Arizona republican., 1917-12-30
NEW REGULATION PRESCRIBED " FUR AUTO SERVICE OPERATION


 fixing other provisions tending toward l the safety and convenience of the trav- { cling public, an order has been issued l by the state corporation commission l which will affect every owner and 1 driver of publicly used motor vehicles within the boundaries of Arizona. Among the most important of the pro- visions are that liability insurance must be carried by the operator of the car guaranteeing responsibility for any injury which might come to pass engers, and drivers must be at least 2l years of age and must have had one years experience in the handling of motor vehicles. The official instrument of the corporation commission is here tO appended:
 Arizona Corporation Commission In the matter of the investigation of automobiles and automobile stage lines. Docket No. 460. Appearances:
 c. II. Newton of Naco, for himself FU. II. Anderson, for Arizona Mutual Auto Insurance company; A. N. Scott, for Western Indemnity com pany Opinion and order. Betts, commissioner.
 By notice duly given, the commission in the proceeding has, on it's own initi- atiVe, entered into an investigation of the operation of automobile and auto mobile stage lines handling passengers and property for hire within Arizona. The case came on for hearing before the commission at it's office in the capitol building in Phoenix, october 19, 1917.
 By stipulation, it was agreed that | the records in all former cases of this | character should be considered and made a part of the records in this | proceeding. The commission has here tofore given consideration to this | character of traffic in dockets num- | bers 236, 2S7, 326, $50, 356, 3S1, 391, | 39S, 395, 351, 3SS, 399, 400, 40, 417, | 421 439 sub. 1 and 45S. In most of the above cases, the | principal feature under consideration | was that of rates between specific | points, but in almost all cases the feature of safety in the method of operation and proper rules and regula- tions for the protection of the travel ing public were also a factor In the present case the issues were confined largely to that of safety of operation md a compliance with the statutes and The orders of the commission relative To the filing of schedules of fares and service. In cases heretofore consid- cred, the commission has invariably prescribed rules and regulations with reference to the speed of cars, the qual-
  of liability insurance policies and, in- asmuch as it has acted only upon com plaint or request, it has brought about condition wherein those lines operat- Ing in districts wherein we have pre- scribed rules and regulations, have been required to conform to such rules and regulations at considerable ex- pense, whereas cars operating in other districts have been left free to operate pntirplV unOu their own iudpnpOt Ii is obvious that all persons engaged in this traffic should be placed under uni form rules, to the end that no discrim- ination may exist.
 We have found that, as 8 general proposition, automobiles handling passengers for hire may be divided into two classes, which we will desig- nate as:
 Service cars operating between specified points upon regular sched- ules, usually providing daily service; and,
 Rent" cars, which do not operate Upon any regular time schedule, but make trips to any desired point, charg ing. ordinarily, by the hour, by the mile or by the trip.
 Inasmuch as no complaints have been filed relative to the operation of rent cars, and no requests have been made upon the commission for a con- sideration of this class of service, we have not, up to this time, prescribed rules and regulations covering such cars. We believe. however, that such cars should be required to afford that measure of protection to the travelling public which we require of service" cars relative to liability insurance policies, and also that they should file with the commission data relative to the districts in which they op- crate in a general way, and the rates which they charge, specified either by the hour, by the mile or by the trip.
 That the commission has ample power to take Jurisdiction over such vehicles of transportation is firmly established by constitutional and statu- tory provisions as will be noted by the following quotations:
 Section ?, Article KY of the con- stituton:
 "All corporations, other than munich pal, engaged in carrying persons or property for hire; or in furnishing gas oil or electricity for light fuel or pow Pr; or in furnishing water for irriga- tion, fire protection, or other public purposes; or in furnishing, for profit hot or cold air or steam for heating oI cooling purposes: or in transmitting messages or furnishing public telegraph or telephone service, and all corpora tiOns other than municipal, operating as common carriers, shall be deemed public service corporations"
 Subdivision 'E' of Paragraph 227S Chapter II. Revised Statutes of Ari- zona, 1913:
 The term transportation of per. sons" when used in this chapter, in. cludes every service in connection witt or incidental to the safety, comfort ol convenience of the person transported and the receipt, carriage and deliver! of such person and his baggage
 Sub division "T' of the same para graph:
 The term common carrier, whel used in this chapter, includes ever! railroad corporation, street railroad corporation; express corporation; dis patch, sleeping car, dining car, draw ing room car, freight, freight line, re frigerator, oil, stock, fruit, car loan ing, car renting, car loading and ever. other car corporation or person; cleo trical corporation; transmission cor poration; telegraph corporation, tele phone corporation, water corporation or pipe line corporation; for the trans hortation of persons, or of electricity messages, water, oil or other property for profit, their lessees, trustees, re ceivers or trustees appointed by an court whatsoever operating for com pensation within this state"
 Paragraph 2290, subdivision "A reads in part:
 Every common carrier shall file wit the commission and shall print an keep open to the public inspectio schedules showing the rates, fare! charges and classfications for tn transDOrtatiOn between terrnini withi