CHAPTER 4. MOTOR CARRIERS

PART A. MOTOR CARRIERS

§161. Declaration of policy

            The business of operating motor vehicles intrastate for hire as common or contract carriers of persons or household goods, waste, or any other classification of carriers, other than a contract carrier by bus, created by law for compensation upon the public highways and bridges of this state is a business affected with a public interest.

            Acts 1995, No. 301, §2, eff. June 15, 1995; Acts 1999, No. 631, §2; Acts 2008, No. 724, §2, eff. July 6, 2008.