Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0178-02.html
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Author: {"author": "MATTHIAS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 221
    No. 19504
    Wilbur R. Solt and R. P. Meyers, Receiver, v. Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, et al.
    Error to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
    973. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION— 1. Authorized to regulate service and to prescribe safety regulations for operation of motor vehicles.
    2. Revocation of certificate of public convenience and necessity warranted when omission of trips from schedule by motor transportation company or violations of requirements for safety of travelling public amounts to neglect and constitutes a menace to passengers.
    1192. TRANSPORTATION — Motor transportation companies cannot deviate from regular route in transportating passengers upon special trips in absence of authorization from Commission.
   MATTHIAS, J.

1. The Public Utilities Commission is authorized by law to regulate the service and prescribe safety regulations for the operation of motor vehicles by motor transportation companies in this state, and is empowered “for a good cause” to suspend or revoke any certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by it pursuant to Section 614-87, General Code.

2. The omission of trips from its schedule by a motor transportation company by reason of the diversion of busses therefrom to special trips elsewhere, or the violation of requirements prescribed by tbe Public Utilities Commission for the safety of the traveling public for such protracted period as to evidence neglect and constitute a menace to passengers, warrants the revocation of the certificate of public convenience and necessity theretofore issued to such company.

3. Where a motor transportation company is granted a certificate of public convenience and necessity by the Public Utilities Commission of the state, and thereby granted authority to transport passengers by designated motor vehicles over a regular route therein described, such company, in the absence of a certificate of the commission authorizing it so to do, may not use any such motor vehicle in transportating passengers over an irregular route or upon special trips, though the same be made under private contract.

Order affirmed.

Marshall, CJ., Jones, Day, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.