§ 8-2.1-22-23 — Tariffs showing rates and services; filing and publication; compliance; change in fare or practice

Indiana § 8-2.1-22-23

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

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(a) Every intrastate common carrier by
motor vehicle shall file with the department, and print and keep open
to public inspection, tariffs showing all rates, fares, charges for
transportation, and all service in connection therewith, of passengers
or household goods in intrastate commerce between points:
(1) on its own route; or
(2) on the route of any other common carrier;
when and as through routes and joint rates are established.
(b) The department may prescribe the form and manner in which the
tariffs shall be published and may reject any tariff filed with it that is
not in compliance with this section. When so rejected, the tariff is void,
and its use shall be unlawful.
(c) A common carrier by motor vehicle shall not charge, demand,
collect, or receive a greater or less or different compensation for
transportation or for any service in connection therewith between
points enumerated in the tariff than the rates, fares, and charges
specified in the tariffs in effect at the time. A carrier shall not refund or
remit in any manner or by any device, directly or indirectly, personally
or by agent, any portion of rates, fares, or charges so specified, and
shall not extend to any person any facilities for transportation except as
are specified in its tariffs.
(d) A change may not be made in any fare, charge, rule or practice
for or in connection with the transportation of passengers or household
goods except after thirty (30) days notice of the proposed change. The
notice must plainly state the change proposed to be made and the
effective date of the change. The department, upon complaint or upon
the department's own motion, may suspend any tariff making any
changes provided in this chapter within twenty (20) days after the filing
of the tariff and not thereafter.
(e) The department may, for good cause shown, allow changes upon
notice in less time than specified and permit tariffs to be filed and
become effective in particular instances on shorter notice than stated
in subsection (d).
(f) Whenever the carrier operating a local transportation system
wholly within one (1) county files a tariff or schedule of increased rates
or fares affecting its patrons in any municipality in which the carrier
renders service, the carrier shall give notice by registered mail, on the
date the tariff is filed with the department, to the executive and
legislative body of the municipality and shall enclose a copy of the
tariff filed with the department.
(g) A common carrier by motor vehicle shall not engage in the
transportation of passengers or household goods unless the tariffs have
been filed and published in accordance with this chapter.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.13. Amended by P.L.110-1995, SEC.18; P.L.205-2025, SEC.38.