Missouri Laws 622.030 – Administrative law judges, powers and duties — hearing procedure — ..
1. The administrative law judges shall assume all the duties concerning transportation activities heretofore imposed upon the commissioners of the public service commission in their quasi-judicial capacity and function. All ministerial duties shall be performed by the division, and the administrative law judges shall not be responsible for those activities. The administrative law judges shall hear and decide all matters concerning transportation activities which the public service commission or public service commissioners would have been required to hear and decide in a quasi-judicial capacity.
2. Each administrative law judge may exercise all powers granted to the division without the concurrence of any other administrative law judge, except with respect to the rulemaking powers, in which all administrative law judges must concur. The method of assignment of petitions, appeals or other cases may be determined by rule or other agreement between the administrative law judges. Except as provided in section 622.035, all hearings before the administrative law judges shall be governed by rules adopted by them. In all investigations, inquiries or hearings before the division or the administrative law judges, neither the administrative law judges nor the division shall be bound by technical rules of evidence. No formality in any proceeding nor in the manner of taking testimony before the division or an administrative law judge shall invalidate any order, decision, rule or regulation made, approved or confirmed by the division or administrative law judge.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 622.030
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Division: the division of motor carrier and railroad safety within the department of economic development. See Missouri Laws 622.100
- Division staff: all personnel of the division, except those individuals assigned to the administrative law judge section. See Missouri Laws 622.100
- Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Heretofore: means any time previous to the day when the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Service: includes not only the use and accommodations afforded consumers or patrons, but also any product or commodity furnished by any corporation, person or carrier and the plant, equipment, apparatus, appliances, property and facilities employed by any corporation, person or carrier in performing any service or in furnishing any product or commodity and devoted to the public purposes of such corporation, person or carrier, and to the use and accommodation of consumers or patrons. 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
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
3. The division may charge a reasonable docket fee as may be set by rule to be paid upon the filing of any petition, application, complaint, or other request for relief or authority by any party other than the division staff. All such docket fees shall be paid to the state director of revenue at the time of the filing of any such petition, application, complaint or other request for relief or authority, and the same shall be deposited by the state director of revenue in the highway fund of the state of Missouri.