208 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-393 Unified carrier registration plan and agreement; director; powers.
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The director may participate in the unified carrier registration plan and agreement pursuant to the Unified Carrier Registration Act of 2005, 49 U.S.C. 13908, as the act existed on January 1, 2026, and may file on behalf of this state the plan required by such plan and agreement …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-394 Registration under unified carrier registration plan and agreement; fees; authorization to accept registration.
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(1) No foreign or domestic motor carrier, private carrier, leasing company, broker, or freight forwarder shall operate any motor vehicle on a highway of this state or in interstate commerce without first being registered in this state or another jurisdiction pursuant to the unifi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-396 Rules and regulations.
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The director may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the unified carrier registration plan and agreement.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-397 Forms and electronic systems to allow filings.
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The director may prescribe the appropriate forms and implement the appropriate electronic systems to allow filings with the division pursuant to the unified carrier registration plan and agreement.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-398 Violations; penalty.
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Any foreign or domestic motor carrier, private carrier, leasing company, broker, or freight forwarder operating any motor vehicle in violation of sections 75-392 to 75-3,100, any rule or regulation adopted and promulgated pursuant to such sections, or any order of the division is…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-399 Sections not applicable to intrastate commerce.
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Sections 75-392 to 75-3,100 do not apply to a foreign or domestic motor carrier, private carrier, leasing company, broker, or freight forwarder, including a transporter of waste or recyclable materials, engaged exclusively in intrastate commerce.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-401 Public Service Commission; jurisdiction; railroad safety; enforcement.
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The commission shall exercise jurisdiction over the service, facilities, and equipment of all railroad carriers in this state. This jurisdiction shall extend and apply to the general public, as well as those having business relations with the railroad carrier. Sections 75-401 to …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-401.01 Railroads; discontinue agency service or close station; hearing.
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In all applications before the commission to discontinue agency service or to close a railroad station or the substitution therefor of other methods of transacting business with patrons of the carrier, which applications have been protested, the commission shall conduct a hearing…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-402 Terms, defined.
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As used in sections 75-401 to 75-430, and in all rules and regulations prescribed by the commission, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Railroad carrier shall mean any common carrier engaged in the carrying of freight or passengers over any line of railroad, or part there…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-403 Railroads; violation of orders of commission; civil liability; defenses precluded.
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Any railroad carrier shall be liable for any damage or injury that shall be caused or contributed to by a violation of any commission order, issued after due notice and hearing, relating to the efficiency, sufficiency, and safety of the service, facilities, or equipment furnished…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-405 Reciprocal demurrage; annual agreement.
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Every railroad carrier which operates lines within this state shall make an annual agreement with each shipper that receives or sends ten or more cars annually which provides the terms under which reciprocal demurrage charges shall be made on the part of the railroad carrier or s…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-419 Employees; hours of labor.
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It shall be unlawful for any railroad carrier, its officers or agents, to require or permit any employee to be or remain on duty for a longer period than sixteen consecutive hours. For the purposes of this section, employees shall mean any person actually engaged in or connected …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-420 Employees; hours of labor; violation; penalty.
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Any such common carrier, or any officer or agent thereof, requiring or permitting any employee to go, be or remain on duty in violation of section 75-419, shall be liable to a penalty of not to exceed five hundred dollars for each and every violation thereof, to be recovered in a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-426 Accidents; reports; filing; investigation; violation; penalty.
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Upon the occurrence of any serious personal injury or loss of life to persons other than railroad employees resulting from an accident at a railroad crossing or from an accident involving an explosion, fire, or release of noxious fumes occurring upon any railroad within the State…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-428 Intersections; transfer facilities; duty to provide; violation; penalty.
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Each owner of a railroad may cross, intersect, join, and unite its railroad with any other railroad at any point on its route and upon the grounds of the owner of such other railroad with the necessary turnouts, sidings, and switches and other conveniences in furtherance of the o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-429 Switch stand lights and signals; operation; violation; penalty.
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Each operator of any railroad in this state shall equip with proper lights all switch stands to each switch leading from all main tracks of such road on which trains are generally operated at night except lines fully equipped with automatic block signals. Lights or other signals …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-430 Railroad signals; interference with view; authority of commission.
