69-13-102. Scope of chapter -- enforcement. (1) It is declared that the operation of these pipelines, to which this chapter applies, for the transportation of crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof, in connection with the purchase or purchase and sale of such crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof, is a business in mode of the conduct of which the public is interested and as such is subject to regulation by law. The business of purchasing or of purchasing and selling crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof, using in connection with such business a pipeline of the class subject to this chapter to transport the crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof so bought or sold shall not be conducted unless such pipeline so used in connection with such business is a common carrier within the purview of this law and subject to the jurisdiction herein conferred upon the commission.
     (2) It shall be the duty of the attorney general to enforce this provision by injunction or other adequate remedy.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 8, Ex. L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3849, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3849, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 190, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 170, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 315, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 8-202.