Section 476.7 - Rates, fares, and charges to be just and reasonable; meeting competitive rates; future costs; refunding or remitting portion of required rates, fares, and charges prohibited; carrier a
THE MOTOR CARRIER ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 254 of 1933
476.7 Rates, fares, and charges to be just and reasonable; meeting competitive rates; future costs; refunding or remitting portion of required rates, fares, and charges prohibited; carrier as motor common carrier and motor contract carrier; inapplicability of section to local moves of household goods.
Sec. 7.
(1) All rates, fares, and charges made by any motor common carrier shall be just and reasonable, and shall not be unjustly discriminatory, prejudicial, or preferential. Contract motor carrier rates, fares, and charges made by common motor carriers holding both common carrier and contract carrier authority shall not be considered by the commission to be unjustly discriminatory, prejudicial, or preferential in determining compliance with this section. Existing carriers will be permitted to meet competitive rates without further justification to the commission. The commission shall take into account reasonable estimated or foreseeable future costs in determining whether rates, fares, and charges meet the requirements of this subsection.
(2) A motor common carrier shall not charge, demand, collect, or receive a greater or less or different remuneration for the transportation of property, or for any service in connection therewith, than the rates, fares, and charges which have been legally established and filed with the commission.
(3) A motor common carrier shall not refund or remit in any manner or by any device any portion of the rates, fares, and charges required to be collected by the tariffs on file with the commission or ordered by the commission.
(4) Nothing in this act shall prohibit a carrier from operating both as a motor common carrier and a motor contract carrier.
(5) This section does not apply to local moves of household goods.
History: 1933, Act 254, Eff. Oct. 17, 1933 ;-- CL 1948, 476.7 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 399, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 1982 ;-- Am. 1993, Act 352, Imd. Eff. Jan. 13, 1994 ;-- Am. 2007, Act 33, Imd. Eff. July 10, 2007