Fleet Transport Co. v. Tennessee Public Service Commission

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

This action was brought to challenge the constitutionality of Chapter 349 of the Public Acts of 1975. This statute amended that portion of T.C.A. § 65-1503(e) which placed under the Public Service Commission certain commercial haulers of petroleum products and other hazardous materials. The amendment purported to benefit carriers which had been engaged in bona fide operations as of May 17, 1971. As construed by the Chancellor, the amendment was a belated “grandfather clause” to a 1971 statute which had for the first time placed such carriers under the jurisdiction of…