Bus Subsidy Proposals: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 2500 ... [and] H.R. 13019 ... |
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$3 million AB&W acquisition air pollution amendment Area Transit Commission authority automobile bill BROYHILL bus companies bus service bus system buses CABELL capital carrier cash fare Chairman Commerce Clause Committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cost Council of Governments Court D.C. Code D.C. Transit System debt District of Columbia EARLE CABELL fare increase FAUNTROY Federal funds going GRANKE grant GUDE HAHN highways HOGAN improve interest legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Loconto malls Maryland mass transit bus MCMILLAN METRO Metropolitan Area Transit municipality Northern Virginia operating owner pany parking passengers pedestrian PENNINO percent police power present Prince Georges County problem prohibition proposed public ownership public transit question regular route regulation revenues riders ridership rolling stock SCHNEIDER Shirley Highway statement streets subsidy tion traffic Transit Company urban Washington Metropolitan Area WATERMAN WMATC
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Page 75 - it extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the state.
Page 78 - Congress has by sundry statutes empowered the commissioners to make building regulations; plumbing regulations; to make and enforce all such reasonable and usual police regulations as they may deem necessary for the protection of lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the District, and other regulations of a municipal nature.
Page 94 - We are in danger of forgetting that a strong public desire to improve the public condition is not enough to warrant achieving the desire by a shorter cut than the constitutional way of paying for the change.
Page 147 - Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service ; and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable the carriers, under honest, economical, and efficient management to provide such service.
Page 147 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall give due consideration, among other factors, to the effect of rates on the movement of traffic by the carrier or carriers for which the rates are prescribed ; to the need, in the public interest, of adequate and efficient railway transportation service at the lowest cost consistent with the furnishing of such service ; and to the need of revenues sufficient to enable the carriers, under honest, economical, and...
Page 73 - If such violation is a continuing one, each day of such violation shall constitute a separate offense...
Page 153 - The just compensation safeguarded to the utility by the Fourteenth Amendment is a reasonable return on the value of the property used at the time that it is being used for the public service.
Page 107 - Company have been duly accepted by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, as appears by the corporate acts and proceedings of said company, and final deed of surrender from the said Potomac Company, dated on the 15th day of August, 1828, duly executed and recorded in the several counties of the states of Virginia and Maryland and the District of Columbia wherein said Potomac Company held any lands, and wherein the canals and works of said company were situated ; which said corporate acts and proceedings...
Page 84 - Subject to the provisions of this act, local authorities shall have no power to pass, enforce or maintain any ordinance, rule or regulation requiring of any owner or operator of a motor vehicle any license or permit to use the public highways, or excluding or prohibiting any motor...
Page 91 - Classification, for purposes of taxation, or of regulation under the police power, is a legislative function with which the courts have no right to interfere unless it is so clearly arbitrary or unreasonable as to invade some constitutional right. A State may classify persons and objects for the purpose of legislation, provided the classification is based on proper and justifiable distinctions (St.