Duty of Railroad Companies to Provide Conductors and Other Employees With Baggage Checks; Duty of Conductors to Check Trunks and Baggage

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  2. Georgia Code
  3. Public Utilities and Public Transportation
  4. Transportation of Freight and Passengers Generally
  5. Transportation of Passengers
  6. Transportation by Railroad Companies
  7. Duty of Railroad Companies to Provide Conductors and Other Employees With Baggage Checks; Duty of Conductors to Check Trunks and Baggage

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  1. A railroad company shall have the duty of providing its conductors, agents, or employees with checks so as to check all trunks or separate baggage of passengers from station to station on its roads when required.
  2. It shall be the duty of the conductor of every passenger train to cause, upon application to him, all trunks and baggage to be checked from any station to any point of destination on its road or on any road running under the control of the company of which he is conductor.
  3. If any conductor fails or refuses, upon application, to comply with subsection (b) of this Code section, the railroad company employing that conductor shall be liable for a civil penalty of $50.00 for every such failure or refusal, to be recovered in a court of competent jurisdiction of that county where the demand for check was made.

(Laws 1847, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 398; Ga. L. 1857, p. 65, § 1; Code 1868, § 2046; Code 1873, § 2072; Code 1882, § 2072; Civil Code 1895, § 2281; Civil Code 1910, § 2732; Code 1933, § 18-221.)

Law reviews.

- For note discussing problems with venue in Georgia, and proposing statutory revisions to improve the resolution of venue questions, see 9 Ga. St. B.J. 254 (1972).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Baggage check is in legal effect bill of lading for baggage. Lewis v. Ocean S.S. Co., 12 Ga. App. 191, 76 S.E. 1073 (1913).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Extra or excess baggage, 2 A.L.R. 109.

Carrier's liability in respect to baggage checked in parcel room, 7 A.L.R. 1234; 27 A.L.R. 157; 37 A.L.R. 762.

Liability of carrier for baggage not accompanied by passenger, 23 A.L.R. 1446.

Discrimination by carrier between passengers as regards checking and handling of baggage, 59 A.L.R. 329.

Liability of motor carrier for loss of passenger's baggage or packages, 68 A.L.R.2d 1350.

Recovery of cumulative statutory penalties, 71 A.L.R.2d 986.

PART 3 ISSUANCE OR SALE OF TICKETS FOR PASSAGE ON VESSELS

46-9-170. Failure of person issuing or selling passenger tickets on board vessel to include country of registry on advertisement, circular, or other printed paper in regard to passage.

No person issuing, selling, or offering to sell any passenger ticket on board any vessel, including the owner or consignee of such vessel or his agents, servants, or employees, shall omit reference to the country of registry of such vessel from any advertisement, circular, circular letter, pamphlet, card, handbill, or other printed paper, or from any other notice, whether written or oral, in regard to such passage, ticket, or instrument of passage or voyage to which it entitles or purports to entitle its owner, purchaser, or holder or the line over which or the vessel for which such passage is sold or offered or as to his agency for such line or vessel. Such reference shall be no less prominently displayed than the balance of the material appearing on the printed paper or other notice.

(Ga. L. 1966, p. 26, § 1.)


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