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AL Code § 37-1-152 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 4 - Injunction or Restraining Order.|Section 37-1-152 - Filing of Bond; Condition to Pay Damages.

Section 37-1-152Filing of bond; condition to pay damages. The bonds required to be given as a condition precedent to the issue of restraining orders or injunctions shall be filed with the clerk of said court and be payable to the State of Alabama and conditioned to pay all damages that any person, firm, company, or corporation shall sustain by reason of the enjoining or restraining of the enforcement of such order or orders, in the event the injunction shall be dissolved or vacated, or for any reason cease to be operative. (Code 1907, §5703; Code 1923, §9695; Code 1940, T. 48, §96.)
AL Code § 37-1-153 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 4 - Injunction or Restraining Order.|Section 37-1-153 - Right to Appeal.

Section 37-1-153Right to appeal. Either party may appeal to the supreme court from the judgment of the trial court in such proceedings, such appeal to be taken within 30 days from the entry of such judgment. (Code 1907, §5709; Acts 1909, No. 26, p. 35; Code 1923, §9701; Code 1940, T. 48, §97.)
AL Code § 37-1-154 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 4 - Injunction or Restraining Order.|Section 37-1-154 - Bond Required Upon Appeal by Utility.

Section 37-1-154Bond required upon appeal by utility. If the utility desires to take an appeal from the judgment of the trial court and to supersede the same, it shall give, in addition to security for costs, a bond with two or more individual sureties or one surety company, to be approved by the clerk or register of the court, which bond shall be in an amount and with the conditions to be prescribed by the judge, and the same shall be payable as prescribed by law. (Code 1907, §5710; Acts 1909, No. 26, p. 35; Code 1923, §9702; Code 1940, T. 48, §98.)
AL Code § 37-1-155 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 4 - Injunction or Restraining Order.|Section 37-1-155 - Action on Bond.

Section 37-1-155Action on bond. Any person, firm, company or corporation, who shall sustain any loss, injury or damage by reason of such injunction or restraining order, may bring a civil action on the bond in the name of the State of Alabama for its use and recover such damages as it may have sustained, including any overcharge or excess rate or charge paid by it on account of the suspension of said rates, charges or orders. (Code 1907, §5704; Code 1923, §9696; Code 1940, T. 48, §99.)
AL Code § 37-1-156 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 4 - Injunction or Restraining Order.|Section 37-1-156 - Delivery of Bond Upon Dissolution of Injunction; Receipt in Evidence.

Section 37-1-156Delivery of bond upon dissolution of injunction; receipt in evidence. Immediately after the dissolution or vacating of the injunction or restraining order, or upon the same ceasing for any reason to be operative and in force, the bond shall be delivered to the Public Service Commission, and a copy of the bond, duly certified by the clerk of the court while it is in his custody, or by the secretary or the chief clerk of the Public Service Commission of Alabama, or any member of the commission when in its custody, under the seal of the commission, shall be received in evidence without further proof. (Code 1907, §5705; Code 1923, §9697; Code 1940, T. 48, §100.)
AL Code § 37-1-157 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 1 - Public Service Commission.|Article 2 - Powers and Duties Generally.|Division 4 - Injunction or Restraining Order.|Section 37-1-157 - Costs.

Section 37-1-157Costs. If, upon the appeal of any action originating under this title, it shall be determined by the court that the order of the commission was invalid or unreasonable or unjust and should not be performed, the costs of said action may, in the discretion of the court be taxed against the state or the utility or utilities involved in the action. If on the hearing the court should find in favor of the Public Service Commission, then the costs of the action shall be paid by the utilities by or against which the proceedings were instituted. If costs are ordered taxed against or paid by the state, the same shall be paid upon the approval of the trial judge, by a warrant drawn by the comptroller upon the treasurer. The costs of the transcript certified by the Public Service Commission to the circuit court shall be taxed as a part of the costs of the action at the same rate as transcripts from the circuit court to the supreme court are taxed. (Code 1907, §5714; Code 1923, §9678; Code 1940, T. 48, §101.)
AL Code § 37-2-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-1 - "Transportation Company" Defined.

