48:2-15. Authority over interstate commerce; interstate co-operation

(a) The board or the members thereof, whenever authorized by an Act of Congress to exercise any power or authority over interstate commerce, shall have full power and authority to administer the provisions of such act within this State, and in cases authorized under such act, in co-operation with boards of other States and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

(b) The board shall have all the power, and shall exercise its authority to regulate the transportation by any carrier for hire of passengers and property by land, water or air, between any place in this State and any place in another State or between places in this State whether or not partly through another State, including regulation of the adequacy of service and the safety of operation and equipment, except power and authority which has been heretofore expressly reserved to the United States by a valid enactment of the Congress of the United States, or which is hereafter so reserved by such an enactment of the Congress under powers delegated to the United States by the Constitution of the United States.

(c) The board, in exercising the power and authority granted to it by this section, shall co-operate with any similar duly constituted agency of any adjoining State in respect to the transportation of passengers and property between any place in this State and any place in an adjoining State or between places in this State partly through an adjoining State, and the board shall enforce the decision of any such agency of any adjoining State in respect to any such transportation through or within this State unless it shall affirmatively find that the action or omission to act required by the decision of any such agency of any adjoining State (1) is not required for the public convenience and necessity and (2) is detrimental to the best interest of the people of this State.

Amended by L.1957, c. 13, p. 31, s. 1, eff. April 3, 1957.