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AR Code § 23-13-224 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-224. Permits for contract carriers — Issuance

 (a) Subject to this subchapter, a permit for a contract carrier by motor vehicle shall be issued to any qualified applicant therefor authorizing in whole or in part the operations covered by the applications, if it is found that the applicant is fit, willing, and able to properly perform the service of a contract carrier by motor vehicle and to conform to the provisions of this subchapter and the lawful requirements and rules of the Arkansas Department of Transportation, and the proposed operation, to the extent authorized by the permit, will promote the public interest and the policy declared in § 23-13-202; otherwise the application shall be denied.  (b) No permit shall be issued by the department except upon a hearing at least twenty (20) days after service of notice to interested parties of the time and place thereof.  (c) In granting applications for permits, the department shall take into consideration:  (1) The reliability and financial condition of the applicant and his or her sense of responsibility toward the public;  (2) The transportation service being maintained by any railroad, street railway, or motor carrier;  (3) The likelihood of the proposed service being permanent and continuous throughout twelve (12) months of the year and the effect which the proposed transportation service may have upon existing transportation service; and  (4) Any other matters tending to show the necessity or want of necessity for granting the application.
AR Code § 23-13-225 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-225. Permits for contract carriers — Terms and conditions — Contracts for services

 (a) The State Highway Commission shall specify in the permit for a contract carrier by motor vehicle the business of the contract carrier covered thereby and the scope thereof. The commission shall attach to the permit, at the time of issuance, and from time to time thereafter, such reasonable terms, conditions, and limitations consistent with the character of the holder as a contract carrier as are necessary to carry out, with respect to the operations of such a carrier, the requirements established by the commission under this subchapter.  (b)  (1) The commission shall not issue any permit which will authorize any contract carrier to have in effect, at any one time, more than six (6) contracts, such contracts to be filed with and approved by the commission prior to granting of such authority.  (2) When any contract expires, the commission shall be given notice thereof, and if any new contract is substituted or added, the contract shall be filed with and approved by the commission before operation thereunder.    (c) No permit issued under this subchapter shall confer any proprietary or property rights in the use of public highways.
AR Code § 23-13-226 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-226. Dual operation

 No person shall at the same time hold under this subchapter a certificate as a common carrier and permit as a contract carrier authorizing operation for the transportation of property by motor vehicle over the same route or within the same territory, unless for good cause shown the Arkansas Department of Transportation shall find that the certificate and permit will promote the public interest and the policy declared in § 23-13-202.
AR Code § 23-13-228 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-228. Transportation of persons or property in interstate commerce on public highways unlawful without adequate surety

 It is declared unlawful for any motor carrier to use any of the public highways of this state for the transportation of persons or property in interstate commerce unless there is in force with respect to the motor carrier adequate surety for the protection of the public.
AR Code § 23-13-229 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-229. Temporary authority

 (a) To provide motor carrier service for which there is an urgent and immediate need to, from, or between points within a territory having no motor carrier service deemed capable of meeting that need, the Arkansas Department of Transportation in its discretion and without hearing or other proceeding may grant temporary authority for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days for the service by common or contract carrier, as the case may be. Satisfactory proof of the urgent and immediate need shall be made by affidavit or other verified proof, as the department shall prescribe.  (b) The temporary authority shall be granted only upon payment of a filing fee in the amount of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and compliance with the requirements of §§ 23-13-227 and 23-13-244. The filing fees shall be collected by the department to be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Revenue Fund Account of the State Apportionment Fund.  (c) After the temporary authority is granted, the department shall notify any carrier already authorized to perform all or any part of the service so authorized temporarily. Upon application in writing by the carrier, the department shall hold such hearings and make such further determination with respect to such temporary authority as the public interest shall require.  (d) The grant of temporary authority shall not be extended for any cause.  (e) Issuance of such temporary authority shall create no presumption that corresponding permanent authority will be granted thereafter.
AR Code § 23-13-230 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-230. Brokers — Licenses — Rules for protection of public

