37-1-32
Section 37-1-32 General supervision of utilities. The Public Service Commission shall have
general supervision of all persons, firms and corporations operating utilities mentioned in
this title, shall inquire into the management of the business and shall keep itself informed
as to the manner and method in which the business is conducted. It shall examine such utilities
as often as may be necessary to keep informed as to their general condition, their franchises,
capitalization, rates and other charges, and the manner in which their plants, equipment and
other property are owned, leased, controlled, managed, conducted and operated, not only with
respect to adequacy, security and accommodation afforded by their service, but also with respect
to their compliance with the provisions of this title, and any other law or laws, with the
orders of the commission, and with the charter and franchise requirements. It shall assemble
and keep on file, available for the use of the public, full...
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37-1-140
Section 37-1-140 Direct appeal to Supreme Court as matter of right; preferred setting of appeals;
time for taking appeals; bond required when appellant is utility or person. In all cases involving
controversies respecting rates and charges of telephone companies or public utilities, an
appeal from any action or order of the Alabama Public Service Commission in the exercise of
the jurisdiction, power and authority conferred upon it by this title, as amended and supplemented,
shall lie directly to the Supreme Court of Alabama. All such appeals shall be given a preferred
setting in the supreme court and shall be heard and determined by said court en banc. Nothing
in this subdivision 2 shall be deemed to apply to any such cases other than those in which
rates and charges are involved. All such appeals shall be taken within 30 days from the date
of such action or order of the Alabama Public Service Commission and shall be granted as a
matter of right and be deemed perfected by filing with...
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37-2-112
Section 37-2-112 Orders of commission - Notice; time for compliance. Whenever the Public Service
Commission shall make an order requiring the performance of any of the duties enumerated in
Sections 37-2-110 and 37-2-111, notice thereof may be served on the person or corporation
operating the railroad, by delivering a copy of such order, signed by the president of the
Public Service Commission, to the president or other head thereof, secretary, cashier, station
agent or any other agent thereof, which service may be executed by any member of the Public
Service Commission, or the clerk thereof, or by any sheriff of the state; and a copy of such
notice, with the service endorsed thereon, must be returned to the Public Service Commission
and entered of record as a part of its proceedings. If such order be for the erection of sitting
or waiting rooms, or privies or closets, the person or corporation operating the railroad
is allowed 90 days after such service, or such further time as may be...
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37-8-110
Section 37-8-110 Noncompliance with commission order to erect depot or to provide conveniences
for travelers - Generally. Any person or corporation operating a railroad which fails for
more than 90 days after its receipt, and for such further time, if any, as may be allowed
by the Public Service Commission, to comply with a legal order of the public service commission,
regarding the erection of a depot, or providing other conveniences for travelers at stations,
must, on conviction, be fined not less than $250.00 nor more than $5,000.00. To any indictment
under this section, it is good defense that such order was, in view of all the circumstances,
unreasonable or unjust. (Code 1886, §4102; Code 1896, §5364; Code 1907, §7656; Code 1923,
§5324; Code 1940, T. 48, §428.)...
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37-8-111
Section 37-8-111 Noncompliance with commission order to erect depot or to provide conveniences
for travelers - Failure of commission to notify district attorney or Attorney General. For
failure to notify the proper district attorney and Attorney General, or either, of the failure
of any railroad company or person operating the railroad to comply with any order of the Public
Service Commission regarding the erection of a depot or providing other convenience for travelers
at stations, within 60 days after the period within which such conveniences were required
by such order to be erected, each member of the Public Service Commission must, on conviction,
be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $200.00. (Code 1896, §5365; Code 1907, §7657;
Code 1923, §5325; Code 1940, T. 48, §429.)...
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37-1-43
Section 37-1-43 Jurisdiction over utilities engaged in interstate commerce not regulated under
acts of Congress. All the authority, powers and jurisdiction which have been given by law
to the Alabama Public Service Commission over utilities engaged in intrastate commerce in
this state are hereby given to said commission over utilities whose principal place of business
is located outside the State of Alabama, but who are engaged in this state in interstate commerce
not regulated under the acts of the Congress of the United States to the extent that the exercise
by said commission of such authority, powers and jurisdiction over such utilities engaged
in interstate commerce is permissible. (Acts 1923, No. 516, p. 687; Code 1923, §9649; Code
1940, T. 48, §28.)...
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37-8-3
Section 37-8-3 Compelling testimony of employees who violate Code. The agent or employee who
locally, in any county, violates any of the provisions of this Code relating to the Public
Service Commission or any of the rules or orders of the commission, in pursuance of the direction
or authority of his superior officer or agent of the common carrier, may be called as a witness
and be compelled to testify, showing the authority by which he acted, and such testimony shall
not be used against him, nor shall he thereafter be subject to indictment for said offense.
(Acts 1920, No. 37, p. 38; Acts 1923, No. 82, p. 62; Code 1923, §5401; Code 1940, T. 48,
§408.)...
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37-2-130
Section 37-2-130 Duty of railroad to maintain depots, etc. All railroads shall on the order
of the Public Service Commission keep and maintain adequate and suitable depots, buildings,
switches and sidetracks for the receiving, handling and delivering of freight transported
or to be transported by such railroads, where public necessity demands it and the revenue
received at such point will be sufficient to justify it, together with a sufficient force
of employees at each of said depots to transact efficiently the business and traffic thereat.
(Code 1907, §§5542, 5543; Code 1923, §§10039, 10040; Code 1940, T. 48, §200.)...
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37-2-110
Section 37-2-110 Duty of railroad to provide accommodations generally. Every railroad company
in this state, on the order of the Public Service Commission, shall provide, construct and
maintain adequate depots and depot buildings for the accommodation of passengers, where public
necessity demands it and the revenue received at such point will be sufficient to justify
it. Said railroad company, for the comfort and accommodation of its passengers, must have,
when required by the Public Service Commission, at each of the passenger stations along the
line of railroad operated by such company, sufficient sitting or waiting rooms, to be determined
by the commission, for passengers waiting for trains, having regard to sex, which shall be
suitably heated in cold weather, and supplied with sufficient fresh drinking water, when passengers
waiting for trains are present, and with sufficient and comfortable chairs or seats; and connected
therewith a sufficient number of comfortable privies, or...
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37-4-83
Section 37-4-83 Powers of commission - Promulgation of rules; requiring records; inspections.
In order to determine whether or not each such pipeline system is operating in compliance
with the required safety standards and to enforce such compliance, the Alabama Public Service
Commission shall have the right, power and authority to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations
to facilitate such purposes. It may require each such pipeline system to make, maintain and
file such books, papers, records and documents as the commission may deem necessary, which
books, papers, records and documents shall be made available to members of the commission
and their employees upon request. Authorized personnel of the commission shall be authorized
to inspect all such pipeline systems, facilities and equipment and shall have the right of
access and entry to all buildings and property owned, leased or operated by such systems.
(Acts 1969, Ex. Sess., No. 204, p. 273, §4.)...
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