40-9-101. Application of sections.

Statute text

Sections 40-9-101 to 40-9-110 apply to any common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers or property by railroad from one point within the state to any other point within the state. These sections do not apply to the ownership or operation of street transportation public utilities conducted solely as common carriers in the transportation of passengers.

History

Source: L. 07: p. 531, 1. R.S. 08: 5445. L. 10: p. 45, 1. C.L. 2978. CSA: C. 29, 1. CRS 53: 115-12-1. C.R.S. 1963: 115-12-1. L. 69: p. 963, 73. L. 2019: Entire section amended, (HB 19-1034), ch. 45, p. 152, 1, effective July 1.

Annotations

Cross references: For lien of common carrier on goods and baggage, see 38-20-105; for motor vehicle carriers, see article 10 of title 40; for railroads, see article 20 of title 40.

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ANNOTATION

Annotations

Section has no application to private carriers. Common carriers are authorized to accept freight originating on, or destined to points on, lines of connecting carriers, and the transportation of such shipments on joint through rates or otherwise, but no provision in the law authorizes such joint operations by private carriers. McKay v. Pub. Utils. Comm'n, 104 Colo. 402, 91 P.2d 965 (1939).

The objects and purposes of the act are broad and comprehensive in relation to common carriers. That title discloses that it was intended thereby to regulate common carriers in the state and to exercise a general supervision over their conduct and operation, and it must be taken that, by the act as framed and worded, the general assembly intended to accomplish the design thereof which it expressly stated in the title. Consumers' League v. Colo. & S. Ry., 53 Colo. 54, 125 P. 577 (1912).