Montana Code Annotated 2003

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     69-13-302. Connection and interchange facilities. (1) Every common carrier shall exchange crude petroleum tonnage, coal tonnage, or petroleum or coal products tonnage with each like common carrier. The commission shall have the power to require such connections and facilities for the interchange of such tonnage to be made at every locality reached by both pipelines whenever a necessity therefor exists, subject to such rates and regulations as may be made by the commission. Any such common carrier under like rules shall be required to install and maintain facilities for the receipt and delivery of crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof of patrons at all points on such pipeline.
     (2) No carrier shall be required to receive or transport any crude petroleum, coal, or the products thereof except such as may be marketable under rules to be prescribed by the commission, which they are hereby empowered and required to prescribe. The commission is also empowered and required to make rules for the ascertainment of the amount of water and other foreign matter in crude oil, coal, or the products thereof tendered for transportation, for deduction therefor, and for the amount of deduction to be made for temperature, leakage, and evaporation.
     (3) The recital herein of particular powers on the part of said commission shall not be construed to limit the general powers conferred by this chapter.

     History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 8, Ex. L. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3852, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3852, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 190, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 170, L. 1963; amd. Sec. 20, Ch. 315, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 8-205(part).

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