Section 37-2-1"Transportation company" defined. The term "transportation company" shall mean and include every person not engaged solely in interstate commerce or business that now or may hereafter own, operate, lease, manage or control, as common carriers or for hire: Any railroad or part of a railroad in this state or any cars or other equipment used thereon, or bridges, terminals or sidetracks used in connection therewith, whether owned by such railroad or otherwise; any express companies; any car companies; any sleeping car companies; any steamboat or steam packet company or common carrier for hire by water regardless of the propelling power used; any railroad depot or terminal station; any telegraph line; any telephone line; any pipeline for the transportation of oil or other commodity, whether the transportation is by pipeline or partly by pipeline and partly by rail, truck or water. This term shall also mean and include two or more transportation companies rendering joint service. Such term shall also mean and include every person not engaged solely in interstate commerce or business that now or may hereafter own, operate, lease, manage or control as a means of common carrier transportation by himself, or by others; any canal or other artificial watercourse, or part thereof, in this state, or any public wharf, dock, or terminal used in connection therewith, whether owned by the person who owns such canal or other artificial watercourse, or otherwise, provided nothing in this chapter shall apply to the regulation of commerce on navigable streams or rivers, whether the streams or rivers contain locks and dams or not. (Acts 1920, No. 42, p. 92; Acts 1935, No. 499, p. 1077; Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 200, p. 237; Code 1940, T. 48, §102; Acts 1945, No. 510, p. 732; Acts 1982, No. 82-549, p. 908, §1.)
AL Code § 37-2-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-2 - Governmentally Owned Transportation Companies.

Section 37-2-2Governmentally owned transportation companies. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any transportation company owned by a municipality or by the federal government but shall apply to a state owned transportation company. (Acts 1920, No. 42, p. 92; Acts 1931, No. 177, p. 252; Code 1940, T. 48, §103.)
AL Code § 37-2-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-3 - Duty of Commission to Supervise, Regulate, and Control Transportation Companies.

Section 37-2-3Duty of commission to supervise, regulate, and control transportation companies. The Public Service Commission is charged with the duty of supervising, regulating and controlling all transportation companies doing business in this state, in all matters relating to the performance of their public duties and their charges therefor, and of correcting abuses therein by such companies, and the commission shall, from time to time, prescribe and enforce against said transportation companies, in the manner authorized in this title, such rates, charges, classifications of freight, storage, demurrage and car service charges, rules and regulations, and shall require them to establish and maintain all such public service facilities and conveniences as may be reasonable and just, which said rates, charges, classifications, rules, regulations and requirements the commission may, from time to time, alter or amend. All rates, charges, classifications, rules and regulations adopted or acted upon by any transportation company inconsistent with those prescribed by the commission acting within the scope of its authority, or inconsistent with those prescribed by any statute, shall be unlawful and void. And the commission shall enforce and require compliance with all the provisions of all laws now in force or hereafter enacted regulating railroads and other transportation companies or prescribing the duties thereof. (Code 1886, §1129; Code 1896, §3490; Code 1907, §5651; Acts 1915, No. 746, p. 865; Acts 1920, No. 42, p. 92; Code 1923, §§9629, 9823; Code 1940, T. 48, §104.)
AL Code § 37-2-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-4 - When Certificate of Convenience and Necessity Required.

Section 37-2-4When certificate of convenience and necessity required. No transportation company shall undertake the extension of its service or the construction of a new plant, property or facility, except ordinary extensions in the usual course of business, or shall acquire or operate any line, plant or property of another transportation company, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require, or will require, or the public interest will be best served by, such extension, construction, acquirement, operation or acquirement and operation. (Acts 1920, No. 42, p. 92; Code 1923, §9713; Code 1940, T. 48, §105.)
AL Code § 37-2-4.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-4.1 - Owners of Land Proposed to Be Acquired by Utility or Telephone Company to Be Given Notice of Filing of Application for Certificate of Convenience and Necessity.

