The Interstate Commcerce Act: Together with Text of Supplmentary Acts and Related Sections of Various Other Acts1946 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
49 Stat 54 Stat Added August 9 Added September 18 agent application approved bill of lading brokers carrier by motor carrier by railroad carrier by water carrier or carriers classification Commis common carrier subject Comparable provisions complaint consignee construed contract carrier court deemed district Elkins Act employees enforcement exemption fares February 28 filed foreign commerce freight forwarder hearing hereby infra Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission interstate or foreign investigation issuance issued joint board joint rates June 29 knowingly and willfully lessors liable ment mission motor carrier motor vehicle notice offense operation paragraph parties passengers or property penalty pending person portation practice prescribe proceedings public interest rates or charges reasonable regulations respect riers route rules schedule service subject shipper sion supra surety bonds takes effect tariffs term thereto tion title 49 traffic trans transportation of passengers U. S. Code United unlawful violation water carrier
Popular passages
Page 18 - ... a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered, in the transportation of passengers or property, subject to the provisions of this Act, than it charges, demands, collects, or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him or them a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby...
Page 18 - That if any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation...
Page 74 - All of the expenses of the commission, including all necessary expenses for transportation incurred by the commissioners or by their employees under their orders, in making any investigation, or upon official business in any other places than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the commission. Until otherwise provided by law, the commission may rent suitable offices for its use. The Auditor for the State and Other Departments...
Page 38 - ... refund or remit in any manner or by any device any portion of the rates, fares, and charges so specified, nor extend to any shipper or person any privileges or facilities in the transportation of passengers or property, except such as are specified in such tariffs : Paragraph 7, section 6.
Page 19 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 238 - That any person who shall neglect or refuse to attend and testify, or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce documentary evidence, if in his power to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the commission...
Page 48 - Reasonable notice must first be given in writing by the party or his attorney proposing to take such deposition to the opposite party or his attorney of record, as either may be nearest, which notice shall state the name of the witness and the time and place of the taking of his deposition.
Page 47 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 35 - That every common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall file with the Commission created by this Act and print and keep open to public inspection schedules showing all the rates, fares, and charges for transportation between different points on its own route...
Page 161 - That the Commission hereby created shall have authority to inquire into the management of the business of all common carriers subject to the provisions of this act, and shall keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted...