§ 46-9-210. Duty of Railroad Companies to Put on Sale and to Sell Tickets of Connecting Roads and to Check Baggage Over Such Roads

No railroad company having an office or agency within this state shall refuse to put on sale or refuse to sell any ticket of any other railroad company with which the same may be directly or indirectly connected, at the price or rate fixed by the commission, for passage over lines of such connecting roads, […]

§ 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

No railroad company operating or doing business wholly or partly within this state shall: 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; Refuse to receive such tickets for passage over its […]

§ 46-9-212. Switching Off and Delivering to Connecting Roads All Cars Consigned to Points Over or Beyond the Connecting Roads

All railroad companies in this state shall, at the terminus or at any intermediate point, be required to switch off and deliver to connecting roads, in the yard of such roads, all cars passing over their lines which cars contain goods or freights consigned, without rebate or deception, by any route, at the option of […]

§ 46-9-213. Discrimination by Railroad Companies in Freight-Transportation Rates Charged to Connecting Lines and Routes

No railroad company shall discriminate in its rates or tariffs for freights in favor of any line or route connected with it as against any other line or route; nor, when a part of its own line is sought to be run in connection with any other route, shall such company discriminate against such connecting […]

§ 46-9-214. Applicability of Code Sections 46-9-212 and 46-9-213 to Interstate Shipments and Consignments

Code Sections 46-9-212 and 46-9-213 shall not apply to shipments or consignments of freights from points beyond the limits of this state, except such as come by sea. History. Ga. L. 1874, p. 94, § 5; Code 1882, § 719u; Civil Code 1895, § 2216; Civil Code 1910, § 2659; Code 1933, § 93-412.

§ 46-9-215. Duty of Railroad Companies to Receive Freight Cars From Connecting Roads; Measure of Damages for Failure or Refusal to Receive Cars

All railroad companies in this state, at the terminus or at any intermediate point, shall receive from the connecting road all cars containing freight consigned to any point on the road to which the same is offered and shall transport the cars to their destination with reasonable diligence. Any failure or refusal to comply with […]

§ 46-9-216. Civil Penalty

For every violation of any of the provisions of Code Section 46-9-210 or 46-9-211, the railroad company shall be subject to a civil penalty of $1,000.00, which may be recovered in any superior or city court of the county in which such violation may occur. An action may be brought by the railroad company whose […]