Section 37-2-4.1Owners of land proposed to be acquired by utility or telephone company to be given notice of filing of application for certificate of convenience and necessity. Any utility or telephone company that is required to obtain a certificate of convenience and necessity under Section 37-2-4 or Section 37-4-28 from the Alabama Public Service Commission for the construction or operation of any facility must give notice of the filing of such application with said commission to the reasonably identifiable owners of all lands which are proposed to be acquired for such construction or operation for which the certificate of convenience and necessity is sought; except, that such notice requirement shall not apply to the acquisition of lands or interest in lands for utility or telephone transmission or distribution lines or to the purchase, lease or other acquisition of an existing utility or telephone system. Such notice must be given in writing, and proof of service thereof must be filed with and become a part of the record of such certificate proceedings before the commission. All such landowners shall be entitled to be heard and to participate in such certificate proceedings. (Acts 1978, No. 847, p. 1266.)
AL Code § 37-2-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-5 - When Permit to Abandon Service Required.

Section 37-2-5When permit to abandon service required. No transportation company subject to this chapter shall abandon all or any portion of its service to the public or the operation of any of its lines, properties or plant which would affect the service it is rendering the public, except ordinary discontinuances of service for nonpayment of charges, nonuser, violations of rules and regulations or similar reasons in the usual course of business, unless and until there shall first have been filed an application for a permit to abandon service and obtained from the commission a permit allowing such abandonment. (Acts 1920, No. 42, p. 92; Code 1923, §9713; Code 1940, T. 48, §106.)
AL Code § 37-2-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-6 - Application for Certificate or Permit - Notice and Hearing.

Section 37-2-6Application for certificate or permit - Notice and hearing. The application for and issuance of any such certificate of convenience and necessity or application for a permit to abandon its service, provided for in Sections 37-2-4 and 37-2-5, shall be under such rules and regulations as to hearing and other matters as the commission may, from time to time, prescribe. Upon the receipt of any such application for such certificate or permit, the commission may cause notice thereof to be given the chief executive officers of the municipality or municipalities affected, and such notice may be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in each section affected. (Acts 1920, No. 42, p. 92; Code 1923, §9714; Code 1940, T. 48, §107.)
AL Code § 37-2-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-7 - Application for Certificate or Permit - Grant or Refusal; Conditions; Revocation; Exception.

Section 37-2-7Application for certificate or permit - Grant or refusal; conditions; revocation; exception. The commission, as it deems to the best interest of the public, may grant in part or in whole, or may refuse such applications, and in the event such applications are granted, the commission may impose such conditions as it deems expedient for the protection of the public interest. The commission must require the transportation company, when such applications are granted, to avail themselves promptly of the authority or right granted, and in the event the transportation company fails to promptly avail itself of the rights granted, such certificate of convenience or permit must be revoked. The provisions of this section and Sections 37-2-4, 37-2-5 and 37-2-6 shall not apply to transportation companies which are required under Title IV of the Transportation Act of Congress, approved February 28, 1920, and amendments thereto, to obtain from the Interstate Commerce Commission a certificate of convenience and necessity. (Acts 1920, No. 42, p. 92; Code 1923, §9713; Code 1940, T. 48, §108.)
AL Code § 37-2-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-8 - List of Tickets, Passes and Mileage Books to Be Filed With Commission.

Section 37-2-8List of tickets, passes and mileage books to be filed with commission. Every transportation company shall, on or before September 1 in each year, and oftener if required by the Public Service Commission, file with the commission a verified list of all railroad tickets, passes and mileage books, issued free or for other than actual bona fide money consideration at full established rates during the preceding year, ending June 30, together with the names of recipients thereof, the amounts received therefor, and the reason for issuing the same. This provision shall not apply to the sale of tickets at reduced rates authorized by the law, or rates open to the public. (Code 1907, §5530; Code 1923, §10027; Code 1940, T. 48, §109.)
AL Code § 37-2-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-9 - Repairs, Improvements or Changes in Property or Devices.

Section 37-2-9Repairs, improvements or changes in property or devices. If, in the judgment of the Public Service Commission, repairs or improvements to or changes in any trains, switches, terminals or terminal facilities, motive power, or any other property or device used by any transportation company, subject to the supervision of the Public Service Commission, in or in connection with the transportation of passengers, freight or property, ought reasonably to be made, or any additions should reasonably be made thereto, in order to promote the security or convenience of the public or employees, or in order to secure adequate service or facilities for the transportation of passengers, freight or property, the commission shall, after a hearing had either on its own motion or after complaint filed, make and enter an order directing such repairs, improvements, changes or additions to be made within a reasonable time and in a manner to be specified therein, and every transportation company subject to the supervision of said commission shall make all such repairs, improvements, changes and additions required of it by any order of the commission served on it, and any transportation company that shall fail, refuse, omit or neglect to obey any lawful order or requirement of the Public Service Commission, for which a penalty has not been provided, shall forfeit to the State of Alabama a sum not exceeding $2,000.00 for each offense, to be fixed by the court or judge trying the case, and every such violation, failure, refusal, neglect or omission shall constitute a separate and distinct offense, and, in case of a continuing violation, each and every day's continuance thereof shall be a separate and distinct offense. (Acts 1907, Ex. Sess., No. 15, p. 29; Code 1923, §§9846, 9872; Code 1940, T. 48, §110.)
AL Code § 37-2-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-10 - Filing and Posting of Tariffs.

