O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-9-135 (2019)

Duty of passengers to remain in assigned car, compartment, or seat; ejectment of passenger by conductor and railroad employees

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) No passenger shall remain in any car, compartment, or seat other than the one to which he has been assigned. The conductor and any and all employees on such cars shall have the power to eject from the train or car any passenger who refuses to remain in the car, compartment, or seat assigned to him.

(b) Any person who violates this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

(Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 157, § 3; Civil Code 1895, § 2271; Civil Code 1910, § 2719; Code 1933, §§ 18-208, 18-9904.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Savannah Elec. Co. v. Lowe, 27 Ga. App. 350, 108 S.E. 313 (1921); Glover v.

State, 105 Ga. App. 332, 124 S.E.2d 484 (1962).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 13 C.J.S., Carriers, § 588.