Obrázky stránek
PDF
ePub

335.

Scope of Act to Regulate Commerce.

336. Not Applicable to Intrastate Transportation.

336a. Certain Water Transportation Exempted.

337. Term "Common Carrier," "Railroad," and "Transportation"

Defined.

338. Duty of Carrier to Furnish Transportation and to Establish

339.

Through Routes.

All Transportation Charges Must Be Reasonable.

340. Classification of Telegraph, Telephone and Cable Messages. 341. Classifications, Regulations and Practices Must be Reasonable. 342. Free Service with Certain Exceptions Prohibited and Penalties Prescribed.

342a. Excepting Cincinnati Southern Railway.

343. Railroad Companies Prohibited from Transporting Commodities in Which They Are Interested, with Certain Exceptions. Terms under Which Switch Connections Shall Be Made. 344a. Car Service Defined.

344.

344b. Duty of Carrier To Furnish Safe and Adequate Car Service. 344c. Duty of Carrier To Make Reasonable Distribution of Cars. 344d. Schedule of Car Service Must be Filed.

344e. Authority of Commission to Establish Car Service Rules. 344f. Authority of Commission to Require Joint Use of Terminals. 344g. Routing Regulations.

344h. Commission May Act by Agents-Penalties.

3441. Extension and Abandonment of Present Railroad Facilities. 344j. Procedure in Applying For Extension or Abandonments.

344k. Further Procedural Rules-Penalties.

3441. Commission May Require Extension of Facilities.

344m. Facilities Solely Within One State Exempted.

344n. Punishment For Obstructing Interstate or Foreign Commerce. 3440. Provisions Relating to Duties of Carriers During War. 345.

Definition and Prohibition of Unjust Discrimination.

346. Undue and Unreasonable Preference Prohibited.

346a. Regulation of Collection of Transportation Charges.

347. Carriers Shall Accord Reasonable and Equal Facilities for Interchange of Traffic.

347a. Joint Use of Terminal Facilities May be Required.

348. Rule as to Long and Short Hauls.

349. Relief From Long and Short Haul Clause.

350. Changes Not Required Until Further Orders.

351. Rates Reduced by Competition with Water Routes-Not Increased When.

352. Pooling of Freights and Division of Earnings Regulated. 352a. Consolidation of Carriers.

352b. Commission To Adopt A Plan.

352c. Notice of Plan To Be Given.

352d. Conditions Under Uhich Consolidations Must Be Made. 352e. Applications To Consolidate.

352f. Express Companies Consolidation.

352g. Anti-Trust Laws Not to Apply.

353. Rail Carrier Not to Own Competing Water Carriers.

354. Whether or Not Competition Exists to be Determined by the

355.

356.

357.

358.

359.

360.

361.

362. 363.

Commission.

Commission May Relieve from Provision.

Water Carriers to File Tariffs.

Violators of Sherman Anti-Trust Act Not to Use Panama
Canal.

Carriers Shall File, Print and Keep Public Schedules of Rates.
Regulations as to Printing and Posting Schedules of Rates for
Freight Moving Through Foreign Countries from and to
Any Place in the United States.

No Change of Schedules of Rates Shall Be Made Without
Notice.

Names of All Carriers Parties to Schedules Must Be Specified.
Carriers Shall File Contracts Relating to Traffic Arangements.
Commission May Prescribe Form of Schedules.

364. No Carrier Shall Participate in Interstate Commerce Unless the Charges Therefor are Published, and No Such Carrier Shall Deviate from the Published Schedules.

365. Preference and Precedence May Be Given Military Traffic in Time of War.

366.

367.

368.

369.

370.

The Commission May Reject Schedules.

Penalty for Failure to Comply with Orders under Section Six.
Penalty for Misstating or Failure to State Rate.

Must Post Name of Agent.

Corporations Violating the Act to Regulate Commerce Guilty as Individuals and Punishment Prescribed.

371. Rebate. Punishment for Offering, Granting, Soliciting, or Ac

372.

cepting.

Act of Officer or Agent, When Binding.

373. Carrier Filing or Participating in Rate Bound Thereby.

374.

375.

Forfeiture for Rebating in Addition to Penalties.
of Six Years Fixed.

Jurisdiction over Water Carriers.

Limitation

376. Physical Connection Between Rail Lines and Dock of Water

Carriers.

377. Through Routes and Joint Rates Between Rail and Water

Carriers.

378.
379. Through Rates via Panama Canal.

Proportional Rates to and from Ports.

380.

Conditions under Which Through Routes and Joint Rates with Water Carriers May Be Operated to Be Prescribed by the Commission.

381. Contracts and Combinations to Prevent Continuous Carriage

of Freight Prohibited.

382. Damages and Attorneys' Fees Allowed for Violations.

383. Where to Sue for Damages, Compulsory Attendance of Witnesses and Production of Papers.

384. Penalties for Violations of the Act.

385.

Penalties for False Billing, False Classification, False Weighing, etc., by Carriers.

386. Penalties against Shippers for False Billing, etc.

387. Penalties and Damages for Inducing Discriminations. 388. Appointment and Term of Office of Commissioners.

389.

Power and Duty of Commissioners.

390. Power of Courts to Punish for Disobedience, Witnesses Not Excused Because Testimony May Incriminate.

391. Right to Take Testimony by Depositions and the Manner Thereof Prescribed.

392.

Persons Who May File Complaints with the Commission and
Practice with Reference Thereto.

393. Commission May on Its Own Motion Institute Investigations. 393a. Procedure When State Rates Involved.

393b. Order of Commission Binding Notwithstanding State Laws. 394. Reports of Commission on Investigations, How Made and

Published.

