Interstate Commerce Acts Annotated

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Page 13601 - employer" shall not include any street, interurban, or suburban electric railway unless such railway is operating as a part of a general steam-railroad system of transportation, but shall not exclude any part of the...
Page 13646 - An official record or an entry therein, when admissible for any purpose, may be evidenced by an official publication thereof or by a copy attested by the officer having the legal custody of the record, or by his deputy, and accompanied with a certificate that such officer has the custody.
Page 13637 - (4) Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 13655 - ... to cease and desist from the aforesaid violations of said act, and establish and put in force and apply In future to the transportation of between the origin and destination points named in paragraph hereof, in lieu of the rates [fares, or charges, etc.], named...
Page 13638 - ... addressed to the carrier or freight forwarder or to the agent thereof at the address filed. If no agent has been designated, service may be made by posting in the office of the Secretary of the Commission, and if the defendant be a carrier subject to Part...
Page 13651 - All discrepancies, duplications, or other errors in the statements should be adjusted by the parties and correct agreed statements submitted to the Commission. The certificate must be signed in ink by a general accounting officer of the carrier and should cover all of the information shown in the statement. If the carrier which collected the charges is not a defendant in the case its certificate must be concurred in by like signature on behalf of a carrier defendant. Statements so prepared and certified...
Page 13601 - employer" shall also include railroad associations, traffic associations, tariff bureaus, demurrage bureaus, weighing and Inspection bureaus, collection agencies and other associations, bureaus, agencies, or organizations controlled and maintained wholly or principally by two or more employers as hereinbefore defined and engaged in the performance of services in connection with or incidental to railroad transportation; and railway labor organizations, national in scope, which have been or may be...
Page 13649 - Exceptions to rulings of the presiding officer are unnecessary. It Is sufficient that a party, at the time the ruling of the presiding officer is...
Page 13601 - ... general steam-railroad system of transportation, but shall not exclude any part of the general steam-railroad system of transportation now or hereafter operated by any other motive power. The Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby authorized and directed upon request of the Board or upon complaint of any party interested to determine after hearing whether any line operated by electric power falls within the terms of this proviso. The term "employer...
Page 13642 - If a witness whose testimony may be desired to be taken by deposition be in a foreign country, the deposition may be taken before an officer or person designated by the Commission, or agreed upon by the parties by stipulation in writing to be filed with the Commission.