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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 2. TRANSPORTATION BY RAILROAD COMPANIES

46-9-150. Duty of railroad companies to furnish passengers with drinking water and lights.

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

  1. (a)

    Railroad companies shall keep in each passenger car or in any car in which passengers are transported an adequate supply of good, pure drinking water at all hours during the day and night. Any railroad company which violates this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.#

  2. (b)

    Any conductor or agent of a railroad who, after being requested by a passenger to furnish a sufficient supply of water to the passenger in each car, or a light at night, passes any depot or station without so doing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be prosecuted in any county through which the railroad of which he is agent or conductor runs.#

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. 1863-64, p. 132, §§ 1, 2; Code 1868, § 4498; Code 1873, § 4585; Code 1882, § 4585; Penal Code 1895, §§ 522, 523; Penal Code 1910, §§ 529, 530; Code 1933, §§ 18-211, 18-9907, 18-9908.

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

Text read from t46-(v34)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V34, 2025 edition, pages 854 to 855; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.