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It shall be unlawful to locate, maintain, or allow to remain any light at any place within this state in such a place or manner that the light interferes with the view of any railroad signal to an extent which causes danger in the operation of trains. Whenever any light has been …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-501 Common carrier, declaration; commission jurisdiction; rules and regulations; validity.
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Any person who transports, transmits, conveys, or stores liquid or gas by pipeline for hire in Nebraska intrastate commerce shall be a common carrier subject to commission regulation. The commission shall adopt, promulgate, and enforce reasonable rules and regulations establishin…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-502 Pipeline carriers; powers.
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Pipeline carriers which are declared common carriers under section 75-501, pipeline carriers approved under the Major Oil Pipeline Siting Act, and pipeline carriers for which the Governor approves a route under section 57-1503 may store, transport, or convey any liquid or gas, or…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-503 Pipeline carriers; tapping pipeline; commission may authorize.
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Upon written application of any person who operates or proposes to operate any refinery in this state, after hearing, if in the judgment of the commission the public good shall require, the commission shall enter an order authorizing the tapping of any pipeline at or near any poi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-701 Public Service Commission; jurisdiction denied.
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The commission shall have no jurisdiction over the rates, tolls, rents, and charges of districts organized under sections 70-601 to 70-672.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-702 Transmission lines; intersections between railroads and highways; jurisdiction of commission.
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The commission shall have general supervision over any and all wires for transmitting electric current, or any other wire whatsoever, which crosses under or over any railroad track in this state at public highway crossings.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-703 Intersections between railroads and highways; rules and regulations.
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The commission shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations prescribing the manner in which the wires specified in section 75-702 will cross such railroad tracks in this state at public highway crossings.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-704 Intersections between railroads and highways; prohibited acts.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to place any wire across any railroad track in this state at public highway crossings except in such manner as may be prescribed by the commission as provided in section 75-703.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-705 Intersections between railroads and highways; crossing; commission may prescribe changes; cost.
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The commission shall, either by personal examination or otherwise, obtain information where the railroad track at public highway crossings is crossed by wires strung over the track contrary to or not in compliance with the rules prescribed by the commission, as contemplated by se…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-706 Intersections between railroads and highways; crossing of wires; clearance.
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If any wire crosses over railroad track, in no case shall the commission prescribe a less clearance than twenty-five feet above the rails under the most unfavorable conditions of temperature and loading for all wires except electric wires for trolley cars, and such wires shall no…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-707 Intersections between railroads and highways; crossing of wires; regulation.
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The commission shall regulate the crossing of wires across railroad rights-of-way at public highways within the state, except that when the crossing entity is a railroad operator, the owners shall attempt to agree upon the terms and conditions of such crossing, and if such agreem…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-708 Wires; violation; penalty; enforcement.
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Any person who strings or maintains any wire across any railroad right-of-way in this state at a different height or in a different manner than that prescribed by the commission, shall forfeit and pay to the State of Nebraska the sum of one hundred dollars for each separate perio…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-709 Electric lines; clearance from other lines.
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All lines constructed for the transmission of electric current, including telephone and telegraph lines, on the public highways or in other places in this state, except as provided in section 75-724, shall provide sufficient clearance between such lines and existing properly cons…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-710 Electric line; construction or voltage increase; application required, when.
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If the voltage of any electric line described in section 75-709 will exceed fifteen thousand volts and such line will be within one-quarter mile of any existing electrical or communication line of any other person or signal line of any railroad or if the voltage of such electric …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-711 Application to construct line or increase voltage; notice; hearing.
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Upon application being filed pursuant to section 75-710, the commission shall notify all parties who own or operate electrical or communication lines or railroad signal lines and who are likely to be affected by the construction of the electrical lines to appear at a public heari…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-712 Electric line paralleling or intersecting certain telephone lines; inductive interference; effect.
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Notwithstanding any provisions of sections 75-709 to 75-711, whenever electric lines which parallel or intersect one-wire ground return telephone lines are constructed, maintained and operated in accordance with recognized standard engineering specifications, the owner of the ele…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-713 Construction near airports; application; when.
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Any public utility, public power district, or other governmental subdivision or any person in this state, before engaging in the construction or alteration of any overhead wire, cable, or pipeline, the height of which is greater than five feet above the elevation of an airport wh…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-714 Construction near airports; application; notice; hearing; waiver; rules and regulations by Director of Aeronautics.
