O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-9-138 (2019)

Granting of annual passes by common carriers to sheriffs and their deputies

✓ 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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Common carriers operating in this state may issue annual passes to all sheriffs and their lawful deputies, provided that the term ‘‘sheriffs and their lawful deputies,’’ as used in this Code section, means one sheriff and one lawful deputy for each county; provided, further, that whenever any sheriff or deputy travels on such free pass, such sheriff or deputy shall have no right to charge or collect, from any source, railroad fare covering such trip.

History

(Ga. L. 1922, p. 173, § 1; Code 1933, § 18-218.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 13 Am. Jur. 2d, Carriers, §§ 272, 729. C.J.S. - 13 C.J.S., Carriers, §§ 499, 502. ALR. - Evidence of right to free transportation on public conveyance, 3 ALR 387. Carriers: free passes to public officials or employees, 8 ALR 682.

Constitutionality of statute authorizing issuance of passes by carriers, 33 ALR 373. Contractual exemption from or limitation of liability for injury to passenger traveling on pass as available to one other than the carrier issuing pass, 147 ALR 778.