Title XXV — INCORPORATION AND REGULATION OF CERTAIN UTILITIES AND CARRIERS

390.011. Purpose of law — how construed. — It is hereby declared that the legislation contained in this chapter is enacted for the following purposes: (1) To promote safe, adequate, economical and efficient transportation; (2) To promote the most productive use of equipment and e…

390.020. Definitions. — As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the words and terms mean: (1) "Agricultural commodities in bulk", commodities conforming to the meaning of "commodities in bulk" as defined in this section, which are agricultural, hor…

390.021. UCR agreement — definitions — commission authority — precedence of agreement — filing of forms and registration fee-enforcement authority — authorized exemptions. — 1. The provisions of this section shall be applicable, notwithstanding any provisions of section 390.030 t…

390.030. Vehicles exempted — discrimination prohibited, when. — 1. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to: (1) School buses; (2) Taxicabs; (3) Motor vehicles while being used exclusively to transport: (a) Stocker and feeder livestock from farm to farm, or from market t…

390.041. Powers of the division of motor carrier and railroad safety to regulate common and contract motor carriers. — The division of motor carrier and railroad safety is hereby vested with power and authority: (1) To license, supervise and regulate every common or contract carr…

390.045. Enforcement personnel of division of motor carrier and railroad safety — powers, training — vehicles to be emergency vehicles — firearms prohibited. — 1. Duly authorized enforcement personnel of the division may stop commercial motor vehicles when there is a probable cau…

390.051. Certificate required for common carriers of household goods or passengers to do business — application, content — issued when. — 1. Except as otherwise provided in section 390.030, no person shall engage in the business of a common carrier of household goods or passenger…

390.054. Movers of household goods in intrastate commerce, proof of workers' compensation insurance coverage required. — Beginning August 28, 2012, and continuing thereafter, no certificate or permit to transport household goods in intrastate commerce shall be issued or renewed u…

390.061. Contract carriers of household goods or passengers to have permit — application, contents — issuance — contract rates — interagency agreements. — 1. Except as otherwise provided in section 390.030, no person shall engage in the business of a contract carrier of household…

390.062. Procedure for obtaining certificates, permits and rate relief — motion to intervene, when, content — ruling final, when — time extension. — 1. The division, upon the filing of an application for a certificate under subsection 4 of section 390.051, a permit under subsecti…

390.063. Certificate required for motor carriers transporting elderly, handicapped and children in head start for rural areas, application, content — rates not to be regulated by division — license not required, when. — 1. As used in this chapter, the following terms mean: (1) "E…

390.066. Application for employment, information of previous employment required — employer not to allow driver to drive on suspended, revoked or cancelled license, penalty — division of motor carrier and railroad safety to perform audit, purpose, set rates for carriers of commod…

390.081. Temporary permit, issued when. — 1. In order to provide motor carrier service for which there is an immediate and urgent need from, to or between a point or points or within a territory having no carrier service deemed capable of meeting such need, the division of motor …

390.101. Common carrier may discontinue service, when. — No common carrier authorized under the provisions of this chapter to operate within the state of Missouri shall abandon, discontinue, or fail to provide any service established or authorized to be established under the prov…

390.106. Certificate or permit may be revoked, altered or amended, when. — The division of motor carrier and railroad safety may at any time, for good cause, suspend, and upon at least ten days' notice to the holder of any certificate or permit, and after hearing, revoke, alter o…

390.111. Certificate or permit transferred to purchaser, assignee or consolidated company, when. — 1. In the event a motor carrier, to which a certificate or permit shall have been issued under the provisions of this chapter, shall sell, transfer, or assign the business, rights o…

390.116. Through routes and joint rates established by common carriers of household goods, when. — 1. Common carriers of household goods may establish reasonable through routes or interline service and joint rates, charges and classifications with other such carriers or with comm…

390.121. Rates, fares or charges, changes may be ordered by division of motor carrier and railroad safety, when. — Whenever, after hearing, upon complaint or in an investigation on its own motion, the division shall be of the opinion that any individual or joint rate, fare or cha…

390.126. Liability insurance required — powers of municipality. — 1. No motor carrier shall operate any motor vehicle on any public highway in this state until after such carrier shall have filed with, and same has been approved by the division, a certificate of any insurance car…

390.128. Division of motor carrier and railroad safety required to promulgate rules for electronic filing of certificates of insurance by insurance companies — confirmation of coverage and acceptance of proof of nonresident insurance may be provided. — 1. To assist motor carriers…

390.136. Motor carriers, regulatory license required — annual, issued when — emergency or temporary license for seventy-two hours — fees — out-of-state agreements, effect — violation, penalty. — 1. No motor carrier, except as provided in section 390.030, shall operate any motor v…

