As used in this section and § 23-4-802, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Officers of this state, legislative, executive, or judicial” includes all officers elective, appointive, commissioned, or qualified; and (2) “Railroad” or “transportation company” shall be deemed and taken to mean all corporations, companies, or individuals owning or operating any railroad or transportation […]
(a) No railroad or transportation company organized or doing business in this state under any act of incorporation or general law of this state shall grant any free pass in the cars or other modes of conveyance over the line of any such railroad or transportation company, for any length of time or for any […]
(a) Members of the General Assembly within the State of Arkansas are exempted from the provisions of §§ 23-4-801 and 23-4-802. They are permitted to accept and it shall be the duty of all railroad companies doing business in the State of Arkansas to issue passes for free transportation to any such officers. In issuing […]
(a) Sheriffs are exempt from the provision of § 23-4-803 [repealed], and it shall not be unlawful for railroad companies to furnish free passes to them. (b) The Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Director of the Division of Career and Technical Education and the prosecuting attorneys and judges of the circuit courts […]
Railroad companies operating in the State of Arkansas are authorized and empowered to enter into contracts with newspaper and periodical publishers of the State of Arkansas for the issuance of transportation in exchange for advertising space in the publication. The transportation is to be restricted to intrastate passage.
(a) Nothing in the law shall prevent carriage, storage, or hauling free or at reduced rates for any city, county, or town government, nor the free carriage of destitute or indigent persons or ministers of the gospel, nor prevent the railroads from giving free transportation or transportation at reduced rates to the inmates of hospitals, […]
