---
title: O.C.G.A. § 46-9-136. Carriage of baggage.
collection: code
id: 46-9-136
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 46-9-136 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-9-136
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-9-136.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-9-136/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t46-(v34)-2025-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=48adb3c4_0#page=850
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-9.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-9-135.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/46-9-137.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia
heading_path: PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION / TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS GENERALLY / TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS / TRANSPORTATION BY CARRIERS GENERALLY
---

# O.C.G.A. § 46-9-136. Carriage of baggage.

(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.

## 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.