Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart B - Carriers of Passengers or Property › Chapter 23 - TARIFFS FOR COMMON CARRIERS › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 23.1 - Definitions and applicability

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
Definitions.
The following words and terms, when used in this
					 chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
Common carrier
or
carrier
-A person or corporation holding out, offering or
						undertaking, directly or indirectly, service for compensation to the public for
						the transportation of passengers or household goods in use, or both, or any
						class of passengers or household goods in use, between points within this
						Commonwealth by, through, over, above or under land, water or air, including
						forwarders, but not motor common carriers of property, group and party carriers
						of more than 15 passengers, contract carriers, brokers or any bona fide
						cooperative association transporting property exclusively for the members of
						the association on a nonprofit basis.
Contract carrier
-A person or corporation
						who or which provides or furnishes transportation of passengers or household
						goods in use, or both, or any class of passengers or household goods in use,
						between points within this Commonwealth by motor vehicle for compensation,
						whether or not the owner or operator of the motor vehicle, or who or which
						provides or furnishes, with or without drivers, any motor vehicle for the
						transportation, or for use in transportation, other than as a common carrier by
						motor vehicle, but not including any of the following:
(i) A lessor under a lease given on a bona
					 fide sale of a motor vehicle where the lessor retains or assumes no
					 responsibility for maintenance, supervision or control of the motor vehicle
					 sold.
(ii) A bona fide
					 agricultural, cooperative association transporting property exclusively for the
					 members of the association on a nonprofit basis or any independent contractor
					 hauling exclusively for the association.
(iii) An owner or operator of a farm
					 transporting agricultural products from, or farm supplies to, the farm, or an
					 independent contractor hauling agricultural products or farm supplies,
					 exclusively, for one or more owners or operators of farms.
(iv) Transportation of school children in any
					 motor vehicle owned by any school district, or operated under contract with any
					 school district, for which transportation is lawfully paid by the school
					 district from district funds.
(v) A
					 person or corporation who or which uses, or furnishes for use, dump trucks for
					 the transportation of ashes, rubbish, excavated or road construction
					 materials.
(vi) Transportation of
					 voting machines to and from polling places by any person or corporation for or
					 on behalf of any political subdivision of this Commonwealth for use in any
					 primary, general or special election.
Operating ratio
-The operating ratio at
						present rates shall be calculated as a ratio of intrastate operating expenses
						to intrastate operating revenues, where the numerator includes operations and
						maintenance expense, annual depreciation, applicable taxes, and the denominator
						consists of the utility's intrastate operating revenues at present rates,
						including all surcharges.
Rate
-An individual or joint fare, toll,
						charge, rental or other compensation of a public utility, other than a motor
						common carrier of property in its transportation of property, or contract
						carrier by motor vehicle, made, demanded or received for jurisdictional
						service, offered, rendered or furnished by the public utility, other than a
						motor carrier of property in its transportation of property, or contract
						carrier by motor vehicle, whether in currency, legal tender or evidence
						thereof, in kind, in services or in another medium or manner, and whether
						received directly or indirectly, and rules, regulations, practices,
						classifications or contracts affecting the compensation, charge, fare, toll or
						rental.
Tariff
-Schedules of rates, rules,
						regulations, practices or contracts involving any rate, including contracts for
						interchange of service and, in the case of a common carrier, other than a
						common carrier of property in the transportation of property, schedules showing
						the method of distribution of the facilities of the common
						carrier.