St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1913-05-02
CHAPTER a.4-H. r. No. 1881.

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AN ACT to repeal Chapter 313 Of the Gen
eral Laws of 1911, and relating to joint
freight rates over two or more connecting
state and relating to the powers and duties
of the railroad and warehouse commission
and to enact substitute therefor.
State of Minnesota.
Section !. 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
to be transferred at the connecting point or
points without change of car or cars If in
carload lots. and with Or without change of
car or cars if in less than carload lots, when
ever the distance from the place of shipment
to destination. both being within this state, Is
railway than it is over a single line of rail-
way, or where the initial line does not reach
the place Of destination; and it shall be the
duty. upon the request of any such owner or
consignor OF fleiSht, made to the initial COM
panV, of such railway companies whose lines
so connect, to transport the freight without
change of car or cars If the shipment be
In carload lot or lots, and with change of
car or cars If it be in less than"carload lots,
from the place of Shipment to destination,
whenever the distance from the place of ship
ment to destination, both being within this
line. or when tie initial line does not reach
the point OF destination. for a reasonable joint
through rate. This section shall not apply to In
terurban railways operated by electricity. ex-
cept as to freight or cars transported over two
or more such interurban railways having
similar equipment so as to make 1t physical
lly practicable to comply with the provisions
of this section.
Sec. 2. The board Of Railroad and Ware
this act takes effect, notify in writing every
railway company owning or operating a rail
way within this state that it will, upon q
day named in such notice, which day shall
not be more than thirty days after giving
said notice. take up for investigation the sub
ject of establishing joint through rates, as
herein provided hptWppn thA railway lines
notice. directed ITO whom It may concern
and so publish the same, that it will have
general circulation throughout the state. AL
corporations, partnerships and persons inter
ested in the subject may present themselves
at the hearing and be heard, under such rules
and regulations as the board may prescribe.
A the end of the investigation, which shall
be carried on with all due diligence, the said
sion shall make and publish a schedule of joint
through railway rates for such traffic anc
on Q such routes as in its judgment the fan
shall be done by carriage over two or more
lines Of railway, and will promote the in.
~terests of the people of this state. In the
making thereof, and in changing, revising OF
adding to the same, the board shall be gov.
erned as nearly as may be by the preceding
consideration, among other things, the rates
established for shipments within this state
eGF s,ke b a!st tha ra,l Gyev e SINGLE n 1inss' o sne 1a 5ns
such connecting lines for joint interstate
shipments, and the increased cost, if any,
with a shipment over a single line for like
distances. II. establishing such rates for
shipments in less than carload lots, in cases
the line of shipments the connecting railways
have not and are not required to have a
common in@ nor , s5atiGn or Stepping p place ; for % Load tss1
make such lawful regulations as in its judg-
ment will be fair and just respecting the
transportation of such freight from the usual
| unlOaOlnR place OF one railway to the usual
loading place Of the other. The joint through
rates thus established shall be promulgated
railway company affected thereby and shall
go into effect within ten days after they are
time an official printed schedule thereof shall
be prima facie evidence, in all courts Of this
state. that the rates therein fixed are just
Of such freight between the points and over
the lines described therein. The said board
shall deliver a printed copy of said schedule
The share of any railway company Of any
joint through rate shall not be construed
portation for a similar distance over any par,
Of its line for any single rate shipment or
the share of any other joint rate. The board
upon such reasonable notice as it may pre-
the application Of any person, firm or cor
interested therein, revise, change or
promulgated hereunder; and any such revised,
changed or added joint rates shall have the
same force and effect as the rate or rates
originally established. The said board is en-
any railway company whose line connects
the point Of shipment with the point of destin-
alton. but requires a longer haul than the
joint haul over which a joint rate has been
established, to charge the joint rate without
affecting the charge upon any other part OF
its line. except the charge for a like kind
of property must not be greater for a shorter
than for a longer distance over its railroad,
all Of the shorter haul being included within
the longer. This section shall apply to inter
urban railways and their connection with
ordinary steam railways. :
., Sec &C., g. !, G Shn "a ra s1$ Of tho oe9eral Jaw.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after January i, 1914.
Approved April IS, 1918.