Source: https://law.justia.com/codes/nebraska/2017/chapter-75/statute-75-118/
Timestamp: 2019-11-21 01:18:06
Document Index: 437601822

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 75', '§ 18', '§ 8', '§ 36', '§ 10', '§ 66', '§ 17']

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75-118 Commission; duties.
Universal Citation: NE Code § 75-118 (2017)
75-118. Commission; duties.
(1) Fix all necessary rates, charges, and regulations governing and regulating the transportation, storage, or handling of household goods and passengers by any common carrier in Nebraska intrastate commerce;
(2) Make all necessary classifications of household goods that may be transported, stored, or handled by any common carrier in Nebraska intrastate commerce, such classifications applying to and being the same for all common carriers;
(3) Prevent and correct the unjust discriminations set forth in section 75-126;
(4) Enforce all statutes and commission regulations pertaining to rates and, if necessary, institute actions in the appropriate court of any county in which the common carrier involved operates except actions instituted pursuant to sections 75-140 and 75-156 to 75-158. All suits shall be brought and penalties recovered in the name of the state by or under the direction of the Attorney General; and
(5) Enforce the Major Oil Pipeline Siting Act and the State Natural Gas Regulation Act.
Laws 1963, c. 425, art. I, § 18, p. 1360;
Laws 1989, LB 78, § 8;
Laws 1994, LB 414, § 36;
Laws 1995, LB 424, § 10;
Laws 2003, LB 790, § 66;
Laws 2011, First Spec. Sess., LB1, § 17.
This section referred to in decision to the effect that the State Railway Commission is empowered to fix joint line rates. Howard McLean Co. v. Chicago, B. & Q. R.R. Co., 187 Neb. 30, 187 N.W.2d 300 (1971).
Railway Commission has a duty to prescribe necessary rates and classification of freight. Ready Mix, Inc. v. Nebraska Railroads, 181 Neb. 697, 150 N.W.2d 275 (1967).