1999 Minnesota Statutes

     231.24 Complaint that rate is unreasonable; duty of 
  department. 

    Upon verified complaint of any person or of any corporation 
 that any rates of a household goods warehouse operator are 
 unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory, preferential, or in any 
 way in violation of law, the department shall proceed to 
 investigate the matters alleged in such complaint; and, for the 
 purposes of such investigation, they may require the attendance 
 of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and 
 documents.  If, upon the hearing, such rates are found to be 
 unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory, preferential, or in any 
 way in violation of law, the department shall make an order, 
 stating wherein the same are so unjust, unreasonable, 
 discriminatory, preferential, or in any way in violation of law, 
 and make rates which shall be substituted for those as to which 
 complaint is made.  Rates so made by the department shall be 
 deemed prima facie reasonable in all courts, and shall be in 
 full force during the pendency of any appeal or other 
 proceedings to review the action of the department in 
 establishing the same.  

    HIST: (5198) 1915 c 210 s 27; 1971 c 25 s 67; 1999 c 110 s 15