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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 2180

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Representatives D. Sommers, Walk, Moyer, Fuhrman and Padden

Read first time 3/1/89 and referred to Committee on Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to motor vehicles; and amending RCW 81.80.220.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 81.80.220, chapter 14, Laws of 1961 and RCW 81.80.220 are each amended to read as follows:

          No "common carrier" or "contract carrier" shall collect or receive a greater, less, or different remuneration for the transportation of property or for any service in connection therewith than the rates and charges which shall have been legally established and filed with the commission, or as are specified in the contract or contracts filed, as the case may be, nor shall any such carrier refund or remit in any manner or by any device any portion of the rates and charges required to be collected by each tariff or contract or filing with the commission.  Except for traffic moving within Pierce, King, and Snohomish counties, and household goods traffic, this section does not apply to traffic moving wholly within the borders of commercial zones established by the commission pursuant to RCW 81.80.400.

          The commission may check the records of all carriers under this chapter and of those employing the services of the carrier for the purpose of discovering all discriminations, under or overcharges and rebates, and may suspend or revoke permits for violations of this section.

          The commission may refuse to accept any time schedule or tariff or contract that will, in the opinion of the commission, limit the service of a carrier to profitable trips only or to the carrying of high class commodities in competition with other carriers who give a complete service and thus afford one carrier an unfair advantage over a competitor.