40-323. Commission rules and regulations to regulate time for furnishing services by railroad and telephone and telegraph companies; uniformity of demurrage charges
A. The commission may provide by rules and regulations:
1. The time within which all railroad corporations shall furnish, after demand therefor, cars, equipment and facilities necessary for handling freight in carload and less than carload lots.
2. The time within which consignors or persons ordering cars shall load them.
3. The time within which consignees to whom freight is consigned shall unload and discharge it and receive freight from freight rooms.
4. Provide penalties for failure to conform to such rules.
B. Charges for demurrage shall be uniform so that the same penalty is paid by both shipper, consignee and railroad for an equal number of cars for each day for which demurrage is charged.
C. The commission may provide the time within which express packages shall be received, gathered, transported and delivered at destination, and the limits within which express packages shall be gathered and distributed, and telegraph and telephone messages delivered, without extra charge.
D. The commission may provide the time within which baggage shall be received, transported, delivered and stored.
E. The commission may enforce reasonable regulations for weighing cars and freight offered for shipment over any line of railroad, and test the weights made by a railroad and scales used in weighing freight or cars.
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