O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-9-53 (2019)

Discrimination by railroad companies in applying freight-storage charges

✓ 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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In applying freight-storage charges fixed by the commission, no railroad company shall discriminate between persons, either directly or indirectly, by means of rebate or any other device.

History

(Ga. L. 1890-91, p. 149, § 3; Civil Code 1895, § 2208; Civil Code 1910, § 2651; Code 1933, § 93-403.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Limitation on authority of General Assembly regarding regulation

of public utility rates, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. VI, Para. V.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Sipple v. Seaboard Air-Line Ry., 28 Ga. App. 16, 110 S.E. 39 (1921); Georgia

Pub. Serv. Comm’n v. Atlanta Gas Light Co., 205 Ga. 863, 55 S.E.2d 618 (1949).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 13 Am. Jur. 2d, Carriers, § 169. C.J.S. - 13 C.J.S., Carriers, §§ 195, 370. ALR. - Franchise provisions for free or reduced rates of public service corporations as within constitutional or statutory provision prohibiting discrimination, 10 ALR 504; 15 ALR 1200.

Discrimination by public utility company in respect of extension of credit, 12 ALR 964. Liability of carrier for overcharging passenger, 56 ALR 771.