The corporation commission [public regulation commission] may prescribe reasonable maximum rates for the transportation of oil and the products derived therefrom, where such products are transported by a pipeline common carrier from any point in New Mexico to an ultimate destination in New Mexico, provided, in the event the reasonableness of such rates are [is] contested in the manner provided by law, the burden of proof to show the unreasonableness of such rates shall be upon the person, firm, association or corporation contesting the same.
History: 1941 Comp., § 69-315, enacted by Laws 1953, ch. 42, § 2; 1953 Comp., § 65-4-2.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler. It was not enacted by the legislature and is not part of the law.
Laws 1998, ch. 108, § 80 provided that references to the state corporation commission be construed as references to the public regulation commission.
Law reviews. — For note, "The Use of Eminent Domain for Oil and Gas Pipelines in New Mexico," see 4 Nat. Res. J. 360 (1964).
For article, "Memories and Miracles Housing the Rural Poor along the United States-Mexico Border: A Comparative Discussion of Colonia Formation and Remediation in El Paso County, Texas, and Dona Ana County, New Mexico," see 27 N.M.L. Rev. 33 (1997).
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 61 Am. Jur. 2d Pipelines § 4.
13 C.J.S. Carriers §§ 138 to 194.
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