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§ 23-10-209. Baggage generally

(a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, “baggage” includes whatever a passenger upon any carrier of passengers takes with him or her, for personal use and convenience, with reference to the immediate necessities or of the journey, and shall also include such samples of goods, wares, and merchandise as may be […]

§ 23-10-210. Bicycles transported as baggage

(a) Bicycles are declared to be baggage and shall be checked and transported as baggage for passengers by all railway companies operating in this state and be subject to the same charges and liabilities as other baggage. However, no passenger shall be required to crate, cover, or otherwise protect any such bicycle, and railway companies […]

§ 23-10-211. Handling of baggage

(a) (1) All railroad and express companies in this state are required to provide each and every one of its trains with one (1) or more stage-planks, of not less than eight feet (8′) in length and three feet (3′) in width, or trucks to be used in unloading trunks and baggage from their trains […]

§ 23-10-212. Baggage — Duration of carriers’ liability

All persons or corporations engaged in the business of common carrier shall be responsible as common carrier for all baggage or goods checked by them as baggage for forty-eight (48) hours after the baggage or goods checked as baggage have reached their destinations.

§ 23-10-213. Special passenger excursion train — Definitions

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the liability of a nonprofit sponsor of a special passenger excursion train, the owner or operator of a special passenger excursion train, and the railroad or rail authority over whose tracks the special passenger excursion train is operated, for all claims, whether for compensatory damages or […]