Indiana. Kansas. Louisiana. [Maine. Maryland. Massachusetts. Michigan. Schedules filed with the commission shall be open to public inspection. Acts 1913, c. 76, § 41. (Quoted on p. 101). § 43 of the Indiana law is practically identical with par. 26 of the District of Columbia law, quoted above. Same, § 43. Schedules of joint rates must be similarly published. Same, § 44. Copies of all new schedules shall be filed as above, thirty days prior to time of taking effect, unless the commission prescribes a less time. Same, § 45. Schedules shall be published. Laws 1911, c. 238, § 11. “*** within thirty days after such changes have been authorized by said Public Utilities Commission, then copies of all tariffs, schedules, and classifications, and all rules and regulations, shall be filed in every station, office or depot of every such public utility and every common carrier in this state, for public inspection." Same, $ 20. Any agent, operator or employee of a telegraph or telephone company who shall neglect or refuse to comply with any order, rule or regulation of the commission relative to "the posting of bulletin boards, exhibiting tariffs to the public," etc., shall be liable to fine of $50 for each offense. Acts 1908, No. 240, § 1. Schedules filed with the commission shall be open to public inspection. Laws 1913, c. 129, § 19. "A copy of so much of said schedules as the commission shall deem necessary for the use of the public shall be printed in plain type and kept on file in every station or office of said public utility where payments are made by the consumers or users, open to the public under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the commission." Same, § 21. Joint rates shall be published. Same, § 22. "Copies of all new schedules shall be filed as hereinbefore provided in every station and office of such public utility where payments are made by customers or users ten days prior to the time the same are to take effect, unless the commission shall prescribe a less time." Same, § 24. (See note p. 3.) A provision requiring common carriers to publish rates, probably applicable by virtue of § 455-(p. 42 supra), appears in Ann. Code 1911, Art. 23, § 427. See, also, § 428. Rate schedules filed with the commission shall be kept open to public inspection and published in substantial conformity with requirements of interstate commerce commission. Acts 1913, c. 784, § 20. "Each person, copartnership, corporation or telephone company operating telephone lines and facilities within the State shall have on file and accessible to the public in the principal place of business of such person, copartnership or corporation, a schedule of rates, (Mich.) The commission shall prescribe the manner and place for posting tariffs. Mississippi. Tariffs shall be posted within ten days after approval. Code 1906, § 4846. Rates filed with the commission shall be kept open to public inspection in Missouri. accordance with rules to be prescribed by the commission. Laws 1913, p. 556, § 88. "*** A copy of so much of said schedule as the Commission shall deem necessary for the use of the public, shall be printed in plain type, and kept on file in every station or office of such Public Utility, where payments are made by the consumers or users, open to the public, in such form and place as to be readily accessible to the public and as can be conveniently inspected." So much of schedules of joint rates shall be published as the commission may deem necessary. Copies of all new or amended schedules shall be likewise posted. Laws 1913, c. 52, § 11. Montana. Common carriers' are required to post schedules of rates for the transporta- Nebraska. tion of passengers and freight. Stats. 1911, § 10656. Telephone and telegraph companies must post rates in every office. Rev. Nevada. Laws 1912, § 4627. (This section was not enacted as a part of the commission law.) See, also, § 4552. "Every railroad corporation and public utility *** shall print and keep open to public inspection, schedules showing the rates, fares, charges and prices for *** any service rendered or to be rendered, in such places, within such time, and in such form, and with such detail as the commission may order." Laws 1911, c. 164, § 7 (a). ***In the case of railroad corporations and public utilities subject to regulation by the interstate commerce commission, the requirements relative to the filing of schedules *** and to the publication thereof shall conform as nearly as may be to the requirements of the interstate commerce commission *** Same, $7 (b), as am'd 1913, c. 145, § 7. New Hampshire. The provisions as to publishing rates include "transmission company," but New Mexico. seem to apply only to companies "engaged in transportation of passengers and 'Defined to include telephone and telegraph companies. (N. M.) New York. North Dakota. Ohio. Oklahoma. Oregon. Pennsylvania. property," and to rates "for the transportation of persons and property." Laws 1912, c. 78, §§ 16-18. The commission is authorized to establish rules and regulations for keeping schedules open to public inspection. Laws 1910, c. 673, § 3, Pub. Ser. Com. Law, 92, as am'd 1911, c. 124. Common carriers are required to post, and keep up to date, schedules showing rates "for the transportation of passengers and property," Rev. Codes 1905, §§ 4339, 4340. 