Michigan Laws 462.30 – Common carriers; annual statement, contents, time; blanks; additional information; earnings and income, report
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- common carrier: as used in this act shall be construed to mean and embrace all corporations, companies, individuals, associations of individuals, their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever who now or may hereafter own, operate, manage or control as a common carrier in this state, any railroad or part of any railroad, whether operated by steam, electricity or other motive power, or cars or any other equipment used thereon, or bridges, switches, spurs, tracks, sidetracks, terminal facilities, or any docks, wharves or storage elevators used in connection therewith or any kind of terminal facilities used or necessary in the transportation of persons or property designated herein, and also all freight depots, yards and grounds used or necessary for the transportation or delivery of any said property and whether the same are owned by said railroad or otherwise; or any express company, car loaning companies, freight or freight line companies and all associations or persons, whether incorporated or otherwise, that shall do business as common carriers upon or over any line of railroads in this state, or any common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers and property wholly by rail or partly by rail and partly by water. See Michigan Laws 462.3
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
- railroad: as used in this act shall be construed to mean all railroads, whether operated by steam, electric or other motive power: Provided, That the provision of this act shall not apply to any logging or other private railroad not doing business as a common carrier: Provided further, Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to authorize the commission to interfere with, lessen or impair or to authorize the impairment of any franchise provision, contract or agreement as to rate of fare now existing between any municipality, city, village, or township and any tram railway, street railway, interurban or suburban railway company, or to increase or lessen the rate of fare fixed by such franchise, contract or agreement, or to deprive any tram railway, street railway, interurban or suburban railway company of the right to charge for the carriage of passengers the rate of fare authorized and fixed by any franchise, grant or contract made or entered into between any municipality, city, village or township and any such tram railway, street railway, interurban or suburban railway company; Provided further, That nothing in this act contained shall apply to street and electric railroads engaged solely in the transportation of passengers within the limits of cities or within a distance of 5 miles of the boundaries thereof. See Michigan Laws 462.3
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
Every common carrier doing business in this state, or which shall hereafter do business in this state, and every person, firm or corporation owning property in this state which is used for common carrier purposes, shall on or before the first day of May, 1918, and on or before the same day in each year thereafter, make and transmit to the commission at its office in Lansing a full and true statement, under oath of the proper official of such carrier of the financial and operating transactions of such carrier relative to the state of Michigan for the year ending the thirty-first day of December preceding, which statement for the state of Michigan shall be similar in character and detail to the annual report, if any, required to be made by such carriers to the interstate commerce commission. The said commission shall cause to be made suitable blanks at the expense of the state and forward the same to such common carrier, upon which to make reports required by this act. The said railroad commission may require of such common carrier, subject to the provisions of this act, any other or additional information relating to the management of such carrier and to the condition of its respective property utilized for common carrier purposes and such other subjects as in its judgment may be necessary in order to gain full information in regard thereto. Every common carrier doing business in this state shall, when so ordered by the commission, report to the railroad commission its earnings and income statement for the period designated in such order, and the proper blanks for that purpose shall be furnished by the commission.