§ 190. Application of article. This article shall apply to common
carriers of property by motor vehicle transporting household goods. The
provisions of this article shall not apply to:

(a) the transportation of household goods by or for the federal, state
or municipal governments;

(b) the occasional, casual or reciprocal transportation of household
goods by any person not engaged in the transportation of household goods
as a regular occupation or business;

(c) the transportation of household goods as defined in paragraph (c)
of subdivision fifteen of section two of this chapter when such
transportation is wholly within a municipality or between contiguous
municipalities or within a commercial zone as defined by the
commissioner that is adjacent to and commercially a part of any
municipality or municipalities except when such transportation is under
a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage
or shipment by motor vehicle to or from a point outside of such
municipality, municipalities or commercial zone;

(d) the transportation of household goods as defined in paragraph (c)
of subdivision fifteen of section two of this chapter when such
transportation is performed by a common or contract carrier of property
by motor vehicle authorized to transport such articles pursuant to
article eight of this chapter; or

(e) the transportation of household goods in private carriage when
such transportation is incidental to and in furtherance of a primary
business enterprise of such person other than transportation.