4921.04 Powers of public utilities commission.
4921.04 Powers of public utilities commission.
The public utilities commission shall:
(A) Supervise and regulate each motor transportation company;
(B) Fix, alter, and regulate rates;
(C) Regulate the service and safety of operation of each motor transportation company;
(D) Prescribe safety rules and designate stops for service and safety on established routes;
(E) Prescribe safety rules applicable to the transportation and offering for transportation of hazardous materials in intrastate commerce within this state by motor transportation companies. The rules shall be consistent with, and equivalent in scope, coverage, and content to, the “Hazardous Materials Transportation Act,” 88 Stat. 2156 (1975), 49 U.S.C. 1801, as amended, and regulations adopted under it. No person shall violate a rule adopted under this division or any order of the commission issued to secure compliance with any such rule.
(F) Require the filing of annual and other reports and of other data by motor transportation companies;
(G) Provide uniform accounting systems;
(H) Supervise and regulate motor transportation companies in all other matters affecting the relationship between such companies and the public to the exclusion of all local authorities, except as provided in this section and section 4921.05 of the Revised Code. The commission, in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred upon it by this chapter and Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., and 4923. of the Revised Code, may prescribe rules affecting motor transportation companies, notwithstanding the provisions of any ordinance, resolution, license, or permit enacted, adopted, or granted by any township, municipal corporation, municipal corporation and county, or county. In case of conflict between any such ordinance, resolution, license, or permit, the order or rule of the commission shall prevail. Local subdivisions may make reasonable local police rules within their respective boundaries not inconsistent with those chapters and rules adopted under them.
Effective Date: 09-17-1991