Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 9. TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS GENERALLY · Article 4. TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS · Part 1. TRANSPORTATION BY CARRIERS GENERALLY

46-9-136. Carriage of baggage.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

(a)
A carrier of passengers may limit the value of the baggage which may be taken on board in proportion to the fare paid.#
(b)
A carrier of passengers shall be responsible for the value of lost baggage, regardless of whether an extra charge was demanded or paid for carriage of the baggage, provided that a carrier of passengers shall be responsible only for baggage placed in his custody; provided, further, that the liability of the carrier shall extend only to such articles as a traveler for business or pleasure would carry for his own use.#
(c)
A passenger shall not have the right to receive a reduction in fare by assuming custody of his own baggage.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Orig. Code 1863, §§ 2044, 2051; Code 1868, §§ 2045, 2048; Code 1873, §§ 2071, 2081; Code 1882, §§ 2071, 2081; Civil Code 1895, §§ 2280, 2288; Civil Code 1910, §§ 2731, 2742; Code 1933, §§ 18-220, 18-222.

Cross references

Penalty for unauthorized removal of baggage, freight, or other item transported by bus or stored in terminal, § 16-12-124.

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