Iowa · statute · Iowa Code ch. 327D · 66 active provisions
This chapter applies to intrastate transportation by for-hire common carriers of persons and property. However, this chapter does not apply to regular route motor carriers of passengers or charter carriers, as defined under section 325A.12, or a transportation network company or a transportation network company driver,…
As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Department” means the state department of transportation. 2. “Joint tariffs” embraces joint rates, tolls, contracts, classifications and charges. 3. “Railroad” means the terminal facilities necessary in the transportation of persons and property and inc…
Every railway corporation shall upon reasonable notice, and within a reasonable time, furnish suitable cars to any and all persons who may apply therefor, for the transportation of any and all kinds of freight, and receive and transport such freight with all reasonable dispatch, and provide and keep suitable facilities…
If a railroad corporation in this state refuses to connect by proper switches or tracks with the tracks of another railroad corporation or refuses to receive, transport, load, discharge, reload, or return cars furnished by another connecting railroad corporation, a petition requesting resolution of the dispute may be f…
In any action in court, or before the department, brought against a railroad corporation for the purpose of enforcing rights arising under the provisions of this section and sections 327D.3 and 327D.4, the burden of proving that the provisions thereof have been complied with by such railroad corporation, shall be upon…
A contract, receipt or rule shall not exempt any person engaged in transporting for hire from the liability of a common carrier, or carrier of passengers, which would exist had no contract, receipt or rule been made except as may be provided for liability for property loss by order of the department.
It shall be unlawful for any common carrier to give any preference or advantage to, or entail any prejudice or disadvantage upon any particular person, company, firm, corporation, locality, or any class of business or traffic, by any rate, rule, regulation, or practice whatsoever. This provision shall not prevent any c…
Common carriers shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines, and for the receiving, forwarding, and switching of cars and property to and from their several lines, and to and from other lines and places co…
If any common carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter 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 for any service rendered, or to be rendered, in the transportation of passen…
Upon request of the consignee it shall be the duty of any common carrier of freight to reconsign, rebill, and reship from any place of destination within the state to any other place within the state any property in carload lots brought to said place of destination over its own or other line and treat the same in all r…
All rates and charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property in this state, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just.
1. a. A common carrier subject to this chapter shall not charge more for the transportation of persons or property than a fair and just rate or charge. b. A common carrier shall not: 1. Charge more for the transportation of persons or property for a shorter distance than for a longer distance in the same direction on t…
It shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter to enter into any contract, agreement, or combination with any other common carrier for the pooling of freight of different and competing railroads, or divide between them the aggregate or net proceeds of the earnings of such railroad…
It shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter to enter into any combination, contract or agreement, expressed or implied, to prevent, by change of time schedules, carriage in different cars, or, by other means or device, the carriage of freights from being continuous from place o…
In case any common carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter shall do, cause, or permit to be done anything prohibited or declared to be unlawful under this chapter, or shall willfully fail to do anything in this chapter required to be done, it shall be liable to the person injured thereby for three times the a…
Except as otherwise specially provided for in this chapter, and unless relieved from the consequences of a violation of the law as provided in this chapter, any common carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter, or, when such common carrier is a corporation, any director or officer thereof, or any receiver, trus…
The provisions of the following subsections shall constitute prima facie evidence of undue and unjust discriminating rates, charges, accommodations, collections or receipts. 1. Charge, collect, or receive for the transportation of any passenger or freight of any description upon its railroad, for any distance within th…
Any corporation making any unjust discrimination as to freight rates, or the rates for the use and transportation of railway cars, or in receiving, handling, or delivering freight, shall, upon conviction, be subject to a schedule “four” penalty; or shall be subject to the liability prescribed in section 327D.28, to be…
Any railway corporation making any unjust discrimination as to passenger or freight rates, or the rates for the use and transportation of railway cars, or in receiving, handling, or delivering freight, shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay to the state an amount within the limits of a schedule “five” penalty. Money c…
Nothing in this chapter shall apply to free or reduced rates for the transportation, storage or handling of: 1. Property for the United States, this state, or political subdivisions of this state. 2. Materials to be used by public authorities in constructing or maintaining public facilities. 3. Property for charitable…
Sections 327D.1 through 327D.29 shall not be construed to prohibit the making of rates by two or more railway companies for the transportation of property over two or more of their respective lines within the state; and a lower charge by each of said companies for its portion of such joint shipment than it charges for…
Every owner or consignor of freight to be transported by railway from any point within this state to any other point within this state shall have the right to require that the same shall be transported over two or more connecting lines of railway, to be transferred at the connecting point or points without change of ca…
It shall be the duty of every common carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter, when shipments are tendered for transportation between points in this state, to route such shipments from shipping point to point of destination over the cheapest available route between such points except in cases where the shipper…
The department may order a schedule of joint through railway rates for such traffic and on such routes as in its judgment the fair and reasonable conduct of business requires.
Before the adoption of the rates, the department shall notify the railroad corporations interested in the schedule of joint rates fixed, and give them a reasonable time to agree upon a division of the charges provided. If the corporations fail to agree upon a division, and to notify the department of their agreement, t…