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

O.C.G.A. § 46-9-211 (2019)

Duty of railroad companies to place their tickets for sale with connecting roads; duty to accept such tickets and to receive and transport baggage checked upon such tickets; security for tickets

✓ 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 railroad company operating or doing business wholly or partly within this state shall:

(1) Refuse to put on sale with the agents of any other railroad company with which it may be connected, whether directly or indirectly, tickets for any point upon its lines of road;

(2) Refuse to receive such tickets for passage over its lines; or

(3) Refuse to receive and transport baggage which may be checked upon said tickets so sold.

(b) Any company so placing its tickets on sale may demand reasonable security to secure the price of such tickets so placed on sale, and may demand, from time to time, such renewals of deposits or other security as will protect it from any loss from the sale of such tickets.

History

(Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 155, § 2; Civil Code 1895, § 2300; Civil Code 1910, § 2754; Code 1933, § 18-502.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR. - Right of railroad to discriminate in respect of switching charges, 2 A.L.R. 585.