PUBLIC LAW 95-473—OCT. 17, 1978 of records required to be prepared or compiled under this subchapter— (1) by carriers, brokers, and lessors, including records related to movement of traffic and receipts and expenditures of money; and (2) by persons furnishing cars or protective service against heat or cold to or for a rail or express carrier providing transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission under subchapter I of chapter 105 of this title to the extent related to those cars or that service. (b) The Commission, or an employee designated by the Commission, may on demand and display of proper credentials— (1) inspect and examine the lands, buildings, and equipment of a carrier, broker, or lessor; and (2) inspect and copy any record of— (A) a carrier, broker, lessor, or association; (B) a person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with a carrier if the Commission considers inspection relevant to that person's relation to, or transaction with, that carrier; and (C) a person furnishing cars or protective service against heat or cold to or for a ran or express carrier if the Commission prescribed the form of that record. (c) The Commission, or an employee designated by the Commission, may, during normal business hours, inspect and copy any record related to motor vehicle transportation of a cooperative association or federation of cooperative associations required to notify the Commission under section 10526(a)(5) of this title. However, the Commission may not prescribe the form of records to be maintained by a cooperative association or federation of cooperative associations. (d) The Commission may prescribe the time period during which operating, accounting, and financial records must be preserved by carriers, brokers, lessors, and persons furnishing cars or protective services. § 11145. Reports by carriers, lessors, and associations (a) The Interstate Commerce Commission may require— (1) carriers, brokers, lessors, and associations, or classes of them as the Commission may prescribe, to file annual, periodic, and special reports with the Commission containing answers to questions asked by it; and (2) a person furnishing cars or protective services against heat or cold to a rail or express carrier providing transportation subject to this subtitle, to file reports with the Commission containing answers to questions about those cars or services. (b)(1) An annual report shall contain an account, in as much detail as the Commission may require, of the affairs of the carrier, broker, lessor, or association for the 12-month period ending on the 31st day of December of each year. However, when an annual report is made by a motor carrier, a broker, or a lessor or an association maintained by or interested in one of them, the person making the report may elect to make it for the 13-month period accounting year ending at the close of one of the last 7 days of each calendar year if the books of the person making the report are kept by that person on the basis of that accounting year.
92 STAT. 1427
Ante, p. 1359.
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49 USC 11145.
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