Oklahoma Municipalities

Excerpt from Oklahoma Municipalities: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Convention of the Oklahoma Municipal League From the foregoing it is obvious that the potential powers of the Commision are extensive. The Oklahoma Supreme Court, in the case of St. Louis and San Francisco R. R. Co. Vs. Williams, et. Declared: The Corporation Commission, by virtue of the provisions of Sec. 18, Art. 9, of the Constitution, is vested with extra ordinary powers, being authorized to exercise not only legislative but also executive, administrative, and judicial functions. The first legislature extended the jurisdiction of the Comm-is sion so as to include control and supervision over the physical con nection and switching facilities of the railorads at all junction points and incorporated towns where two or more railroads are in cluded.(1) By force of' this provision the Commission is vested with the power to hear all complaints with reference to the switching and transfer facilities and may upon investigation or upon its own motion issue orders requiring the railroad companies to maintain such physical connections, including switching facilities and union depots, as the public interest may require. However, such order of the Commission must be predicated upon a gift to the railroad of the right-of-way or at such reasonable cost as the Commission may deem proper. The cost of the construction and.maintenance of such facilities shall be borne by the respective companies as they may agree, or in case of disagreement, as the Commission shall direct. In addition to the power of regulating and controlling the con-duct of the railroad companies in relation to their public duties the Com mission by virtue of the foregoing legislation is vested with the additional power to regulate and control the public functions of the railroads in their relation to each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.