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.