(a) Every common carrier whenever required by the commission shall, within a time to be fixed by the commission, deliver to the commission for its use, copies of all contracts which relate to the transportation of persons or property or any service in connection therewith, made or entered into by it with any other common carrier or any shipper or shippers, producers or consumers or other person or persons doing business with it;
    (b) Every common carrier shall, on or before the first day of February, 1910, and annually thereafter and oftener if required by the commission, file with the commission a verified list of all free tickets, free passes and free transportation issued or given by it during the year ending the thirty-first day of December preceding, together with the full names and addresses of recipients thereof and the reason for issuing the same: Provided, That this section shall not be deemed to require the filing of a list of such free tickets, free passes and free transportation issued or given by such common carrier to its employes or their families, its officers, agents, surgeons, physicians or attorneys-at-law and members of their families, or the officers, agents, attorneys and employes of other common carriers and their families, except such list be specially ordered by the commission.

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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 462.29

  • common carrier: as used in this act shall be construed to mean and embrace all corporations, companies, individuals, associations of individuals, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever who now or may hereafter own, operate, manage or control as a common carrier in this state, any railroad or part of any railroad, whether operated by steam, electricity or other motive power, or cars or any other equipment used thereon, or bridges, switches, spurs, tracks, sidetracks, terminal facilities, or any docks, wharves or storage elevators used in connection therewith or any kind of terminal facilities used or necessary in the transportation of persons or property designated herein, and also all freight depots, yards and grounds used or necessary for the transportation or delivery of any said property and whether the same are owned by said railroad or otherwise; or any express company, car loaning companies, freight or freight line companies and all associations or persons, whether incorporated or otherwise, that shall do business as common carriers upon or over any line of railroads in this state, or any common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers and property wholly by rail or partly by rail and partly by water. See Michigan Laws 462.3
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • transportation: shall include cars and other vehicles and all instrumentalities and facilities of shipment, or carriage, irrespective of ownership, or of any contract expressed or implied for the use thereof, and all services in connection with the receipt, delivery, elevation, switching and transfer in transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, storage and handling of persons or property transported. See Michigan Laws 462.3