2007 Minnesota Statutes

231.11 SCHEDULE OF RATES; STORING HOUSEHOLD GOODS.
    Subdivision 1. Filing; inspection. A household goods warehouse operator must file with the
department and keep open for public inspection a printed schedule of rates and charges complying
with subdivision 2. All tariffs of rates and charges must contain terms and conditions under which
the rates and charges are assessed.
    Subd. 2. Rate-making procedure. In order to ensure nondiscriminatory rates and charges
for all depositors of household goods, the commissioner 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. These procedures must provide for
the joint consideration, initiation, and establishment of rates and charges and ensure that the
respective revenues and expenses of household goods warehouse operators are ascertained. Any
participating household goods warehouse operator party to a collectively mandated rate or charge
has the right to petition the commissioner for the establishment of a rate or charge which deviates
from the collectively set rate. Upon receiving the commissioner's approval, that household
goods warehouse operator may proceed to establish the requested rate or charge. All household
goods warehouse operators subject to rate regulation under this chapter must comply with the
commissioner's rate-making procedures. No household goods warehouse operator shall undertake
to perform any service or store any household goods until a schedule of rates has been filed and
published in accordance with this chapter. In case of emergency, however, a service or storage not
specifically covered by the schedules filed, may be performed or furnished at a reasonable rate,
which must then be promptly filed, and which is subject to review in accordance with this chapter.
History: (5184) 1915 c 210 s 13; 1971 c 25 s 67; 1983 c 300 s 24; 1986 c 444; 1993 c 212
s 2; 1999 c 110 s 6; 2005 c 92 s 7