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434. Investigation of accidents; notice.
General investigation. Com-
plaints.
435. Reasonable rates; safe and ade-
quate service; power of commis-
sion.
436. Time schedules; additional trains
or cars.
437. Commission may inaugurate sys-
tem of accounts; access thereto ;
penalty for divulging informa-
tion.
438. Consent of commission necessary to
construction of railroad, transfer
of franchise, acquisition of stock
of another road.
439. Regulation of issue of stock, bonds,
notes, etc.; proviso. Merger.
440. Penalties; procedure.
441. Freight rates on interstate traffic.
442. Investigation of the value of the
property of corporations; re-
ports; notice; contest.
443. Sub-title applicable to gas and
electric light companies.
444. Adequate service : reasonable
charges; appeal; discriminations
and preferences, prohibited; pro-
viso.
445. Supervision and powers of com-
mission; inspections and exami-
nations; divulging Information.
Inspectors of meters; annual re-
ports.
446. Inspection of meters.
447. Consent of commission necessary
to construction, or exercise of
franchises; municipalities.
448. Issue of stocks, bonds, notes, etc. ;
consolidation or lease.
449. Transfer or lease of franchises; ac-
quiring stock or bonds of another
company.
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450. Complaints; iuvestigatious.
451. Notice of complaint; hearing; de-
termination.
452. Violation of orders of commission ;
penalty. Action in name of com-
mission; judgment.
453. Supervision over telephone and
telegraph companies; powers of
commission; reports; penalty.
454. Adequate service; reasonable rates ;
discriminations and preferences,
prohibited; repairs.
455. Application of other sections of
this sub-title to telephone, etc.,
companies.
456. Water, heat, refrigerating and
power companies.
457. Procedure in courts by parties dis-
satisfied with commission's or-
ders; precedence; time : injunc-
tion.
458. Evidence before the court which
was not before the commission —
procedure.
459. Appeal.
460. Burden of proof.
461. Practice and rules of evidence :
process.
462. Witnesses may not refuse to tes-
tify on the ground of incrimina-
tion; proviso.
463. Substantial compliance only re-
quired.
464. Commission, etc., may enter prem-
ises.
465. Biennial audits of accounts, etc..
of commission; reports.
466. Incidental powers.
467. Application of sub-title limited to
Maryland.
468. Sections of this sub-title, independ-
ent.
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1904, art. 23, sec. 417. 1888, art. 23, sec. 303. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 216.
1908, ch. 240, sec. 1.
1. (1) Except as therein otherwise provided, the sections of this
article, numbered 1 to 37, 61 to 63 and 66 to 104, all inclusive, shall
become and be operative on and after the first day of June, in the
year nineteen hundred and eight (1908), and the provisions thereof
shall apply to and govern all corporations then existing and thereafter
formed, and all corporate acts thereafter done; provided (first), that
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