Mayfield–Newton Act
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| Other short titles | Mayfield Act Pub. L. 69-804 Ch. 510 |
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| Long title | An act to amend the Interstate Commerce Act and the Transportation Act, 1920, and for other purposes. |
| Enacted by | the 69th United States Congress |
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| Acts amended | Interstate Commerce Act Esch–Cummins Act |
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In United States federal law, the Mayfield–Newton Act, or the Mayfield Act,[2] was an act passed by the United States Congress on March 4, 1927,[3] amending the Interstate Commerce Act, the Esch–Cummins Act, and the Uniform Bill of Lading[4] to "authorize reduced freight rates in cases of emergency",[5] including earthquake, fire, flood, famine drought, epidemic, and pestilence.[6] Sponsored by Sen. Earle B. Mayfield (D) of Texas and Rep. Walter H. Newton (R) of Minnesota, the act changed the original maximum suspension, which had been fixed by the Mann-Elkins Act of 1910, to 120 days, extendable by the Interstate Commerce Commission to 6 months – the Esch-Cummins Act reduced the extension period to 30 days while the Mayfield-Newton Act of 1927 replaced the provision with a single period of 7 months.
References
[edit]- ^ 1927 Congressional Record, Vol. 73, Page S5917 (March 4, 1927)
- ^ "TOPN: Mayfield Act". Legal Information Institute. Cornell Law School. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
- ^ "Public Law 804" (PDF). LegisWorks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
- ^ I.C.C. Practitioners' Journal. Association of Interstate Commerce Commission Practitioners. 1951.
- ^ 1927 Congressional Record, Vol. 73, Page S5897 (March 4, 1927)
- ^ Commerce, United States Congress House Committee on Interstate and Foreign (1980). The Rail Act of 1980: Background Materials. U.S. Government Printing Office.