390.138. Duplicate license issued, when — license cancelled when mutilated, procedure. — 1. In the event of the mutilation or destruction of an annual license issued by the division, the lawful holder thereof may file with the motor carrier and railroad safety division an affidav…

390.141. Orders and decision of division of motor carrier and railroad safety to be written — how served. — The orders and decisions of the division on the matters covered by the provisions of this chapter shall be reduced to writing and a copy thereof, duly certified, shall be s…

390.146. Laws relating to motor carrier and railroad safety division of the department of economic development and common carriers to apply. — The provisions of chapters 386 and 387 that are not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 390.011 to 390.176 are hereby made appli…

390.150. Financial statement for intrastate common or contract carriers of household goods or passengers filed when, content — form — failure to comply, penalty deposit in school fund — motor carriers failure to maintain records, effect. — 1. Every intrastate common or contract c…

390.151. Law not to interfere with police control of use of highways. — No provision in sections 390.011 to 390.176 shall be so construed as to deprive any county or municipality within this state of the right of police control over the use of its public highways, or the state hi…

390.156. Action for penalty or forfeiture, how prosecuted — defenses — disposition of penalties recovered. — An action to recover a penalty or a forfeiture under this chapter or to enforce the powers of the division under this or any other law may be brought in any circuit court …

390.161. Penalties cumulative. — All penalties accruing under sections 390.011 to 390.176 shall be cumulative of each other, and the suit for the recovery of one penalty shall not be a bar to or affect the recovery of any other penalty or forfeiture or be a bar to any original pr…

390.171. Violation of law or rule a misdemeanor. — Every owner, officer, agent or employee of any motor carrier, and every other person, who violates or fails to comply with or who procures, aids or abets in the violation of any provision of this chapter, or who fails to obey, ob…

390.176. Fines for violations — what deemed separate offense — how construed. — 1. Any person operating as a motor carrier who violates or fails to comply with any provision of the Constitution of this state or of this or any other law, or which fails, omits or neglects to obey, …

390.201. Enforcement of federal regulations, authority to enforce. — Subject to any exceptions which are applicable under section 307.400, the officers and commercial motor vehicle inspectors of the state highway patrol, the enforcement personnel of the division of motor carrier …

390.250. Definitions. — 1. As used in sections 390.250 to 390.350, the following terms mean: (1) "Division", the division of motor carrier and railroad safety within the department of economic development of this state, which, after June 30, 1997, is known as the division of moto…

390.260. Scope of division's authority — applicability of certain provisions to household goods. — 1. The division shall neither enforce any law nor make or enforce any rule or order relating to the prices, routes or services of registered property carriers or of common carriers …

390.270. Property carrier registration required, when. — Except as otherwise provided in section 390.030, no person shall engage in the business of transporting property, except household goods, by motor vehicle for hire or compensation in intrastate commerce on any public highwa…

390.280. Certificates issued prior to January 1, 1995, void, when — certificate owners qualified as registered property carriers, when — hazardous materials, transportation of, effect of law upon — geographic restriction void, when. — 1. Certificates or permits, or both, which we…

390.290. Application, verified, documents accompanying — determination of compliance by administrative law judge — property carrier registration restrictions, exceptions. — 1. Every application for a property carrier registration pursuant to sections 390.250 to 390.350 shall be c…

390.300. Transfer of property carrier registration, division approval, transfer requirements — restriction of property carrier registration on transfer. — 1. A property carrier registration, including any certificate or permit, or both, which pursuant to section 390.280 is deemed…

390.310. Suspension of property carrier registration, hearing, notice, revocation, alteration or amendment of registration, when effective. — Notwithstanding any provisions of section 390.106, to the contrary, the division at any time, for good cause, may suspend a certificate, p…

390.320. Orders and decisions of division, effect. — Notwithstanding any provisions of section 516.103 to the contrary, in all collateral actions or proceedings the orders and decisions of the division which have become final shall be conclusive, and shall be admissible as eviden…

390.330. Motor carrier records not open to public inspection, exception — noncompliance penalty. — Notwithstanding any provisions of section 386.480 to the contrary, no information furnished to the division by a motor carrier, corporation or person, including the division staff, …

390.350. Training of division personnel — rulemaking authority. — 1. Notwithstanding any provisions of section 390.045, to the contrary, the division shall by rule adopt reasonable training requirements for its enforcement personnel to prepare them for their actual duties of empl…

390.372. Motor carrier contracts, hold harmless provisions void and unenforceable — definitions. — 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a provision, clause, covenant, or agreement contained in, collateral to, or affecting a motor carrier transportation contrac…