§ 98. Tariff schedules; publication. Every common carrier shall file
with the commissioner and shall print and keep open to public inspection
schedules showing the rates, fares and charges for the transportation of
passengers and property within the state between each point upon its
route and all other points thereon; and between each point upon its
route and all points upon every route leased, operated or controlled by
it; and between each point on its route or upon any route leased,
operated or controlled by it and all points upon the route of any other
common carrier, whenever a through route and joint rate shall have been
established or ordered between any two such points. If no joint rate
over a through route has been established, the several carriers in such
through route shall file, print and keep open to public inspection, as
aforesaid, the separately established rates, fares and charges applied
to the through transportation. The schedules printed as aforesaid shall
plainly state the places between which property and passengers will be
carried, and shall also contain the classification of passengers or
property in force, and shall also state separately all terminal charges,
storage charges, icing charges, and all other charges which the
commissioner may require to be stated, all privileges or facilities
granted or allowed, and any rules or regulations which may in anywise
change, affect or determine any part, or the aggregate of, such
aforesaid rates, fares and charges, or the value of the service rendered
to the passenger, shipper or consignee. Such schedules shall be plainly
printed in large type, and a copy thereof shall be kept by every such
carrier readily accessible to and for convenient inspection by the
public in every station or office of such carrier where passengers or
property are respectively received for transportation, when such station
or office is in charge of an agent, and in every station or office of
such carrier where passenger tickets for transportation or tickets
covering sleeping or parlor car or other train accommodation are sold or
bills of lading or receipts for property are issued. All or any of such
schedules kept as aforesaid shall be immediately produced by such
carrier for inspection upon the demand of any person. A notice printed
in bold type and stating that such schedules are on file with the agent
and open to inspection by any person and that the agent will assist any
such person to determine from such schedules any transportation rates or
fares or rules or regulations which are in force shall be kept posted by
the carrier in two public and conspicuous places in every such station
or office. The form of every such schedule shall be prescribed by the
commissioner and shall conform in the case of railroad company as nearly
as may be to the form of schedule required by the United States
department of transportation under the act of congress entitled "An act
to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.
The commissioner shall have power, from time to time, in his discretion,
to determine and prescribe by order such changes in the form of such
schedules as may be found expedient, and to modify the requirements of
this section in respect to publishing, posting and filing of schedules
either in particular instances or by general order applicable to special
or peculiar circumstances or conditions.