Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 9. TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS GENERALLY · Article 6. CONNECTING CARRIERS GENERALLY

46-9-211. Duty of railroad companies to place their tickets for sale with connecting roads; duty to accept such tickets and to receive and transport baggage checked upon such tickets; security for tickets.

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

(a)
No railroad company operating or doing business wholly or partly within this state shall:#
1. (1)
  Refuse to put on sale with the agents of any other railroad company with which it may be connected, whether directly or indirectly, tickets for any point upon its lines of road;#
2. (2)
  Refuse to receive such tickets for passage over its lines; or#
3. (3)
  Refuse to receive and transport baggage which may be checked upon said tickets so sold.#
(b)
Any company so placing its tickets on sale may demand reasonable security to secure the price of such tickets so placed on sale, and may demand, from time to time, such renewals of deposits or other security as will protect it from any loss from the sale of such tickets.#

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. 1890-91, p. 155, § 2; Civil Code 1895, § 2300; Civil Code 1910, § 2754; Code 1933, § 18-502.

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