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MO Rev Stat § 386.560 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.560 - Mishandling records — false statements — penalty — order provisions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   386.560. Mishandling records — false statements — penalty — order provisions. — Any person who shall willfully make any false entry in the accounts, books of account, records or memoranda kept by any corporation, person or public utility governed by the provisions of this chapter, or who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, alter or by any other means or device falsify the record of any such account, book of accounts, record or memoranda, or who shall willfully neglect or fail to make full, true and correct entries of such account, book of accounts, record or memoranda of all facts and transactions appertaining to the business of such corporations, persons or public utilities, or who shall falsely make any statement required to be made to the public service commission, in which a penalty has not heretofore been provided for, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than two years nor more than five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, that the commission may, in its discretion, issue orders specifying such operating, accounting or financial papers, records, books, blanks, tickets, stubs or documents, of carriers which may after a reasonable time be destroyed, and prescribing the length of time such books, papers or documents shall be preserved; and provided further, that such orders shall be in harmony with those of the Interstate Commerce Commission. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5708)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5252; 1919 § 10539
MO Rev Stat § 386.570 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.570 - Violation of orders — penalty — act of employee declared act of public utility.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   386.570. Violation of orders — penalty — act of employee declared act of public utility. — 1. Any corporation, person or public utility which violates or fails to comply with any provision of the constitution of this state or of this or any other law, or which fails, omits or neglects to obey, observe or comply with any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand or requirement, or any part or provision thereof, of the commission in a case in which a penalty has not herein been provided for such corporation, person or public utility, is subject to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars for each offense.  2. Every violation of the provisions of this or any other law or of any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand or requirement of the commission, or any part or portion thereof, by any corporation or person or public utility is a separate and distinct offense, and in case of a continuing violation each day's continuance thereof shall be and be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense.  3. In construing and enforcing the provisions of this chapter relating to penalties, the act, omission or failure of any officer, agent or employee of any corporation, person or public utility, acting within the scope of his official duties of employment, shall in every case be and be deemed to be the act, omission or failure of such corporation, person or public utility. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5710)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5254; 1919 § 10541
MO Rev Stat § 386.580 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.580 - Employee of public utility guilty of misdemeanor, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   386.580. Employee of public utility guilty of misdemeanor, when. — Every officer, agent or employee of any corporation or public utility, who violates or fails to comply with, or who procures, aids or abets any violation by any corporation, person or public utility of any provision of the constitution of this state or of this or any other law, or who fails to obey, observe or comply with any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand or requirement, or any part or provision thereof, of the commission, or who procures, aids or abets any corporation, person or public utility in their or its failure to obey, observe and comply with any such order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand or requirement, or any part or provision thereof, in a case in which a penalty has not herein been provided for such officer, agent or employee, is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5711)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5255; 1919 § 10542
MO Rev Stat § 386.590 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.590 - Penalties cumulative.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   386.590. Penalties cumulative. — All penalties accruing under this chapter shall be cumulative of each other, and the suit for the recovery of one penalty shall not be a bar to or affect the recovery of any other penalty or forfeiture or be a bar to any original prosecution against any corporation, person or public utility, or any officer, director, agent or employee thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5709)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5253; 1919 § 10540
MO Rev Stat § 386.600 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.600 - Actions to recover penalties or forfeitures.

