North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 04 - COMMERCE › Chapter 11 - UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 4 - FILING OF TRANSPORTATION TARIFFS › Section 11 R04-02 - REQUIREMENTS AS TO SIZE, FORM IDENTIFICATION AND FILING OF TARIFFS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) All tariffs and supplements thereto shall
				be in book, pamphlet, or loose-leaf form of size 8 x 11 inches, and shall be
				plainly printed, planographed, stereotyped, or reproduced by other similar
				durable process on paper of good quality. No alteration in writing or erasure
				shall be made in any tariff or supplement thereto. The size requirement of this
				rule is not applicable to railway express carriers.
(b) A margin of not less than five eighths of
				an inch, without any printing thereon, shall be allowed at the binding edge of
				each tariff or supplement thereto.
(c) An N.C.U.C. number or a tariff serial
				number of the issuing carrier shall be shown on the title page of the tariff.
				The N.C.U.C. numbers shall run consecutively beginning with the number
				immediately following the last number utilized; or, if no tariffs have been
				issued previously, the numbering shall begin with N.C.U.C. No. 1 and continue
				in consecutive order. If issuing carrier uses a tariff number in lieu of an
				N.C.U.C. number, each tariff must bear a serial number of the issuing carrier,
				and as each such tariff is reissued the number must be retained and letter
				suffixes in sequence beginning with "A" be added to the numeral; and when the
				alphabet is thus exhausted the reissue of the tariff carrying the suffix "Z"
				will be given the suffixes "A", "B", etc., thus starting over again with the
				alphabet. Immediately under the N.C.U.C. number or the tariff serial number, as
				the case may be, the N.C.U.C. number or the tariff serial number of the tariff
				canceled thereby shall be shown. Revised pages to loose-leaf tariffs shall also
				be properly identified.
(d) When it
				is desired to make changes in the rates, ratings, rules, or other provisions of
				a tariff, other than a loose-leaf tariff, without reissuing the tariff, a
				supplement constructed generally in the same manner as is the tariff which it
				supplements may be issued to the tariff.
(1)
				The supplement numbers of supplements issued to a tariff may be designated on
				the upper right-hand corner of the title page as
Supplement No. 1
to
N.C.U.C. No. __
or may be designated in the upper central portion of the
				  title page; or if tariff bears no N.C.U.C. number the first supplement number
				  shall be designated immediately above the freight tariff number, as
Supplement No. 1
to
Tariff No. __
(2) Subsequent supplements shall be numbered
				consecutively in like manner. Each supplement shall specify on its title page
				immediately under the supplement number and N.C.U.C. number or tariff number of
				the tariff supplemented, the publications which the supplement cancels and
				shall also specify the supplements that are in effect.
(3) When purely intrastate supplements are
				issued to tariffs containing both interstate and intrastate rates, ratings,
				rules or other provisions, such supplements may be assigned the number of the
				last I.C.C. supplement with capital letters of the alphabet (used
				consecutively) added, such as "5A", except that if any intrastate supplements
				be issued prior to Supplement No. 1, such intrastate supplements are to be
				identified with capital letters of the alphabet used consecutively, such as
				"A", "B", etc.
(4) The matter
				contained in each supplement shall be arranged in the same general manner and
				order as in the tariff which it amends and when points in a tariff are given
				index or item numbers the same index or item number, as the case may be, must
				be assigned to the same point in all supplements to the tariff.
(5) Except as may be otherwise provided in
				these rules, a tariff of six (6) pages or less may not have in effect at any
				time more than two (2) supplements; not more than three (3) supplements may be
				in effect at any time to a tariff containing seven (7) and not more than
				sixteen (16) pages; not more than four (4) supplements may be in effect at any
				time to a tariff containing seventeen (17) and not more than eighty (80) pages;
				not more than five (5) supplements may be in effect at any time to a tariff
				containing eighty-one (81) and not more than two hundred (200) pages, and not
				more than six (6) supplements may be in effect at any time to a tariff
				containing more than two hundred (200) pages. The supplemental matter
				hereinabove mentioned may in the aggregate be not more than fifty (50) percent
				of the number of pages in the involved tariff including the title page thereof,
				except it may exceed the volume authorized only to the extent necessary to
				complete the page of supplemental matter when the tariff is not evenly
				divisible to equal fifty (50) percent. For example, a tariff with nineteen (19)
				pages, title page inclusive, may not have in effect at any time more than four
				(4) supplements thereto or an aggregate of ten (10) pages of supplemental
				matter. Except further, that suspension supplements and supplements containing
				only suspended matter and issued as a result of an order of the North Carolina
				Utilities Commission shall not be included in the number of supplements or
				aggregate of pages of supplemental matter as hereinabove enumerated. Except
				further, that the title page of no supplement shall be included in the
				aggregate of the supplemental matter.