395. Power of Commission to Determine and Prescribe Just and Reasonable Rates, Regulations and Practices.

396. When Orders Take Effect and How Long Continue Unless Modified or Set Aside by the Commission or a Court. 396a. Through Routes and Joint Rates May Be Established by the Commission.

396b. Limitations on the Power to Prescribe Through Routes. 396c. Delivery of Ordinary Live Stock.

397.

Division of Joint Rates May Be Prescribed by Commission. 398. Right to Suspend Proposed Increases in Rates.

399. Burden of Proof to Justify Rates Increased after Jan. 1, 1910. 400. Shippers May Designate Routing.

Reciprocal Duties of Carriers as to Routing.

401.

402. 403.

Rule As to Non Routed Traffic.

Unlawful to Give or Receive Information Relative to Shipments.

404. Charges for Instrumentalities Furnished by Shipper Must Be

405.

Reasonable.

Enumeration of Powers of Commission Not Exclusive.

405a. Meaning of Word "Rates" and "Carriers".

405b. Commission's Power to Initiate Rates-Fair Return.

405c. Percentage Constituting a Fair Return To Be Determined By

Commission.

405d. Determination of Aggregate Value of Property.

405e. Income In Excess of Fair Return a Trust Fund.

405f. Disposition of Excess Over Six Per Centum.

405g. Carriers Use of Reserve Fund.

405h. Limit of Five Per Centum for Reserve Fund.

4051. Rules to be Prescribed for Recovery of Excess Income. 405j. Administration of This Trust Fund by Commission, 405k. Applications By Carriers for Loan of Trust Fund. 4051. Action by the Commission on Applications for Loans. 405m. Applications by Carriers for Lease of Facilities Controlled by the Commission.

405n. Procedure on Application for Lease.

4050. Commission May Purchase Equipment.

405p. Commission May Make Rules of Procedure.

405q. Section Not to Deprive Shippers of Right to Reparation.

405r. Rights of Carriers When Undertaking New Construction.

406. Award of Damages Shall Be Made by Commission after Hearing.

407. Carrier Failing to Comply with Order for Reparation, Suit May Be Brought Thereon in United States and State Courts, the Order Being Prima Facie Evidence of the Right to Re

408.

409.

cover.

Limitation on Actions for Damages.

All Parties Jointly Awarded Damages May Sue as Plaintiffs
Against All Carriers Parties to the Award.

410. Service of Orders of Commission.

411. Commission May Suspend or Modify Its Orders.

412. Punishment for Knowingly Disobeying an Order Issued under Section Fifteen.

413. Special Attorneys May Be Employed.

414. Courts May Enforce Obedience to Commission's Order, Mandatory or Otherwise.

415. Schedules, Contracts, etc., Must Be Filed with the Commission, and, When Filed, Original or Certified Copy Prima Facie Evidence.

416. Rehearings May Be Granted by Commission.

[blocks in formation]

417a. Division of the Commission.

417b. Function of Commission May Be Performed by Divisions. 417c. Procedure of Division-Rehearing by Whole Commission. 418. Salaries and Expenses of the Commission.

419. Principal Office of Commission in Washington, but May Prosecute Inquiries Elsewhere.

420.

421.

The Commission Is Authorized to Investigate, Ascertain and
Report the Value of Railroad Property.

Method of Procedure to Be Prescribed by the Commission. 422. How Such Investigation Is Prosecuted.

423. Duty of Carriers to Aid the Investigation.

424.

Valuations to Be Revised and Corrected.

425. Carrier to Make Reports.

426. Notice of Completion of Valuation. Hearings Before Valuation Fixed. Effect of Valuation as Evidence.

427.

428.

[blocks in formation]

431. Requirements as to Transportation of Employees of the Commission with Supplies Therefor.

432. Annual Reports Required and What They Shall Contain Penalties for Failure to Make.

433. Commission May Prescribe Form of Keeping Accounts and Inspect Same.

434. Penalties for Failure to Keep Accounts and for Falsifying the

Record.

435. The Commission May Permit the Destruction of Papers.

436. Penalty for an Examiner Divulging Information Received as Such.

437. United States Circuit and District Courts May, Upon Application of Attorney-General at Request of Commission, Enforce Provisions of Act.

438. Commission May Employ Agents or Examiners.

439. Receiving Carrier Liable for Loss, Remedy Cumulative. 440. Carriers Liable for Full Value of Property Transported-Cummins Amendment.

440a. Bills of Lading.

440b. Bill of Lading Act-Transportation Included in Act.

440c. Straight Bill of Lading.

440d. Order Bill of Lading; Negotiable.

440e. Certain Order Bills.

440f. Indorsement on Order Bill.

440g. Indorsement on Straight Bill of Lading.

440h. Insertion of Name of Person to be Notified.

4401. Duty of Carrier to Deliver Goods on Demand.

440j. Person To Whom Carrier May Deliver Goods.

440k. Liability of Carrier in Case of Delivery of Goods to Wrong Person.

4401. Liability of Carrier to Purchase of Order Bill.

440m. Liability in Case of Part of Goods.

440n. Alterations.

4400. Courts May Order Delivery of Goods on Loss of Order Bill

of Lading.

440p. Liability of Carrier on Bill of Lading Indorsed "Duplicate." 440q. Adverse Claim of Title.

440r. Requiring Conflicting Claimants to Interplead.

440s. Delivery By Carrier When Informed of Adverse Claim to Goods.

440t. Claim of Third Person Enforced by Legal Process.

440u. Shipper's Weight, Load and Count.

440v. Weight, Load and Count.

440w. Liability of Carrier on Bill of Lading Issued By Its Agent. 440x. Attachment by Garnishment.

440y. Remedies of Creditor.

« PředchozíPokračovat »