O.D. shipment; (m)  if applicable, a statement, in conspicuous form, that the carrier’s liability is limited by a term or condition of another agreement; and (n)  if applicable, the words “at owner’s risk”.  O. Reg. 643/05, s. 5 (1). (2) The uniform conditions of carriage in Schedule 2 are deemed to be terms and conditions of every contract of carriage to which this section applies.  O. Reg. 643/05, s. 5 (2).