 (a)  (1) A person shall not for compensation sell or offer for sale transportation subject to this subchapter; make any contract, agreement, or arrangement to provide, procure, furnish, or arrange for such transportation; or hold himself or herself or itself out by advertisements, solicitation, or otherwise as one who sells, provides, procures, contracts, or arranges for such transportation unless that person holds a broker's license issued by the Arkansas Department of Transportation to engage in such transactions.  (2) In the execution of any contract, agreement, or arrangement to sell, provide, procure, furnish, or arrange for such transportation, it shall be unlawful for such a person to employ any carrier by motor vehicle who or which is not the lawful holder of an effective certificate or permit issued as provided in this subchapter.  (3) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any carrier holding a certificate or a permit under the provisions of this subchapter or to any bona fide employee or agent of such a motor carrier, so far as concerns transportation to be furnished wholly by such a carrier or jointly with other motor carriers holding like certificates or permits or with a common carrier by railroad, express, or water.    (b) A brokerage license shall be issued to any qualified applicant therefor, authorizing the whole or any part of the operations covered by the application, if it is found that the applicant is fit, willing, and able properly to perform the service proposed and to conform to the provisions of this subchapter and the requirements and rules of the department thereunder and that the proposed service, to the extent authorized by the license, will promote the public interest and policy declared in this subchapter; otherwise the application shall be denied.  (c) The department shall prescribe reasonable rules for the protection of travelers or shippers by motor vehicle, to be observed by any person holding a brokerage license. No such license shall be issued or remain in force unless the person shall have furnished a bond or other security approved by the department, in such form and amount as will insure financial responsibility and the supplying of authorized transportation in accordance with contracts, agreements, or arrangements therefor.  (d) The department and its agents shall have the same authority as to accounts, reports, and records, including inspection and preservation thereof, of any person holding a brokerage license issued under the provisions of this section, that they have under this subchapter with respect to motor carriers subject thereto.
AR Code § 23-13-231 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-231. Certificates, permits, and licenses — Effective dates

 Certificates, permits, and licenses shall be effective from the date specified therein and shall remain in effect until terminated as provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 23-13-232 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-232. Certificates, permits, and licenses — Transfer, assignment, etc

 (a) Certificates, permits, and licenses shall not be assigned, transferred, or hypothecated in any manner, nor shall the operation under any such permit, certificate, or license be leased without authority of the Arkansas Department of Transportation and on written application, and after ten (10) days' notice, to parties in interest and hearing.  (b) The transfer, lease, assignment, or hypothecation of the permits, certificates, or licenses shall not be authorized when the department finds the action will be inconsistent with the public interest or will have the effect of destroying competition or creating a monopoly, nor where it appears that reasonably continuous service under the authority or that part of the authority granted by the permit, certificate, or license which is sought to be transferred has not been rendered prior to the application for transfer, assignment, or hypothecation.  (c)  (1) All applications for transfer must be made on proper forms prescribed by the department.  (2) There must be attached to such application for a transfer of a certificate, permit, or license a joint affidavit executed by the vendor and vendee certifying that all accrued taxes, station rents, wages of employees, and all other indebtedness incident to the vendor's operation have been paid in full or, if such is not the case, will be assumed by the vendee. Provided, the provisions of this subsection shall not apply in any respect to either the vendor or the vendee, where the vendor has filed for protection under the federal bankruptcy laws and is transferring the authority as part of a reorganization or liquidation under an order directing the sale entered under the federal bankruptcy laws.    (d) Every such application for the transfer of a certificate or permit shall be accompanied by a certified check or money order in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) made payable to the department. The funds shall be collected by the department to be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Revenue Fund Account of the State Apportionment Fund.
AR Code § 23-13-233 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-233. Certificates, permits, and licenses — Amendment, revocation, and suspension

