69-13-201. Establishment of rates and operating rules. (1) The commission shall have the power to establish and enforce rates of charges and regulations for gathering, transporting, loading, and delivering crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof by such common carrier in this state and for the use of storage facilities necessarily incident to such transportation and to prescribe and enforce rules for the government and control of such common carriers in respect to their pipelines and receiving, transferring, and loading facilities. It shall be its duty to exercise such power upon petition by any person showing a substantial interest in the subject.
     (2) No order establishing or prescribing rates and rules shall be made except after hearing and at least 10 days' and not more than 30 days' notice to the person, firm, corporation, partnership, joint-stock association, or association owning or controlling and operating the pipeline or pipelines affected.
     (3) In the event any rate shall be filed by any pipeline and complaint against the same or petition to reduce the same shall be filed by any shipper and such complaint be sustained, in whole or in part, all shippers who shall have paid the rates so filed by the pipeline shall have the right to reparation or reimbursement of all excess in transportation charges so paid, over and above the proper rate as finally determined, on all shipments made after the date of the filing of such complaint.

     History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 8, Ex. L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3851, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3851, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 190, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 170, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 315, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 8-204.