Title 46, Chapter 7, Section 13
( 46-7-13)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in order
to authorize the provision of passenger or household goods service
for which there is an immediate and urgent need to a point or
points, or within a territory, with respect to which there is no
motor common or contract carrier service capable of meeting such
need, upon receipt of an application for temporary emergency
authority and upon payment of the appropriate fee as fixed by
statute, the commissioner, under the authority of this Code section,
may, in his or her discretion and without a hearing or other prior
proceeding, grant to any person temporary motor carrier authority
for such service. The order granting such authority shall contain
the commissioner's findings supporting his or her determination
under the authority of this Code section that there is an unmet
immediate and urgent need for such service and shall contain such
conditions as the commissioner finds necessary with respect to such
authority. Unless otherwise provided in this Code section, such
emergency temporary motor carrier authority, unless suspended or
revoked for good cause within such period, shall be valid for such
time as the commissioner shall specify but not for more than an
aggregate of 30 days. Such authority shall in no case be renewed
and shall create no presumption that corresponding permanent
authority will be granted thereafter, except that, where a motor
carrier granted temporary emergency motor carrier authority under
the provisions of this Code section makes application during the
period of said temporary emergency authority for permanent motor
common or contract carrier authority corresponding to that
authorized in its temporary emergency authority, the temporary
emergency motor carrier authority will be extended to the
finalization of the permanent authority application unless sooner
suspended or revoked for good cause within the extended period. |