Sec. 2.1. (a) This chapter does not apply to the following:

(1) Motor vehicles used as school buses while engaged in the transportation of students, under the supervision, control, and direction of school authorities.

(2) Motor vehicles used exclusively as taxicabs.

(3) Motor vehicles while being used or operated under the control, direction, and supervision of:

(A) the United States government, the state, or a political subdivision; or

(B) the board of trustees of any state institution.

(4) Motor vehicles that are used to provide limited transportation services in conjunction with the operation of a hotel, campground, or food service facility but are not used as a common carrier. For the purpose of this subdivision, compensation for housing, camping, or food combined with transportation is not transportation by motor vehicle for compensation. However, transportation may not be performed for any person if, at the point of origin or within twenty-five (25) miles of that point, there is an equipment point as shown by a proper tariff of a carrier of passengers in Indiana that operates special or charter bus service under the jurisdiction of the department. Exemption from this chapter is not available under this subdivision unless the motor vehicles in question are provided with proof of financial responsibility of the type and in amounts as required of common carriers under IC 8-2.1-22-46.

(5) Motor vehicles that are used to provide regular route intercity passenger service.

(6) Motor vehicles that are used primarily for van pooling or other ride-sharing programs on a nonprofit basis.

(7) Motor vehicles that are used to provide transportation of passengers by a nonprofit corporation if that corporation receives revenue for the transportation service from federal, state, or local governments.

(8) A motor vehicle that:

(A) has a capacity of not less than seven (7) or more than forty (40) persons;

(B) is used to transport employees, including the driver, exclusively between their homes and their employer's place of business, or termini near those places, in a single daily round trip; and

(C) is owned or leased by an employer providing commuter van service, which means any person who provides or operates at least one (1) of those vehicles on a nonprofit basis, and whose service does not infringe upon or compete with any service that is provided by any common carrier regulated by the department.

(9) Motor vehicles certified as ambulances by the Indiana emergency medical services commission under IC 16-31.

(10) The casual, occasional, or reciprocal transportation of household effects or furniture for compensation, not including the transportation for hire of new household effects or furniture to or from a factory, warehouse, or store, by a person who:

(A) does not otherwise engage in the described transportation for compensation;

(B) is not required under this chapter to hold a certificate or permit to engage in transportation or operation for hire; or

(C) does not profess to engage in the business of transporting household effects or furniture for hire.

(b) This chapter does not apply to a limousine while the limousine is being used to transport at least one (1) person:

(1) from a place of departure; and

(2) to a destination;

within the corporate boundaries of a city or town if the legislative body of the city or town has adopted an ordinance under IC 36-9-2-4 that takes effect after July 1, 1991, and that regulates limousines within the corporate boundaries of the city or town.

As added by P.L.1-1991, SEC.78. Amended by P.L.2-1993, SEC.63; P.L.2-1995, SEC.40; P.L.110-1995, SEC.11.