O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-9-150 (2019)

Duty of railroad companies to furnish passengers with drinking water and lights

✓ 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) Railroad companies shall keep in each passenger car or in any car in which passengers are transported an adequate supply of good, pure drinking water at all hours during the day and night. Any railroad company which violates this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) Any conductor or agent of a railroad who, after being requested by a passenger to furnish a sufficient supply of water to the passenger in each car, or a light at night, passes any depot or station without so doing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be prosecuted in any county through which the railroad of which he is agent or conductor runs.

History

(Ga. L. 1863-64, p. 132, §§ 1, 2; Code 1868, § 4498; Code 1873, § 4585; Code 1882, § 4585; Penal Code 1895, §§ 522, 523; Penal Code 1910, §§ 529, 530; Code 1933, §§ 18-211, 18-9907, 18-9908.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR. - Duty of carrier to heat car, 33 A.L.R. 168.