391.070. Transfers and service to be fixed by division of motor carrier and railroad safety. - Missouri Statutes

Transfers and service to be fixed by division of motor carrier andrailroad safety.

391.070. 1. Whenever the division of motor carrier and railroadsafety shall be of the opinion, after a hearing had upon its own motion orupon complaint, that the practices and service and the rules andregulations affecting the same of any street railroad corporationare, as to transportation upon the street surface railroads ofsaid corporation by use of transfers given to each passengerpaying one single fare, unjust and unreasonable either as topersons transported upon such street surface railroads or as toany such street railroad corporation, the division shalldetermine and prescribe by order the just and reasonable serviceand rules and regulations affecting the same thereafter to bemaintained and observed by said street railroad corporation

(1) As to the distance over which a passenger shall by suchtransfer be transported by it upon said street surface railroadsfor a single fare;

(2) The number of successive transfers to be given by it toa passenger paying one single fare for transportation over saidstreet surface railroads; and

(3) As to the prompt use by each passenger of such transfergiven him for one single fare paid by him in making hiscontinuous trip over said street surface railroads.

2. And it shall thereupon be the duty of every such streetrailroad corporation to obey each requirement of every such orderserved upon it and do everything necessary and proper in order tosecure compliance with and observance of every such order by allof its officers, agents and employees.

3. Until and except as the motor carrier and railroad safetydivision of the department of economic development shall otherwiseprescribe as to any street railroad corporation or corporationspursuant to the provisions of this chapter, every street surface railroadcorporation entering into a contract with another suchcorporation shall carry or permit any other party thereto tocarry between any two points on the railroads or portion thereofembraced in such contract any passenger desiring to make onecontinuous trip between such points for one single fare, nothigher than the fare lawfully chargeable by either of suchcorporations for an adult passenger. Every such corporationshall, upon demand, and without extra charge, give to eachpassenger paying one single fare a transfer entitling suchpassenger to one continuous trip to any point or portion of anyrailroad embraced in such contract, to the end that publicconvenience may be promoted by the operation of the railroadsembraced in such contract substantially as a single railroad witha single rate of fare.

4. For every refusal to comply with the requirements ofsubsection 3, the corporation so refusing shall forfeit onehundred dollars, fifty dollars of which shall be paid to theaggrieved party and fifty dollars paid to the public school fundof the state. The provisions of subsection 3 shall only apply torailroads wholly within the limits of any one incorporated cityor village.

(RSMo 1939 § 5623)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 5167; 1919 § 10456

CROSS REFERENCE:

Division of motor carrier and railroad safety abolished, duties and functions transferred to highways and transportation commission and department of transportation, RSMo 226.008