Michigan Compiled Laws — RAILROADS (Act 300 of 1909)

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Michigan railroad commission; qualifications and duties of commissioners; removal; pecuniary interest prohibited; oath; compensation and expenses; chairperson; meetings; quorum; vacancy; investigations, inquiries, and hearings; employees and appointments; offices; rules; conferences.

(1) The commissioners shall have the following qualifications: One shall be an attorney having knowledge of and experience in law relating to common carriers; the others shall have knowledge of traffic and transportation matters. Each of the commissioners shall devote to the duties of his office all the time necessary…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.2a

Applicability of act.

This act does not apply to a railroad or a railroad, bridge, or tunnel company regulated by the railroad code of 1993, Act No. 354 of the Public Acts of 1993, being sections 462.101 to 462.451 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. In case of a conflict between this act and Act No. 354 of the Public Acts of 1993 with respect t…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.3

Definitions; scope.

(a) The term "common carrier" as used in this act shall be construed to mean and embrace all corporations, companies, individuals, associations of individuals, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever who now or may hereafter own, operate, manage or control as a common carrier in this stat…

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Transportation & Motor Vehicles

Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.4

Common carrier; duty to serve; rates; through routes; rates; joint rates.

(a) Every common carrier is hereby required to furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities and shall provide and furnish transportation of passengers and property upon reasonable requests therefor, and all charges made for any service in connection therewith, or for the receiving, switching, delivering, storing,…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.5

Free transportation; penalty; freight; tickets.

(a) No common carrier, subject to the provisions of this act shall hereafter, directly or indirectly, issue or give any free ticket, free pass, or free transportation for passengers, except to its employes or their families, its officers, agents, surgeons, physicians or attorneys at law and members of their families; o…

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Transportation & Motor Vehicles

Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.6

Switch connection with private side track; order of commission; rules; spur track; payment of cost and expenses; disagreement.

(a) Any railroad, subject to the provisions of this act, upon application of any shipper tendering traffic for transportation, shall construct, maintain and operate upon reasonable terms a switch connection with any private side track, when such connection is reasonably practicable and can be put in with safety and wil…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.7

Interchange of traffic; preferred freight; routing by shippers or initial carrier; steam railroads and interurban and suburban railroads; drawing cars and merchandise of connecting lines; local traffic; intrastate traffic.

(a) All railroads subject to the provisions of this act shall afford all reasonable and proper facilities by the establishment of switch connections between one another and the establishment of depots and otherwise for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines and for the receiving, forwarding and deliv…

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Business & Commerce Transportation & Motor Vehicles

Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.8

Railroads to furnish cars; shortage, preference, regulation by commission; demurrage.

Every railroad shall, when within its power so to do, and upon reasonable notice, furnish suitable cars to any and all persons who may apply therefor, for the transportation of any and all kinds of freight in carload lots. Every common carrier shall have sufficient cars and motive power to meet all requirements for the…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.9

Charges for longer and shorter hauls; governing rate.

It shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to charge or receive any greater fare or rate for the transportation of passengers or like kinds of property under substantially similar circumstances and conditions for a shorter than a longer distance over the same line, in the same dir…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.10

Schedule of rates; filing with commission; public inspection; rate change; joint tariff; form of schedules; filing and publication of rates required; complaints; military traffic.

(a) 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 in each of its depots and offices, schedules showing all rates, fares and charges for transportation, both of passengers and property, between different points o…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.11

Special contract rates.

Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent concentration, commodity, transit and other special contract rates, but all such rates shall be open to all shippers for a like kind of traffic under similar circumstances and conditions, and shall be subject to the provisions of this act as to the printing and the fili…

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Business & Commerce

Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.12

Freight classification.

The classification of freight in this state shall be uniform on all railroads.

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.13

Maintenance of depot facilities; joint maintenance by connecting railroads; discontinuance of passenger service; approval of commission; appeal of order of commission.

(a) Every railroad, unless excused therefrom by the order of the commission made after petition and hearing, shall provide and maintain adequate depots and depot buildings, including facilities for checking baggage and the sale of tickets at its regular stations and at such other points as the commission shall direct,…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.14

Sidetracks, spurs and branches; control by commission; abandonment or removal, procedure.

The commission shall have control and jurisdiction over all sidetracks, spurs and branches insofar as the same are used or operated by common carriers. No change or discontinuance in the service from, to or on such sidetracks, spurs and branches or abandonment or removal of said sidetracks, spurs or branches, except si…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.15

Continuous carriage of freight; unlawful acts.

It shall be unlawful for any common carrier to enter into any combination, contract or agreement, express or implied, to prevent by change of time, schedule, carriage in different cars, or by other means or devices, the carriage of freight from being continuous from the place of shipment to the place of destination; an…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.16

Rate discrimination unlawful; compensation for incidental service.

If any common carrier or any agent or officer thereof shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or by any means of false billing, false classification, false weighing, or by any other device whatsoever, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person, firm or corporation, a greater or les…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.17

Traffic discrimination unlawful.

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, or to subject any particular person,…

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Transportation & Motor Vehicles

Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.18

Receiving rebate or discrimination; penalty.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation knowingly to accept or to receive any rebate concession or discrimination in respect to transportation of any property wholly in this state or for any service in connection therewith, whereby any such property shall, by false billing, false classification, false…

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Criminal Law

Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.19

Civil liability.

If any common carrier shall do, or cause to be done, or permit to be done, any matter, act or thing in this act prohibited or declared to be unlawful, or shall omit to do any act, matter or thing required to be done by it, or by any lawful order made under the provisions of this act by the Michigan railroad commission,…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.20

Failure to report unlawful.

It shall be unlawful for any officer, agent or employe of any common carrier to willfully fail or refuse to fill out and return any blank or make any report as required by this act, or to willfully fail or refuse to answer any questions therein propounded, or to knowingly or willfully give a false answer to any such qu…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.21

Fees; disposition.

The commission shall charge and collect the following fees: For copies of papers and records not required to be certified or otherwise authenticated by the commission, 10 cents for each folio; for certified copies of official documents and orders filed in its office, 15 cents for each folio; for certifying a copy of an…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.22

Rate investigation on complaint; hearing, order for change in schedules; separate hearings; dismissal; rate investigation on motion of commission; order; complaint by common carrier; through rates; joint rates.

(a) Upon complaint in writing of any person, firm or corporation or association, or of any mercantile, agricultural or manufacturing society, or of any body politic or municipal organization, that any of the rates, fares, charges or classifications, or any joint rate or rates are in any respect unreasonable or unjustly…

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Government Administration

Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.23

Commissioners; powers; issuance of subpoena by court; witness fees; depositions; record of proceedings.

(a) Each of the commissioners, for the purposes mentioned in this act, shall have power to administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, way bills, books, accounts, documents and testimony. In case of disobedience on the part of any person…

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Courts & Civil Procedure

Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.24

Orders of commission; rescission or amendment.

The commission may, at any time upon application of any person or any common carrier, and upon at least 10 days' notice to the parties interested, including the common carrier, and after opportunity to be heard as provided in section 22, rescind, alter or amend any order fixing any rate or rates, fares, charges or clas…

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Mich. Comp. Laws § 462.25

Rates; classification and regulations prescribed by commission to be prima facie lawful; express companies.

All rates, fares, charges, classification and joint rates fixed by the commission and all regulations, practices and services prescribed by the commission shall be in force and shall be prima facie, lawful and reasonable until finally found otherwise in an action brought for the purpose pursuant to the provisions of se…

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