Effective - 28 Aug 1977   386.600. Actions to recover penalties or forfeitures. — An action to recover a penalty or a forfeiture under this chapter or to enforce the powers of the commission under this or any other law may be brought in any circuit court in this state in the name of the state of Missouri and shall be commenced and prosecuted to final judgment by the general counsel to the commission. No filing or docket fee shall be required of the general counsel. In any such action all penalties and forfeitures incurred up to the time of commencing the same may be sued for and recovered therein, and the commencement of an action to recover a penalty or forfeiture shall not be, or be held to be, a waiver of the right to recover any other penalty or forfeiture; if the defendant in such action shall prove that during any portion of the time for which it is sought to recover penalties or forfeitures for a violation of an order or decision of the commission the defendant was actually and in good faith prosecuting a suit to review such order or decision in the manner as provided in this chapter, the court shall remit the penalties or forfeitures incurred during the pendency of such proceeding. All moneys recovered as a penalty or forfeiture shall be paid to the public school fund of the state. Any such action may be compromised or discontinued on application of the commission upon such terms as the court shall approve and order. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5685, A.L. 1977 H.B. 42 & 157)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5229; 1919 § 10517  (1964) The venue of actions to recover penalties or forfeitures, when instituted by summons, is determined by the provisions of section 501.010, RSMo. State v. Thompson (A.), 379 S.W.2d 824.
MO Rev Stat § 386.610 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.610 - Substantial compliance with requirements of this chapter sufficient.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   386.610. Substantial compliance with requirements of this chapter sufficient. — A substantial compliance with the requirements of this chapter shall be sufficient to give effect to all the rules, orders, acts and regulations of the commission, and they shall not be declared inoperative, illegal or void for any omission of a technical nature in respect thereto. The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed with a view to the public welfare, efficient facilities and substantial justice between patrons and public utilities. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5707)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5251; 1919 § 10538
MO Rev Stat § 386.700 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.700 - Public counsel authorized — qualifications — compensation, how fixed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1977   386.700. Public counsel authorized — qualifications — compensation, how fixed. — The director of the department of economic development shall appoint a public counsel to serve at the pleasure of the director of the department. The public counsel shall be an attorney at law licensed to practice law in this state and whose salary shall be fixed by the department director within the appropriation made therefor. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 42 & 157)
MO Rev Stat § 386.710 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.710 - Powers of public counsel.

Effective - 28 Aug 1977   386.710. Powers of public counsel. — 1. The public counsel shall have the following powers and duties:  (1) He shall employ a staff or hire on a contract basis such employees and experts as are necessary to carry out the purposes and responsibilities of his office, and shall set their compensation within the appropriation made for that purpose;  (2) He may represent and protect the interests of the public in any proceeding before or appeal from the public service commission;  (3) He shall have discretion to represent or refrain from representing the public in any proceeding. He shall consider in exercising his discretion the importance and the extent of the public interest involved and whether that interest would be adequately represented without the action of his office. If the public counsel determines that there are conflicting public interests involved in a particular matter, he may choose to represent one such interest based upon the considerations of this section, to represent no interest in that matter, or to represent one interest and certify to the director of the department of economic development that there is a significant public interest which he cannot represent without creating a conflict of interest and which will not be protected by any party to the proceeding. The director of the department shall select an attorney, to be paid from funds appropriated for this purpose, to represent that segment of the public certified to him by the public counsel as unrepresented. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the right of any person, firm or corporation specified in subsection 1 of section 386.390 to petition or make complaint to the commission or otherwise intervene in proceedings or other matters before the commission.  2. The public counsel shall be served with all proposed tariffs, initial pleadings, and applications, in all proceedings before the public service commission, and shall be served with a copy of all orders of the commission.  3. Nothing in sections 386.071, 386.150, 386.155, 386.170, 386.200, 386.330, 386.360, 386.390, 386.400, 386.410, 386.420, 386.440, 386.450, 386.480, 386.500, 386.530, 386.540, 386.600, 386.700 and 386.710, shall be construed or interpreted to mean that the public counsel shall not have the right to appeal any and all orders of the public service commission to the courts which right of appeal exists and has existed since the time of transfer as provided in section 386.500.  4. He shall have all powers necessary or proper to carry out the duties specified in this section. ­­-------- (L. 1977 H.B. 42 & 157)
