§ 8-3-2-6 — Carload freight shipments; billings; records; freight cars requested and furnished

Each carrier subject to this chapter shall provide
and permanently keep at each billing station on its line in Indiana
where it handles carload shipments a substantially bound book, which
shall be in the form prescribed by the Indiana department of
transportation, suitable for permanently recording and preserving the
information required by this section and other information as the
department may prescribe concerning the subject matter of this chapter.
Any applicant for cars for use at a station shall record in the book the
date of application showing the number and kind of cars required,
when required, for what kind of loading, the point of destination, and
other information as the department prescribes. If it is not practical or
possible for the applicant to apply in person, then application may be
made in writing or by wire, and if made in writing or by wire, then one
(1) authentic copy shall be furnished the local agent for filing in the
local agent's office, which copy shall constitute a part of the lawful
record. Each carrier shall furnish to the applicant, in not less than
forty-eight (48) hours after 6 p.m. of the day of filing such application,
the cars so required, unless the cars are not so soon required, in which
case they shall be furnished when required. The carrier's agent at every
station shall record in the book the date the cars were furnished and
billed out, and other information as the department may prescribe in the
form for the record, and every record, or a properly authenticated copy,
shall be competent evidence in all the courts of this state and before the
department concerning the matters required to be recorded in the book.
A carrier shall not be required to furnish cars for shipment unless
applied for under this section. The distribution and delivery of coal cars
to coal mines on carriers' lines in this state are not controlled by this
section.
Formerly: Acts 1907, c.231, s.6. As amended by P.L.62-1984,
SEC.18; P.L.384-1987(ss), SEC.36; P.L.18-1990, SEC.44;
P.L.136-2018, SEC.83.