66 Common carrier," by definition, includes telephone and telegraph companies. Laws 1911, c. 255, amending § 4324. “*** A copy of such schedules or so much thereof as the commission shall deem necessary for the use and information of the public, shall be printed in plain type and kept on file or posted in such places and in such manner as the commission may order." Laws 1911, p. 549, § 18 [614-16]. The above provision is continued in force in connection with the public utilities commission. Laws 1913, p. 804, § 20 [499-7]. Companies must keep in all offices a schedule of regular rates, open to inspection of any person interested. Rev. Laws 1910, § 793. Penalty prescribed. Same, § 795. § 27 of the Oregon law is practially identical with par. 26 of the District of Columbia law, quoted above. Laws 1911, c. 279, § 27. Joint rates must be similarly published. Same, § 28. Changes in rates shall be indicated, or new schedules filed ten days prior to taking effect. Same, §§ 29, 30. (d). *** It shall also be the duty of every public service company to post and publish such tariffs and schedules, *** in every office or station of said public service company open to the public, where payments are made by shippers, consumers, users, or patrons, in such manner, form, and place in such office or station as to be readily accessible, and so that the said tariffs and schedules may be conveniently inspected by the public, and, similarly, in such other places as the commission may require. In case of *** telegraph and telephone corporations, such tariffs and schedules shall conform to those required by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Every public service company shall also *** post as directed, all rules and regulations that in any manner affect the said prices, charges, rates, fares, tolls, or other compensation, ***. Upon application, the commission may limit and restrict the number and character of such tariffs and schedules, and the number of offices or stations at which the same are required to be posted, as aforesaid." (c) Joint rates must be published. (f) Thirty days' notice of changes shall be filed. Laws 1913, No. 854, Art. II, § 1. The commission shall have power to prescribe the form of the tariffs and schedules required to be filed and posted and published by public service companies under this act; and the rules and regulations as to the filing, posting, and publishing, and the manner and places of posting and publishing thereof, in the case of public service com- *** A copy of so much of said schedules as the com- * Thirty days' notice of proposed changes shall be similarly published, but the commission may modify requirements of section. The commission may prescribe form of schedules, but as to utilities subject to the federal act, form shall be that prescribed by interstate commerce commission. Laws 1912, c. 795, § 48. (Penn.) Rhode Island. Schedules of railroad rates must be posted at stations. Code 1912, § 3175. South May apply to telephone and telegraph companies. Same, §§ 3162, 3327. Telephone companies must print and keep for public inspection in every telephone office complete schedules of all rates. Failure to publish rates subjects company to a writ of mandamus. Laws 1911, c. 207, § 10, as am'd 1913, c. 304. See, also, § 20. Copies of all schedules shall be posted in every station or exchange. Proposed schedules shall be posted at least thirty days before taking effect. Laws 1909, c. 289, § 6, am'd Laws 1911, c. 218, § 4. Carolina. South Railroads must publish rates. Acts 1897, c. 10, § 22. Tennessee. The schedules filed with the commission shall be kept open to public inspec- Vermont. tion. Laws 1908, No. 116, § 18. "Every company subject to the provisions of this act shall keep on file in every station or office thereof where payments are made by consumers or users, open to the public, and in such form and place as to be readily accessible to inspection by the public, a copy printed in plain type of so much of its said schedules as the commission shall deem necessary." Same, § 19. The schedules required to be filed with the commission shall be kept open to Washington. public inspection at such points as the commission may designate. *** A schedule shall be plainly printed in large type, and a copy thereof shall be kept by every telephone company and tele- (Wash.) West Virginia. Wisconsin. United District of Alabama. Arizona. and that the agent will assist such person to determine from such Thirty days' notice of proposed changes shall be published as above. Same, § 37. $9. Schedules showing changes in rates must be published. Acts 1913, c. 9, (Quoted on p. 97.) The schedules filed with the commission must be kept open to public inspection. Same, § 12. (Quoted on p. 107.) Provisions similar to those in Oregon are found in Stats. 1911, §§ 1797m-29-32. The above provisions apply to telephone companies. Telegraph companies are required to post rates by Same, § 1797-4. 4. JOINT RATES. The commission has power to regulate joint rates and to apportion the same by supplemental order, after hearing, when the parties do not agree on such apportionment. The commission may also establish through routes and joint rates, and apportion same. § 15, Act to Regulate Commerce, as am'd. Schedules of joint rates must be filed and published. District Appropriation Act, March 4, 1913, § 8, par. 27. Joint rates are expressly included in the provisions relating to rates in pars. 28, 30, 41, 61, 63, 94. "Whenever the rate or charge ordered substituted by the commission shall be a joint rate or charge, and the transportation company or companies affected thereby shall fail to agree upon the apportionment thereof, within twenty days after the service of such order, the commission may, after a hearing, issue a supplemental order declaring the apportionment of such joint rate or charge, and the same shall take effect of its own force as part of the original order." Code 1907, § 5680. In cases relating to the joint rates of two or more companies, such companies may be joined in one proceeding before the commission. Same, § 5682. Joint rates must be reasonable. Laws 1912, c. 90, § 13. §§ 16, 40 of the Arizona law (Laws 1912, c. 90) differ only in unimportant details of phraseology from §§ 16, 40 of the California law, quoted below. For a provision as to joint rates of common carriers," which term by definition includes telephone and telegraph corporations, that seems to apply only to railroads, see Same, § 33. |