 (a) Any certificates, permits, or licenses, upon application of the holder thereof and in the discretion of the Arkansas Department of Transportation, may be amended or revoked, in whole or in part, or may upon complaint or on the department's own initiative, after notice and hearing, be suspended, changed, or revoked, in whole or in part, for:  (1) Willful failure to comply with any provision of this subchapter, with any lawful order or rule of the department promulgated thereunder, or with any term, condition, or limitation of the certificate, permit, or license;  (2) Failure to render reasonably continuous service in the transportation of all of the commodities authorized to be transported over all of the routes authorized to be traversed;  (3) Failure to file a complete annual motor carrier report pursuant to Acts 1927, No. 129, as amended; or  (4) Failure to timely pay ad valorem property taxes.    (b) It is the intent of this section to require the department to suspend or revoke, after notice and hearing as hereafter provided, all or such part of the authority granted by any certificate which is not exercised reasonably continuously.  (c) No certificate, permit, or license shall be revoked, except under application of the holder or violation of § 23-13-227, unless the holder thereof willfully fails to comply within a reasonable time, not less than thirty (30) days, to be fixed by the department, with a lawful order of the department commanding obedience to the provisions of this subchapter, or to the rules of the department, or to the terms, conditions, or limitation of such certificate, permit, or license found by the department to have been violated by the holder.
AR Code § 23-13-234 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-234. Operation without certificate or permit prohibited — Violation of terms, conditions, etc., of certificate, permit, or license prohibited

 (a)  (1) Any motor carrier using the highways of this state without first having obtained a permit or certificate from the Arkansas Department of Transportation, as provided by this subchapter, or who, being a holder thereof, violates any term, condition, or provision thereof shall be subject to a civil penalty to be collected by the department, after notice and hearing, in an amount not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).  (2) If the penalty is not paid within ten (10) days from the date of the order of the department assessing the penalty, twenty-five percent (25%) thereof shall be added to the penalty.  (3) Any amounts collected from the penalties provided for under this subsection shall be deposited by the department into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Revenue Fund Account of the State Apportionment Fund.    (b)  (1) Any person required by this subchapter to obtain a certificate of convenience and necessity as a common carrier or a permit as a contract carrier and operates as such a carrier without doing so shall be guilty of a violation. Upon conviction, he or she shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for the first such offense and not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each subsequent offense.  (2) Each day of the violation shall be a separate offense.    (c)  (1) Any person violating any other provision or any term or condition of any certificate, permit, or license, except as otherwise provided in § 23-13-258, shall be guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100) for the first offense and not more than five hundred dollars ($500) for any subsequent offense.  (2) Each day of the violation shall constitute a separate offense.  (3) In addition thereto, the person shall be subject to the civil penalties provided in subsection (a) of this section.
AR Code § 23-13-235 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-235. Annual fees charged carriers — Remittance — Disposition of funds

 (a)  (1) From each common or contract carrier of passengers or property, there shall be collected an annual fee for the registration of insurance. The annual registration fee to be collected from each common or contract carrier of passengers or property holding only a certificate or permit issued pursuant to this subchapter shall be five dollars ($5.00) for each bus, truck, or truck-tractor of the carrier to be operated in this state.  (2) The annual registration fee for the registration of insurance to be collected from any other carrier, including a carrier holding a certificate or permit issued by the United States Surface Transportation Board, on behalf of the State of Arkansas shall be collected under the base state registration program and shall be five dollars ($5.00) per motor vehicle.  (3) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall also collect fees under the base state registration program on behalf of and for all other participating states of travel from all carriers based in the State of Arkansas. All fees collected on behalf of other participating states shall be collected in the amount required by that state and remitted to that state under the rules adopted by the United States Surface Transportation Board.    (b) All fees as set out in this section shall be due and payable on or before January 1 of each year to cover the ensuing calendar year. However, the fees to be collected from the holders of temporary authority shall be due and payable before the authority is first exercised.  (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring the payment of more than the fees for each bus, truck, or truck-tractor so used as set out in subsection (a) of this section, but the fee shall be paid annually for each motor vehicle, as the term “motor vehicle” is defined in rules of the United States Surface Transportation Board.  (d) Failure on the part of any person or carrier to pay the annual registration fees as provided in this section shall be a violation of this subchapter, and upon conviction the person or carrier shall be punished as provided in § 23-13-257.
AR Code § 23-13-236 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-236. Common carriers — Duties as to transportation of passengers and property — Rates, charges, rules, etc

