§ 39-3-4 - Water carriers entitled to certificate as of right.
SECTION 39-3-4
§ 39-3-4 Water carriers entitled tocertificate as of right. – Any person, corporation, or authority who or which has lawfully been doingbusiness as a common carrier of persons and/or property upon water betweentermini within this state during a seven-year period, seasonally or otherwise,prior to April 30, 1943, and any cooperative association which, although notyet operating between its proposed termini within this state, has been formedfor the purpose of providing a means of transportation by water, and which hasbeen incorporated under the provisions of chapter 8 of title 7, prior to April30, 1954, shall be entitled as a matter of right and without public hearingthereon, to receive a certificate of convenience and necessity from thedivision setting forth the scope and termini of its operation.