An ACT to Regulate Transportation and Commerce, Etc: And Creating a Railroad Commission of the State of Oregon, 1907 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Act to Regulate Transportation and Commerce, Etc: And Creating a Railroad Commission of the State of Oregon, 1907

To regulate transportation and commerce, and common carriers thereof in this State, and, for that purpose, to create a Railroad Commission of Oregon, to provide for the appointment and election thereof, to fix the qualifications, salaries, powers, and duties of said commission, and the members thereof, and authorizing them to make and alter their rules and regulations, and to provide for demurrage and reciprocal demurrage, and for penalties for failure to furnish cars, and to regulate the mode and manner of establishing, making, and maintaining railroad crossings and connections, and to prevent unjust rates being imposed, and unjust dis crimination by the carriers subject to this Act, and to insure adequate service by them, prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Act, prescribing the procedure and rules of evidence in relation thereto, making an appropriation to carry out the provisions hereof, and repealing so much of Section 5095 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon, compiled and annotated by Hon. Charles B. Bellinger and William W. Cotton, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, and declaring an emergency.

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