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place, position or appointment. And every common carrier, railroad cor-
poration, street railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation,
telephone company, telegraph company, water company, and all other com-
panies or corporations subject to this sub-title or any of the provisions
thereof, and every officer, attorney, agent and employee thereof is hereby
forbidden and prohibited to offer to any commissioner, general counsel to
the commission, or the People's Counsel, to the secretary of the commis-
sion, or to any person employed by the commission, any office, place,
appointment or position, or to offer to give to any commissioner, to the
general counsel to the commission, to the People's Counsel, to the secretary
of the commission or to any officer employed or appointed to office, or to
any person employed in the service of the commission or in connection with
the work of said commission, any free pass or transportation or any reduc-
tion in fares, to which the public generally are not entitled, or any free
carriage for freight or property, or any present, gift or gratuity of any
kind. If any commissioner, general counsel to the commission, the People's
Counsel, the secretary of the com mission, or any person employed or ap-
pointed to office or in the service of the commission shall violate any pro-
visions of this sub-title, the Governor shall remove him from the office held
by him. No commissioner and no employee or official engaged in the serv-
ice of or in any manner connected with the said commission shall hold any
office or position, or be engaged in any business or avocation, the duties of
which are incompatible with the duties of his office or employment as com-
missioner, or in the service of or in connection with the work of the said
commission.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 359. 1912, sec. 423. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 11 (p. 353). 1927, ch. 354.
359. After an order has been made by the Commission, any party inter-
ested therein may apply for a rehearing in respect to any matter deter-
mined therein, and the Commission may grant and hold such a rehearing
if, in its judgment, sufficient reason therefor be made to appear; if a
rehearing shall be granted, the same shall be determined by the Commis-
sion within thirty days after the same shall be finally submitted. Any
application for such a rehearing shall not excuse any common carrier, rail-
road corporation, or street railroad corporation, or any other corporation,
or company or person, subject to any of the provisions of this sub-title, from
complying with or obeying any order, or any requirements of any order of
the Commission, or operate in any manner to stay or postpone the enforce-
ment thereof, except as the Commission may by order direct. If, after
such rehearing and consideration of the facts, including those arising since
the making of the order, the Commission shall be of opinion that the orig-
inal order, or any part thereof, is in any respect unjust or unwarranted, the
Commission may abrogate, change or modify the same. An order made for
any such rehearing, abrogating, changing or modifying the original order
shall have the same force and effect as an original order.
Every order of the Commission shall be served upon every person or cor-
poration to be affected thereby, either by personal delivery of a certified
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