§ 8-2.1-22-18 — Agreements with other common carriers; routes and rates; discrimination

Indiana § 8-2.1-22-18

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 2.1: MOTOR CARRIER REGULATION
• Ch. 22: Transportation of Passengers and Household Goods

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(a) Notwithstanding IC 24-1-2-1 and in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 14303, common carriers may:
(1) establish by agreement through routes and joint rates, charges,
and classifications with other common carriers and with common
carriers by railroads, or by water, and every common carrier shall
provide safe and adequate service, equipment, and facilities for
the transportation of passengers or household goods in intrastate
and interstate commerce; and
(2) establish, observe, and enforce just and reasonable rates, fares,
charges, and classifications, and just and reasonable regulations
and practices relating to rates, fares, charges, and classifications,
and to the issuance, form, and substance of tickets, receipts, bills
of lading, the carrying of baggage, and all other matters relating
to or connected with the transportation of passengers or household
goods in both intrastate and interstate commerce, and in case of
joint rates and charges, to establish just, reasonable, and equitable
division of joint rates and charges between the carriers
participating in the joint rates and charges.
(b) It is unjust discrimination and unlawful for any common carrier
by motor vehicle to make, give, or cause any undue or unreasonable
preference or advantage to any particular person or locality in
connection with the transportation of any persons or household goods,
or to subject any particular person or locality to any undue or
unreasonable prejudice, delay, or disadvantage in any respect.
(c) Every common carrier by motor vehicle that fails or refuses to
receive and transport without unreasonable delay or discrimination the
passengers or household goods tendered for transportation and deliver
without unreasonable delay or discrimination those passengers or
household goods at destination or to the transfer point of the route of
any connecting common carrier by motor vehicle or railroad is guilty
of unjust discrimination.
(d) It is unjust discrimination for any common carrier to charge or
receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation
of passengers or household goods for a shorter than for a longer
distance over the same line in the same direction, the shorter distance
being included in the longer.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.13. Amended by P.L.110-1995, SEC.14; P.L.7-2015, SEC.18.