1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to motor vehicles; expanding definition of
1.3 	farm truck to include trucks used primarily to
1.4 	transport animal carcasses to places of rendering;
1.5 	making technical and clarifying revisions; amending
1.6 	Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 168.011, subdivision
1.7 	17.
1.8 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.9 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 168.011,
1.10 	subdivision 17, is amended to read:
1.11 		Subd. 17.Farm truck.  (a) "Farm truck" means all
1.12 	single-unit trucks, truck-tractors, tractors, semitrailers, and
1.13 	trailers registered as "farm trucks," that are used:
1.14 	(1) by the owner thereof to transport from the farm to
1.15 	market,agricultural, horticultural, dairy, and other farm
1.16 	products, including livestock, produced or finished by the owner
1.17 	of the truck, and any other personal property owned by the
1.18 	farmer to whom the license for the truck is issued, from the
1.19 	farm to market, and to transport property and supplies ;
1.20 	(2) by the owner to transport to the farm of the owner.
1.21 	Trucks, truck-tractors, tractors, semitrailers, and trailers
1.22 	registered as "farm trucks" may be used by the owner thereof to ,
1.23 	property and supplies;
1.24 	(3) by the owner occasionally to transport from the place
1.25 	of production to market,unprocessed and raw farm products,not
1.26 	produced by the owner of the truck, from the place of production
2.1 	to market when the transportation constitutes the first haul of
2.2 	the products,;and may be used by the owner thereof,
2.3 	(4) by the owner, who may be either a farmer or logger who
2.4 	harvests and hauls forest products only, to transport from the
2.5 	place of production to an intermediate or final assembly point
2.6 	or transfer yard or railhead,logs, pulpwood, lumber, chips,
2.7 	railroad ties,and other raw and unfinished forest products from
2.8 	the place of production to an intermediate or final assembly
2.9 	point or transfer yard or railhead, which transportation may be
2.10 	continued by another farm truck to a place for final processing
2.11 	or manufacture located within 200 miles of the place of
2.12 	production and ,all of which is deemed to constitute the first
2.13 	haul of unfinished wood products; provided that the owner and
2.14 	operator of the vehicle transporting planed lumber shall must 
2.15 	have in immediate possession a statement signed by the producer
2.16 	of the lumber designating the governmental subdivision, section,
2.17 	and township where the lumber was produced and that this haul,
2.18 	indicating the date, is the first haul thereof of that lumber.
2.19 	The licensed vehicles may also be used by the owner thereof to
2.20 	transport, to and from timber-harvesting areas, equipment and
2.21 	appurtenances incidental to timber harvesting,and gravel and
2.22 	other road-building materials for timber haul roads.
2.23 	(b) "Farm trucks truck " shall also include includes only
2.24 	single-unit trucks that, because of their construction, cannot
2.25 	be used for any other purpose and are used exclusively to
2.26 	transport milk and cream en route from a farm to an assembly
2.27 	point or place for final manufacture, and for transporting milk 
2.28 	and cream from an assembly point to a place for final processing
2.29 	or manufacture.  This section shall paragraph does not be
2.30 	construed to mean that the owner or operator of the truck cannot
2.31 	carry on usual accommodation services for patrons on regular
2.32 	return trips, such as butter, cream, cheese, and other dairy
2.33 	supplies.
2.34 	(c) "Farm truck" also includes a truck used primarily to
2.35 	transport animal carcasses to places of rendering.