§ 46-7-13 - Temporary emergency authority to operate as a motor common or contract carrier
O.C.G.A. 46-7-13 (2010)
46-7-13. Temporary emergency authority to operate as a motor common or contract carrier.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in order to authorize the provision of passenger or household goods service for which there is an immediate and urgent need to a point or points, or within a territory, with respect to which there is no motor common or contract carrier service capable of meeting such need, upon receipt of an application for temporary emergency authority and upon payment of the appropriate fee as fixed by statute, the commission, under the authority of this Code section, may, in its discretion and without a hearing or other prior proceeding, grant to any person temporary motor carrier authority for such service. The order granting such authority shall contain the commission's findings supporting its determination under the authority of this Code section that there is an unmet immediate and urgent need for such service and shall contain such conditions as the commission finds necessary with respect to such authority. Unless otherwise provided in this Code section, such emergency temporary motor carrier authority, unless suspended or revoked for good cause within such period, shall be valid for such time as the commission shall specify but not for more than an aggregate of 30 days. Such authority shall in no case be renewed and shall create no presumption that corresponding permanent authority will be granted thereafter, except that, where a motor carrier granted temporary emergency motor carrier authority under the provisions of this Code section makes application during the period of said temporary emergency authority for permanent motor common or contract carrier authority corresponding to that authorized in its temporary emergency authority, the temporary emergency motor carrier authority will be extended to the finalization of the permanent authority application unless sooner suspended or revoked for good cause within the extended period.