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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 477.7a

  • Commission: means the Michigan public service commission. See Michigan Laws 475.1
  • Household goods: means personal effects and property used or to be used in a dwelling when a part of the equipment or supply of that dwelling. See Michigan Laws 475.1
  • Motor carrier: means a motor carrier of general commodities or a motor carrier of household goods. See Michigan Laws 475.1
  • Motor carrier of household goods: means a person that, either directly or through any device or arrangement, packs, loads, unloads, or transports household goods upon or over a public highway for the general public in exchange for payment. See Michigan Laws 475.1
    (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the commission shall not investigate, suspend, revise, or revoke a rate, fare, or charge proposed by a motor carrier of household goods on the grounds that the rate, fare, or charge is unreasonably high or low if all of the following requirements are met:
    (a) The motor carrier of household goods notifies the commission that it wishes the commission to consider the rate, fare, or charge under this section.
    (b) The rate, fare, or charge is the product of independent action on the part of the motor carrier of household goods proposing the rate, fare, or charge.
    (c) The aggregate of increases and reductions in the rate, fare, or charge is not more than 20% above or below the base rate, fare, or charge in effect 1 year before the effective date of the proposed rate, fare, or charge.
    (2) A motor carrier of household goods may not protest a rate, fare, or charge proposed by that motor carrier of household goods under this section.