MO Rev Stat § 386.754 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.754 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   386.754. Definitions. — For the purposes of sections 386.754 to 386.764, the following terms mean:  (1) "Affiliate", any entity not regulated by the public service commission which is owned, controlled by or under common control with a utility and is engaged in HVAC services;  (2) "HVAC services", the warranty, sale, lease, rental, installation, construction, modernization, retrofit, maintenance or repair of heating, ventilating and air conditioning equipment;  (3) "Utility", an electrical corporation, gas corporation or heating company, as defined in section 386.020;  (4) "Utility contractor", a person, including an individual, corporation, firm, incorporated or unincorporated association or other business or legal entity, that contracts, whether in writing or not in writing, with a utility to engage in or assist any entity in engaging in HVAC services, but does not include employees of a utility. ­­-------- (L. 1998 H.B. 1038)
MO Rev Stat § 386.760 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.760 - Public service commission to administer and ensure compliance — promulgation of rules.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   386.760. Public service commission to administer and ensure compliance — promulgation of rules. — 1. The public service commission shall have full authority to administer and ensure compliance with sections 386.754 to 386.764, provided that the commission shall not impose, by rule or otherwise, requirements regarding HVAC services that are inconsistent with or in addition to those set forth in sections 386.754 to 386.764 or with requirements set forth in section 386.315.  2. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the provisions of sections 386.754 to 386.764 shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536. ­­-------- (L. 1998 H.B. 1038)
MO Rev Stat § 386.762 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.762 - Authority of public service commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   386.762. Authority of public service commission. — The public service commission shall have authority to:  (1) Review, inspect and audit books, accounts and other records kept by a utility or affiliate for the sole purpose of ensuring compliance with sections 386.754 to 386.764 and make findings available to the commission; and  (2) Investigate the operations of a utility or affiliate and their relationship to each other for the sole purpose of ensuring compliance with sections 386.754 to 386.764. ­­-------- (L. 1998 H.B. 1038)
MO Rev Stat § 386.764 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.764 - Construction of certain statutes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   386.764. Construction of certain statutes. — Nothing in sections 386.754 to 386.764 shall be construed as modifying existing legal standards regarding which party has the burden of proof in commission proceedings. ­­-------- (L. 1998 H.B. 1038)
MO Rev Stat § 386.805 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 386 - Public Service Commission|Section 386.805 - Electric vehicle charging station considered an addition or expansion of existing structure, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2019   386.805. Electric vehicle charging station considered an addition or expansion of existing structure, when. — For purposes of sections 91.025, 386.800, 393.106, 394.080, and 394.315 only, when municipally owned electric utilities or rural electric cooperatives are lawfully providing electric service to a structure outside of their respective service area boundaries, an electric vehicle charging station reasonably proximate to such structure served by such municipally owned electric utility or rural electric cooperative shall be considered a contiguous or adjacent addition to or an expansion of an existing structure. ­­-------- (L. 2019 H.B. 355)
MO Rev Stat § 387.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 387 - Motor Carriers Generally|Section 387.010 - Application of chapter.

Effective - 28 Aug 1996   387.010. Application of chapter. — The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the transportation of passengers or household goods from one point to another within this state, and to any motor carrier, as defined in section 390.020, performing such service. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to railroad corporations or street railroad corporations, except to the extent they engage in business as motor carriers of passengers or household goods. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5602, A.L. 1996 S.B. 780)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5146; 1919 § 10435  CROSS REFERENCE:  Public service commission, powers and duties as to common carriers, 386.320
MO Rev Stat § 387.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 387 - Motor Carriers Generally|Section 387.020 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1996   387.020. Definitions. — The provisions of sections 390.020 and 622.100 defining words, phrases and terms shall apply to and determine the meaning of all such words, phrases or terms as used in sections 387.010 to 387.340. ­­-------- (1949 H.B. 2100 § 387.02, A.L. 1996 S.B. 780)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Definitions applicable to this chapter, 622.100
MO Rev Stat § 387.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 387 - Motor Carriers Generally|Section 387.030 - Motor carrier shall furnish safe and adequate service — unreasonable charges prohibited.

