Definitions
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(1)In this Act, “Board” means the Ontario Highway Transport Board; (“Commission”) “commercial motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle with a permanently attached truck or delivery body and includes a truck tractor used for hauling purposes, but does not include an ambulance, hearse, casket wagon, fire apparatus, bus or motor vehicle commonly known as a tow truck when the tow truck is being used as a tow truck; (“véhicule automobile utilitaire”) “commercial vehicle” means, (a) a commercial motor vehicle or a combination of a commercial motor vehicle and trailer or trailers as defined in the Highway Traffic Act, (b) a dual-purpose vehicle or a combination of a dual-purpose vehicle and a trailer as defined in the Highway Traffic Act, or (c) the combination of a motor vehicle, as defined in the Highway Traffic Act, drawing a trailer or trailers, as defined in that Act; (“véhicule utilitaire”) “Committee” means the Advisory Committee on Truck Transportation; (“Comité”) “compensation” includes any rate, remuneration, reimbursement or reward of any kind paid, payable or promised, or received or demanded, directly or indirectly; (“rémunération”) “dual-purpose vehicle” means a motor vehicle, other than one commonly known as a passenger car, designed by the manufacturer for the transportation of persons and goods; (“véhicule à double usage”) “goods” includes all classes of materials, wares and merchandise and livestock; (“biens”) “highway” means a highway as defined in the Highway Traffic Act; (“voie publique”) “licensee” means the holder of an operating licence issued under this Act; (“titulaire de permis”) “Minister” means the Minister of Transportation; (“ministre”) “Ministry” means the Ministry of Transportation; (“ministère”) “officer” means a member of the Ontario Provincial Police Force or an officer of the Ministry designated in writing by the Minister to assist in the enforcement of this Act; (“agent”) “operate” means to cause to be driven on a highway and “operated” has a corresponding meaning; (“exploiter”, “exploité”) “operating authority” means a specific authority to operate that is contained within an operating licence; (“autorisation d’exploitation”) “operating licence” means an operating licence issued under this Act containing one or more operating authorities; (“permis d’exploitation”) “owner” means the person in whose name the vehicle portion of a permit is issued for a motor vehicle under the Highway Traffic Act; (“propriétaire”) “prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations; (“prescrit”) “public truck” means a commercial motor vehicle or the combination of a commercial motor vehicle and trailer or trailers drawn by it, operated by the holder of an operating licence; (“camion autorisé”) “Registrar” means the Registrar of Motor Vehicles appointed under the Highway Traffic Act; (“registrateur”) “regulations” means the regulations made under this Act; (“règlements”) “road construction materials” means rubble carried to or from a construction or demolition site and 01 928 — animal or poultry manure, 10 — metallic ores, 14 1 — dimension stone, quarry, 14 2 — crushed or broken stone or riprap, 14 41 — gravel or sand, excluding abrasive, 14 51 — clay, ceramic or refractory minerals, crude, 14 714 — apatite or phosphate rock, clay or sand, crude, excluding ground or otherwise treated, 14 715 — rock salt, crude, crushed, lump or screened, excluding sodium chloride (common salt), 14 719 — chemical or fertilizer minerals, not elsewhere classified, excluding ground or otherwise treated, 14 919 — non-metallic minerals, not elsewhere classified, loam, soil or topsoil, not elsewhere classified, excluding ground or otherwise treated at mine site or fuels, 28 126 32 — calcium chloride, liquid, 28 126 33 — calcium chloride, other than liquid, 28 181 70 — urea, other than liquor or liquid, 28 71 — fertilizers excluding milled, mined or otherwise prepared, natural boron, sodium or potassium compounds, 28 991 — salt, common, 29 116 — asphalt pitches or tars, petroleum, coal tar, coke oven or natural gas, 29 511 40 — composition, paving, consisting of sand, slag or stone and asphalt, pitch or tar combined, 29 511 45 — paving composition, consisting of stone, granulated cork and asphalt, 32 952 15 — cinders, clay, shale (expanded shale), slate or volcanic (not pumice stone) or haydite, 32 952 53 — slag, basic (cementitious), ground or pulverized, 32 952 60 — slag, basic (phosphate), ground or pulverized, 32 952 78 — slag, furnace, crushed, expanded, granulated, ground or pulverized, viz, aluminum, antimony (refuse from antimony ore), brass, copper, detinning (refuse derived from detinning process), ferro silicon (flue slag from ferro-silicon or silicon metal production furnaces), iron, iron-titanium (iron titanium bearing slag), lead, magnesium, nickel, tin or zinc, 32 952 91 — slag, nec, crushed, granulated, ground or pulverized, without commercial value for the further extraction of metal, 33 112 — furnace slag, excluding ground or otherwise treated; (“matériaux de construction des routes”) “STCC” means the Standard Transportation Commodity Code Tariff 6001-O, as amended effective the 1st day of July, 1987, filed with the National Transportation Agency; (“STCC”) “STCC number” means a number in STCC representing the goods or materials classified under that number; (“numéro du STCC”) “toll” means any fee or rate charged, levied or collected for the transportation of goods in or on a public truck. (“tarif”) Idem (2)Where, in this Act or the regulations, a reference to goods or materials is preceded by a STCC number, the goods or materials referred to are those indicated in the STCC by reference to that number. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.22, s. 1.