Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 39-12 - Motor Carriers of Property
Section 39-12-18. - Revocation of common carrier certificate.

§ 39-12-18. Revocation of common carrier certificate.
Any irregular- or regular-route common carrier who or that, during any period of not less than sixty (60) consecutive days, fails or has failed to render any part of the service authorized by the common carrier’s certificate, except that for the reason that highways over which the common carrier must operate are impassable because of floods, conditions of the highways, or other reasonable causes, shall be deemed to have abandoned that part of the service authorized by the certificate; and if, after a hearing, the administrator finds that the carrier has so failed to render service in accordance with the common carrier’s certificate and not for any reason set forth in the foregoing exceptions, the common carrier’s rights thereto to the extent of the common carrier’s failure to render service shall be forfeited; and the administrator shall revoke or reissue the common carrier’s certificate subject to the resulting limitations.
History of Section.P.L. 1958, ch. 87, § 1.

Structure Rhode Island General Laws

Rhode Island General Laws

Title 39 - Public Utilities and Carriers

Chapter 39-12 - Motor Carriers of Property

Section 39-12-1. - Declaration of policy.

Section 39-12-2. - Definitions.

Section 39-12-3. - Exemption from regulations.

Section 39-12-4. - General powers and duties of the administrator.

Section 39-12-5. - Administration of chapter — Investigations — Hearings.

Section 39-12-6. - Requirement of certificate of public convenience and necessity for common carriers — Application.

Section 39-12-7. - Issuance of certificate to common carrier.

Section 39-12-8. - Declaration of public interest in contract carriers.

Section 39-12-9. - Permit requirement for contract carriers — Application.

Section 39-12-10. - Issuance of permit to contract carrier.

Section 39-12-11. - Publication of tariffs of common carriers.

Section 39-12-12. - Establishment of rates and charges of common carriers — Rate discrimination — Rebates.

Section 39-12-13. - Alteration of common carrier rates by the administrator.

Section 39-12-14. - Factors governing determination of just and reasonable rates — Burden of proof.

Section 39-12-15. - Filing of contracts by contract carriers — Form of contract.

Section 39-12-16. - Duty of contract carriers to establish reasonable rates — Publication of rate schedules — Rate discrimination — Rebates.

Section 39-12-17. - Determination as to basis of contract rate.

Section 39-12-18. - Revocation of common carrier certificate.

Section 39-12-19. - Revocation of contract carrier permit.

Section 39-12-20. - Transfer of certificates or permits — Joint control of common carriers.

Section 39-12-21. - Dual operations.

Section 39-12-21.1. - Filing of contracts.

Section 39-12-22. - Issuance of a permit to interstate carriers.

Section 39-12-23. - Transfer of interstate carrier permit.

Section 39-12-24. - [Repealed.]

Section 39-12-25. - Operation by fiduciary.

Section 39-12-26. - Registration and identification of vehicles.

Section 39-12-27. - Security for protection of the public.

Section 39-12-27.1. - Advertisements by transporters of household goods.

Section 39-12-28. - Bill of lading requirements — Liability for damages.

Section 39-12-29. - Agent for service of process, notices, or orders on interstate carriers.

Section 39-12-30. - Accounts, records, and reports.

Section 39-12-31. - Employment of personnel.

Section 39-12-32. - Enforcement powers of inspectors.

Section 39-12-33. - Enforcement by police departments.

Section 39-12-34. - Self-incrimination — Immunity from prosecution.

Section 39-12-35. - Orders, rules, and regulations — Suspension or revocation of certificate or permits.

Section 39-12-36. - Unlawful operations — Penalty.

Section 39-12-37. - Rebate, concession, discrimination, or fraudulent evasion of regulation.

Section 39-12-38. - Unauthorized divulging of information by administrator’s personnel.

Section 39-12-38.1. - Records and abstract of cases.

Section 39-12-39. - Annual appropriations.

Section 39-12-40 - — 39-12-42. [Repealed.]

Section 39-12-43. - Severability.

Section 39-12-44. - [Obsolete.]