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2018 Georgia Code 46-9-216 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)

O.C.G.A. 46-9-216 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 46-9-216

TITLE 46 PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Section 9. Transportation of Freight and Passengers Generally, 46-9-1 through 46-9-332.

ARTICLE 6 CONNECTING CARRIERS GENERALLY

46-9-216. Civil penalty.

For every violation of any of the provisions of Code Section 46-9-210 or 46-9-211, the railroad company shall be subject to a civil penalty of $1,000.00, which may be recovered in any superior or city court of the county in which such violation may occur. An action may be brought by the railroad company whose road may be discriminated against or by the person offering to buy a ticket over such road. The penalty provided for in this Code section may be recovered by each of these parties; and recovery by one shall not be a bar to recovery by the other.

(Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 155, § 3; Civil Code 1895, § 2301; Civil Code 1910, § 2755; Code 1933, § 18-503.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

When liability arises.

- No liability for the penalty provided by former Civil Code 1895, § 2301 (see O.C.G.A. § 46-9-216) attached to a refusal to sell the tickets of a connecting railroad company where, for any reason, it did not desire its tickets sold by other than its own agents, or where it had not expressed a desire that tickets to stations on its line shall be sold by another connecting therewith. Wimberly v. Georgia, S. & F. Ry., 5 Ga. App. 263, 63 S.E. 29 (1908).

Cited in Stephens v. Central of Ga. Ry., 138 Ga. 625, 75 S.E. 1041 (1912).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Recovery of cumulative statutory penalties, 71 A.L.R.2d 986.

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