Legislative Document, Volume 15J.B. Lyon Company, 1921 |
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Albany Alexandria Bay allowed amount appears application attorney Ausable Forks Barhite bridge cars cent fare certificate Chemung County city of Watertown city of Watervliet City's Exh claimed Commissioner company's complaint concur consent construction consumers contract corporation cost court cu.ft cubic feet deductions deficit evidence filed five cents fixed capital franchise freight furnish Gas Company Glens Falls grade crossing granted hearing highway Hudson income increase interest investment Kellogg kw.h matter meter miles month municipality natural gas Northern Adirondack Power operating expenses pany passengers petition petitioner plant present proposed Public Service Commissions question Railroad Company Railroad Law Railway Company rate of fare reasonable result road route schedule service charge Service Commissions Law station statute tariff Telephone Company tion town board tracks traffic trains transportation United Traction Company Utica village Watertown York Central Railroad York city York State Railways zone
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Page 471 - ... shall prescribe the rate, fare, or charge, or the maximum or minimum, or maximum and minimum, thereafter to be charged, and the classification, regulation, or practice thereafter to be observed, in such manner as, in its judgment, will remove such advantage, preference, prejudice, or discrimination. Such rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations, and practices shall be observed while in effect by the carriers parties to such proceeding affected thereby, the law of any State or the decision...
Page 415 - Commission shall with due regard among other things to a reasonable average return upon the value of the property actually used in the public service and to the necessity of making reservation out of income for surplus and contingencies, determine the just and reasonable rates, fares and charges to be thereafter observed and in force as the PUR1S20F.
Page 355 - ... the commission shall with due regard among other things to a reasonable average return upon the value of the property actually used in the public service...
Page 374 - Whenever the commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint...
Page 195 - ... being the consideration of the public grant, any contract which disables the corporation from performing those functions, which undertakes, without the consent of the State, to transfer to others the rights and powers conferred by the charter, and to relieve the grantees of the burden which it imposes, is a violation of the contract with the State, and is void as against public policy.
Page 699 - That a legislative presumption of one fact from evidence of another may not constitute a denial of due process of law or a denial of the equal protection of the law it is only essential that there shall be some rational connection between the fact proved and the ultimate fact presumed, and that the inference of one fact from proof of another shall not be so unreasonable as to be a purely arbitrary mandate...
Page 826 - This is, at any rate, the general rule. We do not say there may not possibly be an exception to it, where the property may have increased so enormously in value as to render a rate permitting a reasonable return upon such increased value unjust to the public.
Page 103 - ... manufacturing and using electricity for producing light. heat or power, and in lighting streets, avenues, public parks and places, and public and private buildings of cities, villages and towns within this state...
Page 181 - No corporation constructing and operating a railroad under the provisions of this article, or of chapter two hundred and fifty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, shall charge any passenger more than five cents for one continuous ride from any point on its road, or on any road, line or branch operated by it, or under its control, to any other point thereof, or any connecting branch thereof, within the limits of any incorporated city or village.
Page 184 - ... not be an exorbitant charge for the service rendered. But the state has not seen fit to undertake the service itself ; and the private property embarked in it is not placed at the mercy of legislative caprice. It rests secure under the constitutional protection which extends not merely to the title, but to the right to receive just compensation for the service given to the public.