(a)
(1) All corporations doing an express business in Arkansas are required to establish and maintain an office in all cities of the first class in Arkansas, for the purpose of receiving shipments to be made by express and to receive and deliver all packages carried or sent by express to the cities.
(2) The express offices shall be open for business in the cities at all reasonable times and hours.
(b) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized and directed to define the limits in the cities in which express companies shall make free delivery of all express packages received by them.
(c)
(1) Any express company refusing to establish and maintain the offices or refusing to deliver free any express packages received by them within the limits fixed by the department shall be guilty of a misdemeanor for each failure or refusal to comply with the terms of this section or the orders of the department and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense.
(2) Each day that the company refuses to establish and maintain the offices and each refusal to deliver within the territory fixed by the department shall be a separate offense.