Definition of "interstate commerce commission" []

• The governmental commision charged with making and enforcing regulations concerning interstate commerce. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Hepburn Railway Act of 1906 enlarged the interstate commerce commission; it extended the commission's power over oil pipe lines, express companies, and other interstate carriers; it gave the commission the right to reduce rates found to be unreasonable and discriminatory; it forbade "midnight tariffs," that is, sudden changes in rates favoring certain shippers; and it prohibited common carriers from transporting goods owned by themselves, especially coal, except for their own proper use."
• "The form shall correspond as nearly as may be to those established by the interstate commerce commission for this type of com - mon carrier and shall provide for the proper certification of the accuracy thereof."