 (a) It shall be the duty of every common carrier of passengers by motor vehicle:  (1) To establish reasonable through routes with other common carriers and to provide safe and adequate service, equipment, and facilities for the transportation of passengers;  (2) To establish, observe, and enforce just and reasonable individual and joint rates, fares, and charges, and just and reasonable rules and practices relating thereto and relating to the issuance, form, and substance of tickets; the carrying of personal, sample, and excess baggage; the facilities for transportation; and all other matters relating to or connected with the transportation of passengers; and  (3) In case of joint rates, fares, and charges, to establish just, reasonable, and equitable divisions thereof as between the carriers participating therein which shall not unduly prefer or prejudice any of the participating carriers.    (b) It shall be the duty of every common carrier of property by motor vehicle:  (1) To provide safe and adequate service, equipment, and facilities for the transportation of property; and  (2) To establish, observe, and enforce just and reasonable rates, charges, and classifications and just and reasonable rules and practices relating thereto, and relating to the manner and method of presenting, marking, packing, and delivering property for transportation, the facilities for transportation, and all other matters relating to or connected with the transportation of property.
AR Code § 23-13-237 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-237. Common carriers — Rates, fares, and charges to be just and reasonable — Unreasonable preferences or advantages prohibited

 (a) All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered by any common carrier by motor vehicle engaged in the transportation of passengers or property as provided in § 23-13-236, or in connection therewith, shall be just and reasonable. Every unjust and unreasonable charge for such a service or any part thereof is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.  (b) It shall be unlawful for any common carrier by motor vehicle to make, give, or cause any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, port, gateway, locality, region, district, territory, or description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever or to subject any particular person, gateway, locality, region, district, territory, or description of traffic to any unjust discrimination or any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever.  (c) This shall not be construed to apply to discrimination, prejudices, or disadvantages to the traffic of any other carrier of whatever description.
AR Code § 23-13-238 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-238. Common carriers — Rates, fares, rules, etc. — Complaints

 Any person, state board, organization, or body politic may make complaint in writing to the Arkansas Department of Transportation that any rate, fare, charge, classification, rule, or practice in effect or proposed to be put into effect is or will be in violation of this subchapter.
AR Code § 23-13-239 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries|Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers|Chapter 13 - Motor Carriers|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Motor Carrier Act, 1955|§ 23-13-239. Common carriers — Rates, fares, rules, etc. — Determination by department

 (a)  (1) Whenever, after hearing, upon complaint, or in an investigation on its own initiative, the Arkansas Department of Transportation shall be of the opinion that any individual or joint rate, fare, or charge, demanded, charged, or collected by any common carriers by railroad, express, or water for transportation, or that any classification, rule, or practice whatsoever of the carriers affecting the rate, fare, or charge or the value of the service thereunder, is or will be unjust or unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, or unduly prejudicial, it shall determine and prescribe the lawful rate, fare, or charge or the maximum or minimum rate, fare, or charge thereafter to be observed, or the lawful classification, rule, or practice thereafter to be made effective.  (2) Whenever deemed by it to be necessary or desirable in the public interest, after hearing, upon complaint, the department shall establish through routes and joint rates, fares, charges, rules, or practices applicable to the transportation of passengers by common carriers by motor vehicle or establish the maximum or minimum rates, fares, or charges to be charged and the terms and conditions under which the through routes shall be operated.    (b) Nothing in this subchapter shall empower the department to prescribe or in any manner regulate the rate, fare, or charge for interstate transportation or for any service connected therewith.