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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

46-9-139. Selling or dealing in passenger tickets by person other than authorized agent of common carrier issuing such tickets.

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

  1. (a)

    It shall be unlawful for any person, other than the authorized agent of the common carrier issuing the same, to sell or otherwise deal in, or offer to sell, any passenger ticket which was issued and sold for less than the standard schedule rate under contract with the original purchaser and upon which ticket appears a statement, signed by the original purchaser, that the ticket is nontransferable and void in the hands of any person other than the original purchaser, provided that nothing in this Code section shall be construed as interfering with the right of the original purchaser of a transferable ticket to sell the same to a person who will in good faith personally use it to embark on a journey.#

  2. (b)

    Any person who violates this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.#

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

Ga. L. 1904, p. 102, §§ 1, 3; Civil Code 1910, § 2733; Penal Code 1910, § 636; Code 1933, §§ 18-215, 18-9911.

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

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