2007 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.
History: (5198) 1915 c 210 s 27; 1971 c 25 s 67; 1999 c 110 s 15