N.Y. Transportation Law § 98: Tariff schedules; publication

§ 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.