Effective - 28 Aug 1996   387.030. Motor carrier shall furnish safe and adequate service — unreasonable charges prohibited. — Every corporation, person or motor carrier performing a service designated in section 387.010 shall furnish, with respect thereto, such service and facilities as shall be safe and adequate and in all respects just and reasonable. All charges made or demanded by any such corporation, person or motor carrier for the transportation of passengers or household goods or for any service rendered or to be rendered in connection therewith, as defined in section 386.020, shall be just and reasonable and not more than allowed by law or by order or decision of the division of motor carrier and railroad safety and made as authorized by this chapter. Every unjust or unreasonable charge made or demanded for any such service or transportation of passengers or household goods or in connection therewith or in excess of that allowed by law or by order or decision of the division is prohibited. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5603, A.L. 1996 S.B. 780)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5147; 1919 § 10436  CROSS REFERENCES:  Division of motor carrier and railroad safety abolished, duties and functions transferred to highways and transportation commission and department of transportation, 226.008  Railroad carriers may operate aerial or motor vehicle service, 388.260, 388.270
MO Rev Stat § 387.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 387 - Motor Carriers Generally|Section 387.040 - Transportation prohibited until schedule of rates and fares is filed and published — exception, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2012, 2 histories   387.040. Transportation prohibited until schedule of rates and fares is filed and published — exception, when. — 1. No motor carrier subject to the provisions of this chapter shall engage or participate in the transportation of passengers, between points within this state, until its schedules of rates, fares and charges shall have been filed with the state highways and transportation commission and published in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Any motor carrier, which shall undertake to perform any service or furnish any product or commodity unless or until the rates, tolls, fares, charges, classifications and rules and regulations relating thereto, applicable to such service, product or commodity, have been filed with the highways and transportation commission and published in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, shall be subject to forfeiture to the state pursuant to the provisions of sections 390.156 to 390.176.  2. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or chapter 390 to the contrary, a motor carrier transporting household goods in intrastate commerce shall not be required to file its schedule of rates, fares, and charges with the state highways and transportation commission. In lieu of filing its schedules of rates, fares, charges, rules, or tolls with the state highways and transportation commission, a motor carrier transporting household goods in intrastate commerce shall maintain and publish its schedules of rates, fares, charges, rules, and tolls in every station or office as described in subsection 3 of section 387.050 and such rates shall be available for inspection by the state highways and transportation commission, shippers, and the public upon request. Any motor carrier transporting household goods in intrastate commerce that fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be subject to forfeiture to the state pursuant to the provisions of sections 390.156 to 390.176. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5611, A. 1949 H.B. 2100, A.L. 1996 S.B. 780, A.L. 2009 H.B. 683, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1402 merged with S.B. 470)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5155; 1919 § 10444
MO Rev Stat § 387.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 387 - Motor Carriers Generally|Section 387.070 - Changes in schedule — notice required.

Effective - 28 Aug 1996   387.070. Changes in schedule — notice required. — Unless the division of motor carrier and railroad safety otherwise orders, no change shall be made in any rate, fare or charge, or joint rate, fare or charge, which shall have been filed and published by a motor carrier in compliance with the requirements of this chapter except after thirty days' notice to the division and publication for thirty days as required by this chapter, which shall plainly state the changes proposed to be made in the schedule then in force, and the time when the changed rate, fare or charge will go into effect and all proposed changes shall be shown by printing, filing and publishing new schedules or shall be plainly indicated upon the schedules in force at the time and kept open to public inspection. The division, for good cause shown, may allow changes in rates without requiring the thirty days' notice and publication herein provided for, by duly filing and publishing in such manner as it may direct an order specifying the change so made and the time when it shall take effect; all such changes shall be immediately indicated upon its schedules by the motor carrier. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5607, A.L. 1996 S.B. 780)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 5151; 1919 § 10440