Missouri Laws 622.090 – Powers and duties of division of motor carrier and railroad safety
The jurisdiction, supervision, powers and duties of the motor carrier and railroad safety division herein created and established shall extend under this chapter:
(1) To all railroads within this state, and to all transportation of persons or property thereon, and to the person or corporation owning, leasing, operating or controlling the same, and to every person, corporation and entity that offers for transportation by railroad within this state hazardous or toxic materials as defined under the laws of this state or of the United States;
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 622.090
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Corporation: includes a corporation, company, association, limited liability company, limited liability partnership and joint stock association or company. See Missouri Laws 622.100
- Division: the division of motor carrier and railroad safety within the department of economic development. See Missouri Laws 622.100
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, governmental entity, and a firm or partnership. See Missouri Laws 622.100
- Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Railroad: includes every railroad and railway, other than street railroad, by whatsoever power operated for public use in the conveyance of persons or property for compensation, with all bridges, ferries, tunnels, equipment, switches, spurs, tracks, stations, real estate and terminal facilities of every kind used, operated, controlled or owned by or in connection with any such railroad. See Missouri Laws 622.100
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Street railroad: includes every railroad by whatsoever type of power operated, and all extensions and branches thereof and supplementary facilities thereto for public use in the conveyance of persons or property for compensation, mainly providing local transportation service upon the streets, highways and public places in a municipality, or in and adjacent to a municipality, and including all cars, buses and other rolling stock, equipment, switches, spurs, tracks, poles, wires, conduits, cables, subways, tunnels, stations, terminals and real estate of every kind used, operated or owned in connection therewith. See Missouri Laws 622.100
- Transportation of persons: includes every service in connection with or incidental to the safety, comfort or convenience of the person transported and the receipt, carriage and delivery of such person and the person's baggage. See Missouri Laws 622.100
- Transportation of property: includes any service in connection with the receiving, delivery, elevation, transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration, storage, and handling of the property transported. See Missouri Laws 622.100
- United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
(2) To all street railroads within this state, and to all transportation of persons or property thereon, and to the person or corporation owning, leasing, operating or controlling the street railroad;
(3) To the extent authorized in section 389.1005, to the operation of light rail, as defined in section 386.020, located wholly or in part within this state, and to all transportation of persons and their baggage on light rail within this state;
(4) To such portion of the lines of any other railroad, light rail or street railroad as lie within this state, and to the person, corporation or entity owning, leasing, operating or controlling the same, so far as concerns the construction, maintenance, equipment, terminal facilities and local transportation facilities and local transportation of persons or property within this state;
(5) To all motor carriers, railroad corporations, and street railroad corporations operating or doing business within this state;
(6) To all persons, corporations or partnerships engaged in the transportation of property or freight within the state; and
(7) To all corporations and persons whatsoever subject to the provisions of chapters 387, 388, 389, 390, and 391 and this chapter.