PUBLIC LAW 96-296—JULY 1, 1980 (b) Section 10705 of title 49, United States Ckxie, is amended by redesignating subsectibns (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) (and any references thereto) as subsections (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g), respectively, and by inserting after subsection (a) the following new subsection: "(b)(1) The Interstate Commerce Commission may, and shall when it considers it desirable in the public interest, prescribe through routes, joint classifications, joint rates (including maximum or minimum rates or both), the division of joint rates, and the conditions under which those routes must be operated, for a motor common carrier of property providing transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission under subchapter II of chapter 105 of this title with another such carrier or with a water common carrier of property. "(2) The Commission may not require a motor common carrier of property, without its consent, to include in a through route substantially less than the entire length of its route and the route of any intermediate carrier which is operated in conjunction and under common management or control with such motor common carrier of property which lies between the termini of such proposed through routes (A) unless inclusion of such routes would make the through route unreasonably circuitous as compared with another practicable through route which could otherwise be established, or (B) unless the Commission finds that the through route proposed to be established is needed in order to provide adequate, more efficient, or more economic transportation. In prescribing through routes the Commission shall, so far as is consistent with the public interest, and subject to the preceding sentence, give reasonable preference to the carrier which originates the traffic". (c) Section 10705(c) of title 49, United States Code, as redesignated by subsection (b) of this section, is amended by inserting "or (b)" after "subsection (a)" in the first sentence and by striking out "or water carrier" in the second sentence and inserting in lieu thereof "carrier, water carrier, or motor common carrier of property". (d) The first sentence of section 10705(e) of title 49, United States Code, as redes^ated by subsection (b) of this section, is amended by striking out "a rail or water common carrier tariff" and inserting in lieu thereof "a tariff of a rail carrier, water common carrier, or motor common carrier of property". (e) Subsection (fKD of section 10705 of title 49, United States Code, as redesignated by subsection (b) of this section, is amended by striking out "subsection (a) or (b)" and inserting in lieu thereof "subsection (a), (b), or (c)". (f) Section 10705 of title 49, United States Code, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(h) Any motor common carrier of property who is a party to a through route and joint rate, whether established by such carrier under section 10703 of this title or prescribed by the Commission under subsection (b) of this section, shall promptly pay divisions or make interline settlements, as the case may be, with other carriers which are parties to such through route and joint rate. In the event of undue delinquency in the settlement of such divisions or interline settlements, such through routes and joint rates may be suspended or canceled under rules prescribed by the Commission.. (g) Section 10705(g) of title 49, United States Code, as redesignated by subsection (b) of this section, is amended by striking out "subsection (e)" and inserting in lieu thereof "subsection (f)".
94 STAT. 813
49 USC 10521.
Preference to carrier.
Division payments or interline settlements. 49 USC 10703.
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