§ 62-269. Accounts, records and reports.
§ 62‑269. Accounts, records and reports.
The Commission may prescribe the forms of any and all accounts, recordsand memoranda to be kept by motor carriers, brokers, and lessors, including theaccounts, records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic, as well as of thereceipts and expenditures of moneys; and it shall be unlawful for suchcarriers, brokers, and lessors, to keep any accounts, records, and memorandacontrary to any rules, regulations, or orders of the Commission with respectthereto. The Commission may issue orders specifying such operating, accounting,or financial papers, records, books, blanks, stubs, correspondence, ordocuments of motor carriers, brokers, or lessors, as may after a reasonabletime be destroyed, and prescribing the length of time they shall be preserved.The Commission or its duly authorized special agents, accountants, or examinersshall at all times have access to and authority, under its order, to inspectand examine any and all lands, buildings, or equipment of motor carriers,brokers, and lessors; and shall have authority to inspect and copy any and allaccounts, books, records, memoranda, correspondence, and other documents ofsuch carriers, brokers, and lessors, and such accounts, books, records,memoranda, correspondence, and other documents of any person controlling,controlled by, or under common control with any such carrier, as the Commissiondeems relevant to such person's relation to or transactions with such carrier.Motor carriers, brokers, lessors, and persons shall submit their accounts,books, records, memoranda, correspondence, and other documents for theinspection and copying authorized by this section, and motor carriers, brokers,and lessors, shall submit their lands, buildings, and equipment for examinationand inspection, to any duly authorized special agent, accountant, auditor,inspector, or examiner of the Commission upon demand and the display of propercredentials. (1947, c. 1008, s.28; 1949, c. 1132, s. 25; 1959, c. 639, ss. 5, 6, 9, 10; 1961, c. 472, s. 10;1963, c. 1165, s. 1.)