Missouri Laws 390.121 – Rates, fares or charges, changes may be ordered by division of motor ..
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 390.121
- Common carrier: any person which holds itself out to the general public to engage in the transportation by motor vehicle of passengers or property for hire or compensation upon the public highways and airlines engaged in intrastate commerce. See Missouri Laws 390.020
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Division: the division of motor carrier and railroad safety of the department of transportation. See Missouri Laws 390.020
- Motor vehicle: any vehicle, truck, truck-tractor, trailer, or semitrailer, motor bus or any self-propelled vehicle used upon the highways of the state in the transportation of property or passengers. See Missouri Laws 390.020
Whenever, after hearing, upon complaint or in an investigation on its own motion, the division shall be of the opinion that any individual or joint rate, fare or charge, demanded, charged or collected by any common carrier by motor vehicle or by any common carrier by motor vehicle in conjunction with any common carrier by railroad or express, for transportation; or any classification, rule, regulation or practice whatsoever of such carrier or carriers affecting such rate, fare or charge or the value of the service thereunder, is or will be unjust or unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, unduly preferential or unduly prejudicial, it shall determine and prescribe the lawful rate, fare or charge or maximum or minimum, or maximum and minimum rates, fares or charges thereafter to be observed, or the lawful classifications, rules, regulations or practices thereafter to be made effective.