69-13-101. Common carrier pipeline. (1) The following are hereby declared to be common carriers and subject to the provisions of this chapter: every person, firm, corporation, limited partnership, joint-stock association, or association of any kind whatever:
     (a) owning, operating, or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline within the state for the transportation of crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof to or for the public for hire or engaging in the business of transporting crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof by pipelines;
     (b) owning, operating, or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline for the transportation of crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof to or for the public for hire, which pipeline is constructed or maintained upon, along, over, or under any public road or highway;
     (c) owning, operating, or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline for transportation to or for the public for hire of crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof, which pipeline is or may be constructed, operated, or maintained across, upon, along, over, or under the right-of-way of any railroad, corporation, or other common carrier required by law to transport crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof as a common carrier;
     (d) owning, operating, or managing or participating in ownership, operation, or management, under lease, contract of purchase, agreement to buy or sell, or other agreement or arrangement of any kind whatsoever, any pipeline or any part of any pipeline for the transportation from any oil field, coal mine or field, or place of production within the state to any distributing, refining, or marketing center or reshipping point thereof, within this state, of crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof, bought of others; or
     (e) made a common carrier by or under the terms of contract with or in pursuance of the law of the United States.
     (2) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to those pipelines which are limited in their use to the wells, stations, plants, and refineries of the owner and which are not a part of the pipeline transportation system of any common carrier, as herein defined; nor shall such provisions apply to any property of such a common carrier which is not a part of or necessarily incident to its pipeline transportation system.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 8, Ex. L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3848, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3848, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 190, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 170, L. 1963; R.C.M. 1947, 8-201.