Minnesota Session Laws - 1983, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1983 

                        CHAPTER 256--H.F.No. 904
           An act relating to transportation; establishing 
          collective rate-making procedure for motor vehicle 
          carriers; proposing new law coded in Minnesota 
          Statutes, chapter 221.  
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [221.165] [COLLECTIVE RATE-MAKING.] 
    In order to ensure nondiscriminatory rates and charges for 
shippers and receivers, the board shall establish a collective 
rate-making procedure which will ensure the publication and 
maintenance of just and reasonable rates and charges under 
uniform, reasonably related rate structures.  This procedure 
must provide for the joint consideration, initiation, and 
establishment of rates and charges, and must ensure that 
respective revenues and expenses of carriers engaged in such 
transportation are ascertained.  A participating carrier party 
to a collectively mandated rate or charge shall have the right 
to petition the board for the establishment of a rate or charge 
deviating from the collectively set rate.  Upon receiving board 
approval, the carrier may proceed to establish the requested 
rate or charge.  Motor carriers subject to rate regulation under 
this chapter are required to comply with the rate-making 
procedure. 
    Sec. 2.  [PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.] 
    Prior to the effective date of Laws 1980, chapter 534, as 
amended by Laws 1981, chapter 357, section 108, the public 
utilities commission shall perform the duties of the board under 
section 1. 
    Approved June 1, 1983