Section 37-2-10Filing and posting of tariffs. Every transportation company shall print and cause to be filed with the commission, and keep open to public inspection, tariffs or schedules of rates showing all rates, fares, charges, classifications, rules, regulations and practices for transportation subject to this chapter between points on its own route and between points on its own route and points on the route of any other such transportation company, when a through route and joint rate shall have been established, and all services in connection therewith, all privileges and facilities granted or allowed and all rules, regulations, or practices affecting such rate, fare, charge or classification or the value of the service thereunder. If no joint rate over the through route has been established, the several transportation companies in such through route shall print and cause to be filed with the commission, and keep open to public inspection, tariffs or schedules of rates showing the separately established rates, fares and charge applied to the through transportation. The tariffs or schedules of rates printed as aforesaid by any such transportation company shall plainly state the places between which property and passengers will be carried, and shall contain the classification of freight in force, and shall also state separately all terminal charges, storage charges, icing charges and all other charges which the commission may require, all privileges or facilities granted or allowed, any rules or regulations which in any wise change, affect or determine any part or the aggregate of such aforesaid rates, fares and charges, or the value of the service rendered to the passenger, shipper or consignee. The provisions of this section shall apply to all traffic, transportation and facilities defined in this article. Such rates, fares and charges shall be stated in terms of lawful money of the United States. The tariffs or schedules of rates required by this section shall be published, filed and posted in such form and manner, and in such places, and shall contain such information as the commission, by regulation, shall prescribe; and the commission is authorized to reject, prior to the effective date thereof, any tariff or schedule of rates filed with it which is not in consonance with this section and such regulation. Any tariff or schedule of rates so rejected by the commission shall be void and its use shall be unlawful. (Code 1867, §5526; Code 1876, §5524; Code 1886, §5523; Code 1896, §5522; Code 1907, §5521; Code 1923, §§10017, 10018, 10019, 10020, 10022; Code 1940, T. 48, §111.)
AL Code § 37-2-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-11 - Joint Rates.

Section 37-2-11Joint rates. Whenever any transportation company shall refuse or neglect to establish a joint rate or rates for the transportation of persons or property, the commission may, upon notice to such transportation company or companies, and after an opportunity to be heard, as provided in this title, fix and establish such joint rate or rates, and if the transportation companies, parties thereto, shall fail to agree upon apportionment thereof within 20 days after the service of such orders, the commission may, upon like hearing, issue a supplemental order declaring the apportionment of such joint rate or rates, and the same shall take effect of its own force as part of the original order. In cases relating to the fixing, regulating or prescribing of joint rates of two or more transportation companies, such transportation companies may be joined in one proceeding before the commission. (Code 1876, §5682; Code 1886, §1132; Code 1896, §3493; Code 1907, §5681; Code 1923, §§9664, 9665; Code 1940, T. 48, §112.)
AL Code § 37-2-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-12 - Changes in Rates.

Section 37-2-12Changes in rates. No change shall be made in any rate, fare, charge or classification, or any rule, regulation or practice affecting such rate, fare, charge or classification, or the value of the service thereunder, specified in any effective tariff or schedule of rates of a transportation company, except after 30 days' notice of the proposed change, filed and posted in accordance with Section 37-2-10 and the rules and regulations of the commission adopted thereunder. Such notice shall plainly state the change proposed to be made and the time when such change will take effect. The commission may, in its discretion and for good cause shown, allow such change upon notice less than that herein specified. (Code 1907, §5525; Code 1923, §10021; Code 1940, T. 48, §113.)