§ 45:255 — Regulations of commission; petition, notice, and hearing; reparations

Louisiana § 45:255

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 45: Public Utilities and Carriers

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§255. Regulations of commission; petition, notice, and hearing; reparations
The Louisiana Public Service Commission shall establish and enforce reasonable
rates and regulations for gathering, transporting, loading, and delivering petroleum, by any
common carrier as defined in R.S. 45:251, and for the furnishing and use of reasonable tank
facilities necessary or integral to the transportation function and that may be necessary, in its
capacity as a common carrier only, to take care, for a reasonable time, of all petroleum
transported by it, excluding pipes designed and used solely within a terminal facility for
terminaling services, including pipes delivering petroleum into or extracting petroleum from
tanks used for terminaling services, intra-terminal transfer lines, metering facilities
associated with such terminaling services, tanks designed and used for terminaling services,
and truck unloading facilities, and to prescribe and enforce regulations for control of these
common carriers in respect to their pipe lines and receiving, tanking, delivering, transferring,
and loading facilities. It shall exercise this power upon petition by any person showing a
substantial interest in the subject. No order requiring the furnishing of such facilities or
establishing or prescribing rates, rules, and regulations shall be made, except after hearing
after at least ten days and not more than thirty days notice to the person owning, controlling,
managing, or operating the pipe lines affected. If any rate shall be filed by any pipe line and
a complaint or petition to reduce the rate is filed by any shipper or owner of petroleum, and
such complaint is sustained in whole or in part, all owners and shippers of petroleum, who
shall have paid rates so filed by the pipe line have the right to reparation or reimbursement
of all excess in transportation charges above the proper rate as finally determined, on all
shipments made within six months prior to the date of the filing of the complaint.

Legislative History

Acts 2025, No. 458, §8, eff. Oct. 1, 2025.