Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 390 · 42 active provisions
It is hereby declared that the legislation contained in this chapter is enacted for the following purposes: (1) To promote safe, adequate, economical and efficient transportation; (2) To promote the most productive use of equipment and energy resources; and (3) To conserve the interests and convenience of the public. N…
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the words and terms mean: (1) "Agricultural commodities in bulk", commodities conforming to the meaning of "commodities in bulk" as defined in this section, which are agricultural, horticultural, viticultural or forest products or any other product…
1. The provisions of this section shall be applicable, notwithstanding any provisions of section 390.030 to the contrary. 2. As used in chapter 622 and in this section, except when the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms shall mean: (1) "UCR implementing regulations", includes the regulations issued…
1. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to: (1) School buses; (2) Taxicabs; (3) Motor vehicles while being used exclusively to transport: (a) Stocker and feeder livestock from farm to farm, or from market to farm, (b) Farm or dairy products including livestock from a farm or dairy, (c) Agricultural limestone…
The division of motor carrier and railroad safety is hereby vested with power and authority: (1) To license, supervise and regulate every common or contract carrier in this state; to make, fix or approve just and reasonable minimum, maximum, or minimum and maximum rates, fares and charges thereof; to make, fix or appro…
1. Duly authorized enforcement personnel of the division may stop commercial motor vehicles when there is a probable cause that the operator has violated, or is violating, any part of this chapter, or the rules promulgated by the division of motor carrier and railroad safety. Enforcement personnel may detain the vehicl…
1. Except as otherwise provided in section 390.030, no person shall engage in the business of a common carrier of household goods or passengers in intrastate commerce on any public highway in this state unless there is in force with respect to such carrier a certificate issued by the state highways and transportation c…
Beginning August 28, 2012, and continuing thereafter, no certificate or permit to transport household goods in intrastate commerce shall be issued or renewed unless the applicant demonstrates that the applicant has workers' compensation insurance coverage that complies with chapter 287 for all employees. If any househo…
1. Except as otherwise provided in section 390.030, no person shall engage in the business of a contract carrier of household goods or passengers in intrastate commerce on any public highway in this state unless there is in force with respect to such carrier a permit issued by the state highways and transportation comm…
1. The division, upon the filing of an application for a certificate under subsection 4 of section 390.051, a permit under subsection 4 of section 390.061, or the institution of a proceeding involving rate relief, except as provided in section 390.081, shall cause notice thereof to be published and served by the mailin…
1. As used in this chapter, the following terms mean: (1) "Elderly", any person who is sixty years of age or older; (2) "Handicapped", any person having a physical or mental condition, either permanent or temporary, which would substantially impair ability to operate or utilize available transportation; and (3) "Urbani…
1. Each person who applies for employment as a driver of a commercial motor vehicle shall provide the employer at the time of the application with information of previous employment as a commercial motor vehicle driver, as prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation of the United States, for the ten years preceding t…
1. In order to provide motor carrier service for which there is an immediate and urgent need from, to or between a point or points or within a territory having no carrier service deemed capable of meeting such need, the division of motor carrier and railroad safety shall, pending the filing of an application for a cert…
No common carrier authorized under the provisions of this chapter to operate within the state of Missouri shall abandon, discontinue, or fail to provide any service established or authorized to be established under the provisions of this chapter, unless such action is authorized by the division of motor carrier and rai…
The division of motor carrier and railroad safety may at any time, for good cause, suspend, and upon at least ten days' notice to the holder of any certificate or permit, and after hearing, revoke, alter or amend any such certificate or permit upon a finding: (1) That the motor carrier has abandoned service; (2) That t…
1. In the event a motor carrier, to which a certificate or permit shall have been issued under the provisions of this chapter, shall sell, transfer, or assign the business, rights or assets of such motor carrier, or any part thereof, and such motor carrier and the purchaser thereof shall make proper application to the…
1. Common carriers of household goods may establish reasonable through routes or interline service and joint rates, charges and classifications with other such carriers or with common carriers by railroad or express; and common carriers of passengers may establish reasonable through routes and joint rates, fares or cha…
Whenever, after hearing, upon complaint or in an investigation on its own motion, the division shall be of the opinion that any individual or joint rate, fare or charge, demanded, charged or collected by any common carrier by motor vehicle or by any common carrier by motor vehicle in conjunction with any common carrier…
1. No motor carrier shall operate any motor vehicle on any public highway in this state until after such carrier shall have filed with, and same has been approved by the division, a certificate of any insurance carrier duly authorized to do business in this state certifying that there is in effect a liability insurance…
1. To assist motor carriers in certifying their motor vehicle financial responsibility as required pursuant to this chapter and chapter 622, the division of motor carrier and railroad safety within the state department of economic development shall provide by rule for the electronic filing by insurance companies of cer…
1. No motor carrier, except as provided in section 390.030, shall operate any motor vehicle unless such vehicle shall be accompanied by an annual or seventy-two-hour regulatory license issued by the state highways and transportation commission; provided that when a motor carrier uses a truck-tractor for pulling trailer…
1. In the event of the mutilation or destruction of an annual license issued by the division, the lawful holder thereof may file with the motor carrier and railroad safety division an affidavit showing such fact and shall, on the surrender of that portion of the mutilated, damaged or worn license on which is imprinted…
The orders and decisions of the division on the matters covered by the provisions of this chapter shall be reduced to writing and a copy thereof, duly certified, shall be served on the motor carrier affected thereby through the United States mail, and such order and decision shall become operative and effective within…
The provisions of chapters 386 and 387 that are not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 390.011 to 390.176 are hereby made applicable to motor carriers.
1. Every intrastate common or contract carrier of household goods or passengers shall submit once a year to the division on or before April fifteenth a financial statement for the year ending December thirty-first preceding stating only the assets and liabilities of the carrier. 2. The division shall determine the form…