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PUBLIC LAW 86-794-SEPT. 15, 1960

cate holder shall be given reasonable time and opportunity to remedy such inadequacy before any certificate shall be granted to an applicant proposing to operate over such route. " (h) No certificate under this section may be transferred unless such transfer is approved by the Commission as being consistent with the public interest. " (i) No carrier shall abandon any route specified in a certificate issued to such carrier under this section, unless such carrier is authorized to do so by an order issued by the Commission. The Commission shall issue such order, if upon application by such carrier, and after notice and opportunity for hearing, it finds that the abandonment of such route is consistent with the public interest. The Commission, by regulations or otherwise, may authorize such temporary suspensions of routes as may be consistent with the public interest. The fact that a carrier is operating a route or furnishing a service at a loss shall not, of itself, determine the question of whether abandonment of the route or service over the route is consistent with the public interest as long as the carrier earns a reasonable return. "Schedule of Fares, Regulations, and Practices "5. (a) Each carrier shall file with the Commission, and print, and keep open to public inspection, tariffs showing (1) all fares it charges for transportation subject to this Act, including any joint fares established for through routes over which it performs transportation subject to this Act in conjunction with another carrier, and (2) to the extent required by regulations of the Commission, the regulations and practices of such carrier affecting such fares. Such tariffs shall be filed, posted, and published in such form and manner, and shall contain such information, as the Commission by regulations shall prescribe. The (commission may reject any tariff so filed which is not consistent with this section and such regulations. Any tariff so rejected shall be void. " (b) Each carrier which, immediately prior to the effective date of this section, was engaged in transportation specified in section 1(a) of this Title II, shall file a tariff m compliance with paragraph (a) of this Section 5 within ninety (90) days after such date. The fares shown in such tariff shall be the fares which such carrier was authorized to charge, immediately prior to such date, under the law under which it was then regulated, and the regulations and practices affecting such fares which shall be shown in such tariff shall be such of the regulations and practices, then in effect under such law, as the Commission shall by regulations require. Such tariff shall become effective upon filing. Pending the filing of such tariff, the fares which such carrier was authorized to charge immediately prior to the effective date of this Act under the law under which it was then regulated, and the regulations and practices relating to such fares, shall be the lawful fares and practices and regulations. "(c) Every carrier shall keep currently on file with the Commission, if the Commission so requires, the established divisions of all joint fares for transportation subject to this Act in which such carrier participates. " (d) No carrier shall charge, for any transportation subject to this Act, any fare other than the applicable fare specified in a tariff filed by it under this section and in effect at the time. During the period before a tariff filed by it under this section has become effective, no carrier referred to in subsection (b) shall charge, for any transportation subject to this Act, any fare other than the fare which it was

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