§ 37-8-27 — Free Passes, Rebates or Discounts, Etc. - Penalties for Violations

Any common carrier, whether a corporation, association, partnership or person, engaged in the business of a common carrier of passengers in this state, or the agent, officer, servant or employee of such, who shall give, procure for or deliver to any person or accept any free passes, tickets or free transportation for any person, or give, make or allow any rebate, discount or reduction from such rates as are offered or given to the public at large, except as provided in Section 37-8-28; and any person other than the persons excepted in Section 37-8-28, who accepts or uses any such free ticket, free passes or free transportation, rebate, discount or reduction shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be indicted as such corporation, partnership or person for each offense and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $2,000.00, or be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months, one or both, at the discretion of the jury trying the case.

Legislative History

(Code 1907, §7691; Code 1923, §5372; Code 1940, T. 48, §422.)