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Upon the filing of an application by any applicant for permission to construct or alter any overhead wire, cable, or pipeline as provided in section 75-713, the commission shall notify the Director of Aeronautics of the filing of the application and the date that it will be heard…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-715 Construction near airports; notice of hearing; to whom; objections.
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The Director of Aeronautics shall notify the owners of and persons operating upon any licensed airport affected by any application filed pursuant to section 75-713 and in the notice shall state the time and place of the hearing. The director may appear at the hearing and make obj…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-716 Division of Aeronautics; file list of airports with commission.
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The Division of Aeronautics of the Department of Transportation shall at all times maintain on file in the office of the commission a list of the airports currently licensed by the division setting forth the legal description of the real property thus used.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-717 Construction near airports; hearing; order.
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The commission shall determine from the evidence presented at the hearing held pursuant to section 75-714 whether the applicant has made adequate allowance for the proper glide angles for the landing of aircraft at the airport concerned and shall determine, in conformity with the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-718 Transmission, telephone, or telegraph lines; commission may vacate side of highway, when.
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If a transmission, telephone, or telegraph carrier proposes to construct a line under the provisions of sections 75-709 to 75-724 on a highway both sides of which are occupied by telephone and telegraph lines or transmission lines, the commission shall order one side of the highw…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-719 Specified electrical transmission lines; construction requirements; applications; exceptions; line extension; delayed application; procedure.
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An electrical transmission line for which application is required under section 75-710 will have complied with all the requirements of section 75-710 when built in accordance with the order and specifications of the commission for the construction of a line giving reasonable prot…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-720 Proposed construction; electrical lines; application, notice, or hearing; unnecessary; when.
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Provisions of law requiring filing of applications with the commission and other procedures for proposed construction of any electrical line pursuant to section 75-711 need not be complied with when the electric transmission carrier has given written notice by certified mail, wit…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-721 Construction; operation; commission may regulate.
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The commission may prohibit the construction of any line found to be in violation of the terms of section 75-709. After the hearing provided for in section 75-711, the commission shall make such order and prescribe such terms and conditions for the location, construction, and ope…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-722 Procedure; appeal; provisions applicable.
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Commission hearings concerning the provisions of sections 75-709 to 75-724 shall be in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. Any appeals therefrom shall be in accordance with section 75-136.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-723 Transmission, telephone, and telegraph lines; violations; penalty.
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Any person who violates any of the provisions of sections 75-709 to 75-724 shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-724 Lines in cities or villages; exempt.
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The provisions of sections 75-709 to 75-724 shall not apply to any line within the limits of any incorporated city or village.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-801 Prior license, certificate, permit, authorization; remain in force until their expiration; rights of parties not affected.
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No license, certificate, permit, or other authorization in force on October 19, 1963, shall be invalidated by the passage of sections 75-101 to 75-801, but all such shall remain in force until their expiration under the terms of the law in effect at the time of their original iss…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-901 Grain Dealer Act, how cited.
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Sections 75-901 to 75-911 shall be known and may be cited as the Grain Dealer Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-902 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Grain Dealer Act, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Commission means the Public Service Commission; (2) Direct delivery grain has the same meaning as in section 88-526; (3) Direct delivery obligation has the same meaning as in section 88-526; (4)(a) G…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-903 Grain dealer; licensure; requirements; fee; security; seller, recourse.
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(1) All grain dealers doing business in this state shall be licensed by the commission. If the applicant is an individual, the application shall include the applicant's social security number. To procure and maintain a license, each grain dealer shall: (a)(i) Prior to July 1, 202…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-903.01 License; suspension or revocation; procedure.
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The commission may, upon complaint filed by it or any person and after a hearing, suspend or revoke the license of any grain dealer for failure to comply with the requirements of the Grain Dealer Act or any rule or regulation adopted and promulgated pursuant to such act. The comp…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 75-903.02 Criminal history record information check; fingerprinting; when.
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For each application filed under section 75-903 after January 1, 2004, one of the following primary parties shall be subject to fingerprinting and a check of his or her criminal history record information maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the Nebraska Stat…