Indiana Code 8-2.1-22-19. Complaints; fixing of routes or rates
(b) If the department is of the opinion that any individual or joint rate, fare, tariff, charge, or classification being made or demanded by any common carrier or carriers subject to this chapter or by any common carriers operating in conjunction with common carriers by railroads or by water is, or will be, unjust and unlawful and unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential or unduly prejudicial, it shall determine and prescribe lawful maximum or minimum, and maximum and minimum rates, fares, charges, tariffs, rules, and classifications thereafter to be observed or thereafter to be made effective. The department may, on its own initiative, without complaint, whenever deemed by the department to be necessary and desirable in the public interest, establish through routes, joint classifications, joint rates, fares, charges, tariffs, regulations, or practices for the transportation of passengers or household goods by common carriers by motor vehicle or the carrier by railroad or by water, and may fix the maximum or minimum or the maximum and minimum rates to be charged and the terms and conditions under which the fares and charges shall be applied and the routes to be operated.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 8-2.1-22-19
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
- in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.13. Amended by P.L.110-1995, SEC.15.