PURPOSE: This rule prescribes certain service requirements for motor carriers of passengers.

1. (1) Motor carriers of passengers shall keep all passenger-carrying vehicles in a clean and sanitary condition while in operation. They shall provide and maintain adequate restrooms and facilities, or shall stop at locations with adequate public restrooms and facilities, at sufficient intervals and for sufficient periods of time for the reasonable accommodation of passengers. The restrooms and facilities provided or selected by the carrier shall be clean and well lighted, in a sanitary condition, and reasonably comfortable for the use of the traveling public.
2. (2) Each passenger-carrying vehicle operated intrastate over a regular route or between fixed terminals shall have attached to the front of the vehicle a sign, with letters or figures not less than four inches (4”) in height, designating the destination of the vehicle. Vehicles operated other than over a regular route or between fixed terminals shall have no signs, letters or other matter that would be interpreted in any manner as solicitation of passengers or freight for a particular destination or for transportation over a route for which a certificate has been granted for transportation of persons or property over a regular route or between fixed terminals. In no case shall any vehicle have on the windshield, rear windows or windows on either side of the operator any lettering, papers or other matter that obstructs or interferes with the view of the operator.

3. (3) Except as provided in this section, no driver or operator of any motor vehicle used in the transportation of passengers in common carrier operations shall refuse to carry any person offering him/herself at any regular stopping place for carriage who tenders the regular fare to any regular stopping place on the route of the vehicle, or between the terminals, if under the certificate for that route the carrier is allowed to carry passengers to that point, unless at the time of the offer the vehicle is loaded to capacity. The driver or operator of any motor vehicle may refuse transportation to any person if that person:

   1. (A) Is intoxicated, using profane language or behaving in a boisterous or disorderly manner;
   2. (B) Affected with a contagious disease;
   3. (C) Presenting an unsanitary condition so as to unduly annoy other passengers; or
   4. (D) Aged under six (6) years and unaccompanied by an adult.
4. (4) Passenger vehicles used under a certificate or permit authorizing the transportation of passengers and their baggage must be equipped to carry and properly shelter the baggage of the passengers. No carrier shall be bound to accept baggage in excess of fifty
5. (50) pounds per passenger in weight of six (6) cubic feet per passenger in volume. A motor carrier authorized to transport passengers and their baggage shall issue without charge a baggage check to each passenger offering baggage to be transported and shall transport the baggage from origin to destination of the passenger. The carrier shall attach to the baggage a duplicate of the check given to the passenger on which shall be written or printed the destination of the passenger.

AUTHORITY: section 622.027, RSMo 1994*. Emergency rule filed Dec. 1, 1994, terminated Dec. 19, 1994. Emergency rule filed Dec. 20, 1994, effective Jan. 1, 1995, expired April 30, 1995. Emergency rule filed April 20, 1995, effective May 1, 1995, expired Aug. 28, 1995. Emergency rule filed Aug. 18, 1995, effective Aug. 29, 1995, expired Feb. 24, 1996. Original rule filed Aug. 3, 1995, effective Feb. 25, 1996. *Original authority 1985, amended 1993, 1995.