1. A. The Corporation Commission is hereby vested with power and authority, and it shall be its duty:

   1. 1. To supervise and regulate every motor carrier of household goods or used emigrant movables and not operating exclusively within the limits of an incorporated city or town in this state;
   2. 2. To fix or approve the maximum or minimum, or maximum and minimum rates, fares, charges, classifications and rules pertaining thereto, of each such motor carrier;
   3. 3. To regulate and supervise the accounts, schedules and service of each such motor carrier; and for the conservation of the public highways;
   4. 4. To prescribe a uniform system and classification of accounts to be used, which among other things shall set up adequate depreciation charges, and after such accounting system shall have been promulgated, such motor carriers shall use no other;
   5. 5. To require the filing of annual reports, and other data as required from time to time by the Commission; and
   6. 6. To supervise and regulate such motor carriers in all other matters affecting the relationship between such carriers and the traveling and shipping public.
2. B. The Commission shall have the power and authority by general order or otherwise to prescribe rules and regulations applicable to any or all motor carriers of household goods or used emigrant movables.

Added by Laws 1929, HB 19, c. 253, p. 352, § 2, emerg. eff. June 28, 1929; Amended by Laws 1968, HB 1114, c. 190, § 2, eff. September 30, 1968; Amended by Laws 1984, SB 549, c. 60, § 1; Amended by Laws 1995, HB 1283, c. 143, § 14, eff. November 1, 1995.