§ 23-4-707 — Rate schedules

(a) All persons or corporations engaged in the transportation of passengers or property shall and are required to keep posted up at every depot under the control of or in use by those persons or corporations, in a conspicuous place therein, plainly and legibly printed schedules which shall state: (1) The different kinds and classes of property to be carried; (2) The different places between which property shall be carried; and (3) The rate of freight or express charges for carriage between such places and for all services connected with the transportation of such property from the time of its receipt until it is delivered or forwarded. (b) (1) The schedules shall be posted for at least five (5) days before the schedule shall go into effect, and the schedule shall remain in force until another schedule shall, as aforesaid, be posted. (2) However, at such points where freight or express are subject to competition by water routes not controlled by this act nor complying with its provisions, the schedule provided for in this section may be posted and go into immediate effect. (c) Every person or corporation engaged in the transportation of passengers or property shall receive, load, unload, transport, store, and deliver to the consignee of the property any and all of it offered for shipment, whether as freight or express matter, and these services shall be done at and for charges not greater than those specified in the schedule as may at that time be in force. The person or corporation shall, on demand, issue to shippers duplicate freight or express receipts which shall state the class of freight shipped, the weight, and the charges.

Legislative History

Acts 1899, No. 53, § 10, p. 82; C. & M. Dig., § 877; Pope's Dig., § 1081; A.S.A. 1947, § 73-1514.