Montana § 69-13-301 - Records And Reports

§ 69-13-301. Records And Reports

Records and reports. (1) Common carriers of crude petroleum, coal, or the products of crude petroleum or coal or of carbon dioxide from a plant or facility that produces or captures carbon dioxide shall make and publish their tariffs under rules that may be prescribed by the commission. The commission shall require the common carriers to make reports and may investigate their books and records kept in connection with the business. (2) The commission shall require common carrier pipelines to make monthly reports, duly verified under oath, of the total quantities of crude petroleum, coal, or the products of crude petroleum or coal or of carbon dioxide from a plant or facility that produces or captures carbon dioxide owned by the pipelines, of the quantities held by them in storage for others, and of their unfilled storage capacity. Publicity may not be given by the commission to the reports as to stock of crude petroleum, coal, or the products of crude petroleum or coal or of carbon dioxide from a plant or facility that produces or captures carbon dioxide on hand of any particular pipeline, but the commission in its discretion may make public the aggregate amounts held by all the pipelines making the reports and of their aggregate storage capacity.