SIMPSON.docx

November 18, 1996
Chris Simpson, Owner/Operator
Bald Mountain Taxi
PO Box 3895
Ketchum, ID 83440
Dear Mr. Simpson:
As you know, the Consent Agreement you signed on behalf of Bald Mountain Taxi requires your compliance with Idaho motor carrier statutes, specifically Idaho Code § 61-802 which makes it “unlawful for any motor carrier . . . to operate any motor vehicle in motor transportation without first having obtained from the [IPUC] a permit covering such operations.”  The PUC’s Regulated Carrier Division was recently informed that Bald Mountain Taxi continues to advertise by television transportation and services it is not authorized to provide.  You represented to the Regulated Carrier Division that such ads were continued in error and that you would discontinue inappropriate advertising.
The Regulated Carrier Division has provided to you an application for operating authority, and I understand the application has not been completed and returned to the Commission.  If you intend to provide the transportation services you are advertising, Bald Mountain Taxi must complete the application and return it to the PUC and receive operating authority prior to providing the transportation.  If Bald Mountain Taxi does not intend to provide the service, the misleading advertisements should be removed, as you indicated would be the case.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Weldon B. Stutzman
Deputy Attorney General
bls/L-simpson.ws
cc:  Ron Law, RCD Administrator