2005 Minnesota Statutes - 231.11 — Schedule of rates; storing household goods.

     231.11 Schedule of rates; storing household goods. 


    Subdivision 1.    Filing; inspection.  A household goods 
 warehouse operator must file with the department and keep open 
 for public inspection a printed schedule of rates and charges 
 complying with subdivision 2.  All tariffs of rates and charges 
 must contain terms and conditions under which the rates and 
 charges are assessed. 


    Subd. 2.    Rate-making procedure.  In order to ensure 
 nondiscriminatory rates and charges for all depositors of 
 household goods, the commissioner shall establish a collective 
 rate-making procedure which will ensure the publication and 
 maintenance of just and reasonable rates and charges under 
 uniform, reasonably related rate structures.  These procedures 
 must provide for the joint consideration, initiation, and 
 establishment of rates and charges and ensure that the 
 respective revenues and expenses of household goods warehouse 
 operators are ascertained.  Any participating household goods 
 warehouse operator party to a collectively mandated rate or 
 charge has the right to petition the commissioner for the 
 establishment of a rate or charge which deviates from the 
 collectively set rate.  Upon receiving the commissioner's 
 approval, that household goods warehouse operator may proceed to 
 establish the requested rate or charge.  All household goods 
 warehouse operators subject to rate regulation under this 
 chapter must comply with the commissioner's rate-making 
 procedures.  No household goods warehouse operator shall 
 undertake to perform any service or store any household goods 
 until a schedule of rates has been filed and published in 
 accordance with this chapter.  In case of emergency, however, a 
 service or storage not specifically covered by the schedules 
 filed, may be performed or furnished at a reasonable rate, which 
 must then be promptly filed, and which is subject to review in 
 accordance with this chapter.  


    HIST: (5184) 1915 c 210 s 13; 1971 c 25 s 67; 1983 c 300 s 24; 
 1986 c 444; 1993 c 212 s 2; 1999 c 110 s 6; 2005 c 92 s 7