Michigan Laws 462.38 – Equipment and structures; refusal to obey order; penalty
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 462.38
- 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
- shall not apply: means that the pertinent provision is not operative as to certain persons or things or in conjunction with a particular date or dates. See Michigan Laws 8.4c
Any common carrier that shall willfully neglect or refuse to obey or conform to any order of the commission made pursuant to either of section 35 or 36 shall be liable to a penalty in the sum of 500 dollars, and to a like penalty for every week thereafter until such order shall have been complied with: Provided, That in cases in which an application for rehearing shall be made, or an action in court shall be begun and prosecuted in good faith and with diligence, the liability for the continuing penalty herein prescribed shall not apply or begin until after the decision of the commission or rehearing of the final order of the courts in such action.