County sets bus routes, rates, safety, and insurance rules

commission. (a) The commission by order shall fix, prescribe, and establish routes, schedules, rates, standards of safety, and insurance requirements as set forth in this section. All these matters shall be determined as to each carrier upon the hearing in connection with the original application for certificate of convenience and necessity, and thereafter, after a hearing upon application, complaint, or the commission’s own motion, may be changed, amended or altered. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION § 18-9 (b) Any rate, fare, and charge made or charged by any carrier or by two or more carriers jointly shall be just and reasonable. Any schedule and route shall be established in accordance with the public convenience and necessity. Any standard of safety shall accord with best practices for the safety of the public. No common carrier shall operate and use the public highways until it has filed a bond or policy of insurance or other contract in writing with the commission under the same conditions as are required for common carriers under the control of the public utilities commission, except that in the case of taxicabs, the insurance requirement shall be as set forth in article 2 of this chapter. (c) No hearing shall be held regarding any matter covered by this section except after published notice, that is, notice by publication in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the County in accordance with the requirements of chapter 91, Hawai‘i Revised Statutes.