Sec. 40. (a) All applications under this chapter for a common carrier certificate or a contract carrier permit to operate motor vehicles, intrastate or interstate, shall be made on forms prescribed by the department.

(b) All applications for a common carrier certificate of public convenience and necessity, or a contract carrier permit, to operate motor vehicles intrastate on the public highways, which applications require a public hearing thereon, shall be accompanied by a filing fee of one hundred dollars ($100). Each petition for reinstatement of a common carrier certificate of public convenience and necessity, or a contract carrier permit, to operate motor vehicles intrastate, on the highways of this state, shall be accompanied by a filing fee of fifty dollars ($50).

(c) All applications for a temporary certificate of public convenience and necessity, or for a contract carrier permit to operate motor vehicles on the highways of this state in intrastate commerce, shall be accompanied by a filing fee of one hundred dollars ($100).

(d) All applications for a change in the name of the holder of a common carrier certificate of public convenience and necessity, of a common carrier certificate of authority or certificate of registration, or of a contract carrier permit, which change of name does not involve a change in the ownership of the operating rights of the certificate or permit holder, shall be made by verified petition to the department, and the applications shall be accompanied by a filing fee of twenty-five dollars ($25).

(e) In addition to the filing fees prescribed in subsection (b), all applications for a common carrier certificate of public convenience and necessity, or for a contract carrier permit, to operate motor vehicles intrastate, on the public highways, which applications require a public hearing thereon, shall be accompanied by a publication fee of eighty dollars ($80). Whenever any republication is required through no fault of the department, the party responsible therefor shall be required to pay an additional publication fee of eighty dollars ($80) for each republication.

(f) Each petition for rehearing of an application for a common carrier certificate of public convenience and necessity, or for a contract carrier permit, to operate motor vehicles intrastate, on the public highways, shall be accompanied by a filing fee of twenty-five dollars ($25).

(g) Each application or petition for alteration or change of a common carrier certificate of public convenience and necessity, or a contract carrier permit, to operate motor vehicles intrastate, on the public highways, shall be accompanied by a filing fee of fifty dollars ($50).

(h) Each application requesting permission to deviate from the department's tariff publishing regulations shall be accompanied by a filing fee of fifteen dollars ($15).

As added by P.L.99-1989, SEC.13. Amended by P.L.110-1995, SEC.27; P.L.176-2006, SEC.9.