61-301. CHARGES JUST AND REASONABLE. All charges made, demanded or received by any public utility, or by any two (2) or more public utilities, for any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished or any service rendered or to be rendered shall be just and reasonable. Every unjust or unreasonable charge made, demanded or […]
61-302. MAINTENANCE OF ADEQUATE SERVICE. Every public utility shall furnish, provide and maintain such service, instrumentalities, equipment and facilities as shall promote the safety, health, comfort and convenience of its patrons, employees and the public, and as shall be in all respects adequate, efficient, just and reasonable. History: [(61-302) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 12b, p. […]
61-303. RULES AND REGULATIONS JUST AND REASONABLE. All rules and regulations made by a public utility affecting or pertaining to its charges or service to the public shall be just and reasonable. History: [(61-303) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 12c, p. 248; reen. C.L. 106:46; C.S., sec. 2413; I.C.A., sec. 59-303.]
61-304. SCHEDULES OF COMMON CARRIERS — CONTENTS — POSTING — FORM. Every common carrier shall file with the commission and shall print and keep open to the public inspection schedules showing the rates, fares, charge and classification for the transportation between termini within this state of persons and property from each point upon its route […]
61-305. SCHEDULES OF OTHERS THAN COMMON CARRIERS. Under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe, every public utility other than a common carrier shall file with the commission within such time and in such form as the commission may designate, and shall print and keep open to public inspection schedules showing all rates, […]
61-306. SCHEDULES — CHANGE IN FORM. The commission shall have the power, from time to time, in its discretion, to determine and prescribe by order such changes in the form of the schedules referred to in the two (2) preceding sections as it may find expedient, and to modify the requirements of any of its […]
61-307. SCHEDULES — CHANGE IN RATE AND SERVICE. Unless the commission otherwise orders, no change shall be made by any public utility in any rate, fare, toll, rental, charge or classification, or in any rule, regulation or contract relating to or affecting any rate, fare, toll, rental, charge, classification or service, or in any privilege […]
61-308. SCHEDULES — JOINT RATES. The names of the several public utilities which are parties to any joint tariff, rate, fare, toll contract, classification or charge shall be specified in the schedule or schedules showing the same. Unless otherwise ordered by the commission, a schedule showing such joint tariff, rate, fare, toll, contract, classification or […]
61-309. SCHEDULES — FILING BY COMMON CARRIERS A PRECEDENT TO DO BUSINESS. No common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall engage or participate in the transportation of persons or property, between points within this state, until its schedules of rates, fares, charges and classifications shall have been filed and published in accordance […]
61-310. ONLY SCHEDULE RATES TO BE CHARGED. No common carrier except as in this act otherwise provided shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for the transportation of persons or property, or for any service in connection therewith than the rates, fares and charges applicable to such transportation as […]
61-311. PASSES — RESTRICTED TO CERTAIN PERSONS. No common carrier shall directly or indirectly issue or give any free ticket, free pass or free transportation for passengers except to its employees and their families, its officers, agents, surgeons, physicians and attorneys at law; to ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of railroad Young Men’s Christian Associations, […]
61-312. PROPERTY HANDLED FREE — REDUCED RATES FOR DEPENDENTS. Nothing in this act shall prevent the carriage, storage or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, state, county or municipal governments, or for charitable purposes, or for relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence or other calamitous visitation, or property […]
61-313. SCHEDULE CHARGES ONLY PERMITTED. Except as in this act otherwise provided, no public utility shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or lesser or different compensation from any product or commodity furnished or to be furnished or for any service rendered or to be rendered than the rates, tolls, rentals and charges applicable […]
61-314. SCHEDULE OF RATES WITHIN AND WITHOUT STATE. Every common carrier and every telephone corporation shall print and file or cause to be filed with the commission, schedules showing all rates, fares, tolls, rentals, charges and classifications for the transportation of persons or property or the transmission of messages or conversations between all points within […]
61-315. DISCRIMINATION AND PREFERENCE PROHIBITED. No public utility shall, as to rates, charges, service, facilities or in any other respect, make or grant any preference or advantage to any corporation or person or subject any corporation or person to any prejudice or disadvantage. No public utility shall establish or maintain any unreasonable difference as to […]
61-315A. CERTAIN INVERTED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICAL RATE STRUCTURES PROHIBITED — EXPIRATION. All inverted rate structures imposed on residential electric customers which have not been formally approved by the commission prior to July 1, 1981, are hereby prohibited effective July 1, 1982. The prohibition provided herein shall automatically expire July 1, 1984, unless extended by further action […]
61-316. PROFITS. Nothing in this act shall be taken to prohibit any public utility from itself profiting, to the extent permitted by the commission, from any economies, efficiencies or improvements which it may make, and from distributing by way of dividends or otherwise disposing of the profits to which it may be so entitled, and […]
61-317. SLIDING SCALE OF CHARGES — AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT. Nothing in this act shall be taken to prohibit a corporation or person engaged in the production, generation, transmission or furnishing of heat, light, water or power, or telephone service, from establishing a sliding scale of charges: provided, that a schedule showing such scale of charges shall […]
61-318. INTERCHANGE OF TRAFFIC — DUTY OF ESTABLISHING JOINT RATES. Every common carrier shall afford all reasonable, proper and equal facilities for the prompt and efficient interchange and transfer of passengers, tonnage and cars, loaded or empty, between the lines owned, operated, controlled or leased by it, and the lines of every other common carrier, […]
61-319. INTERCHANGE OF TELEPHONE MESSAGES. Every telephone corporation operating in this state shall receive, transmit, and deliver, without discrimination or delay, the conversations and messages of every other telephone corporation with whose line a physical connection may have been made, or ordered by the commission. History: [(61-319) 1913, ch. 61, sec. 21b, p. 248; reen. […]
