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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 23-10-101. Definition - As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,...
§ 23-10-102. Application of Acts 1887, No. 81 — Different railroad lines operated by same company - Whenever any railroad corporation, as lessee or otherwise, operates any...
§ 23-10-103. Railroads — Civil penalties for violations of §§ 23-4-603, 23-4-707, 23-4-710, 23-4-711, 23-4-713, and 23-10-104 — 23-10-108 — Actions to recover penalties - (a) Any railroad corporation that violates §§ 23-4-603, 23-4-707, 23-4-710,...
§ 23-10-104. Railroads — Preferences as to services prohibited - No railroad or any lessee, manager, or employee thereof shall...
§ 23-10-105. Railroads — Discrimination in charges or facilities prohibited - (a) All individuals, associations, and corporations shall have equal rights...
§ 23-10-106. Transportation companies — Discrimination in charges or facilities prohibited - No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be...
§ 23-10-107. Railroads — Free transportation for officers, agents, etc - Nothing contained in this act shall make unlawful the issuance...
§ 23-10-108. Railroads — Officers, agents, or employees not to be personally interested in contracts - (a) No president, director, officer, agent, or employee of any...
§ 23-10-109. Agreements for carrier to pay charge for use of additional mode of transportation void - (a) Any part of any agreement, arrangement, or other device...
§ 23-10-110. Railroads — Actions under Acts 1887, No. 81 — Attendance and testimony of officers, agents, etc - (a) In any action brought under this act, the court...
Subchapter 2 - Passengers
§ 23-10-209. Baggage generally - (a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise...
§ 23-10-210. Bicycles transported as baggage - (a) Bicycles are declared to be baggage and shall be...
§ 23-10-211. Handling of baggage - (a) (1) All railroad and express companies in this state...
§ 23-10-212. Baggage — Duration of carriers' liability - All persons or corporations engaged in the business of common...
§ 23-10-213. Special passenger excursion train — Definitions - (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the...
Subchapter 3 - Freight — Carriers Generally
§ 23-10-301. Express and freight rules prescribed by department - The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall make rules to be...
§ 23-10-302. Express offices and delivery — Penalties - (a) (1) All corporations doing an express business in Arkansas...
§ 23-10-303. Goods damaged in transit — Liability generally - (a) Whenever any property is received by a common carrier...
§ 23-10-304. Goods damaged in intrastate transit - (a) All railway companies, their assignees or lessees, and all...
§ 23-10-305. Goods damaged in transit — Express companies - (a) All express companies organized or doing business under the...
§ 23-10-306. Unclaimed goods - (a) When any goods, merchandise, or other property has been...
Subchapter 4 - Freight — Railroads
§ 23-10-401. Definition for §§ 23-10-432 — 23-10-437 and 23-12-605 - As used in §§ 23-10-432 — 23-10-437 and 23-12-605, unless...
§ 23-10-402. Definition for §§ 23-10-403, 23-10-405, 23-10-406, and 23-10-409 — 23-10-431 - As used in §§ 23-10-403, 23-10-405, 23-10-406, and 23-10-409 —...
§ 23-10-403. Application of §§ 23-10-402, 23-10-405, 23-10-406, 23-10-409 — 23-10-431 - Sections 23-10-402, 23-10-405, 23-10-406, and 23-10-409 — 23-10-431 shall not...
§ 23-10-404. Remedies in §§ 23-10-438 — 23-10-440 cumulative - The remedies given by §§ 23-10-438 — 23-10-440 shall be...
§ 23-10-405. Remedies in §§ 23-10-406, 23-10-409 — 23-10-431 cumulative - The remedies given by §§ 23-10-406 and 23-10-409 — 23-10-431...
§ 23-10-406. Penalties for violations of §§ 23-10-402, 23-10-403, 23-10-405, and 23-10-409 — 23-10-431, or rules of department — Actions to recover - (a) If any person or corporation operating a railroad in...
§ 23-10-407. Reasonable rules for transportation of freight permitted - (a) It shall be lawful for railroads to prescribe rules...
§ 23-10-408. Contracts or rules abridging liability of railroad void - (a) It shall be unlawful for any railroad or any...
§ 23-10-409. Free or reduced rate transportation permitted - Nothing in this section and §§ 23-10-402, 23-10-403, 23-10-405, 23-10-406,...
§ 23-10-410. Discrimination as to freight prohibited — Pooling, rebates, etc., prohibited - (a) It shall be unlawful for any railroad company or...
§ 23-10-411. Forwarding freight over connecting lines — Preferences prohibited — Exceptions - (a) Every person, company, or corporation operating any railroad in...
§ 23-10-412. Demurrage charges generally - All carload freight or freight carried at carload rates and...
§ 23-10-413. Duty to furnish cars to shipper - (a) (1) When a shipper makes a written application to...
§ 23-10-414. Duty to furnish cars — Interstate railroads - Interstate railroads shall furnish cars upon application for interstate shipments...
§ 23-10-415. Duty to exchange and return cars - (a) (1) It shall be the duty of every railroad...
§ 23-10-416. Loading of cars generally - (a) (1) A shipper on whose order cars have been...
§ 23-10-417. Cars detained for fault of shipper — Demurrage charges - (a) (1) Cars detained or held at the point of...
§ 23-10-418. Receipt and transport of freight — Time restraints - (a) When freight in carloads or less is tendered to...
§ 23-10-419. Delivery of freight - (a) Railroad companies shall deliver freight at their depots or...
§ 23-10-420. Notice to consignee of arrival of freight — Penalty for failure to give - (a) (1) Within twenty-four (24) hours after the arrival of...
§ 23-10-421. Notice of arrival of freight — Free time - (a) (1) Legal notice as referred to in this section...
§ 23-10-422. Shipment to consignor's order — Notice - When consignors ship goods consigned to order, but express in...
§ 23-10-423. Package freight unloaded by railroad — Storage charges - (a) All package freight unloaded by railroad companies in their...
§ 23-10-424. Unloading cars — Free time — Demurrage charges — Extension of free time - (a) (1) Loaded cars containing fertilizers, hay, coal, coke, brick,...
§ 23-10-425. Loading or unloading — Additional free time when weather inclement - Whenever the weather, during the period of free time, is...
§ 23-10-426. Loading or unloading — Extension of time when consignee or consignor at distance from depot - A consignee or a consignor five (5) miles or more...
§ 23-10-427. Storage of freight after failure to unload — Charges - Incoming carload freight coming under the provisions of §§ 23-10-425...
§ 23-10-428. Refusal of freight — Notice to consignor — Liability for demurrage - (a) If a consignee refuses to accept freight tendered in...
§ 23-10-429. Employee demanding or receiving extra pay for furnishing car to shipper — Penalty - (a) Any railroad employee who demands or receives from any...
§ 23-10-430. Recovery of demurrage, forfeitures, and charges - All forfeitures, charges, and demurrage that accrue to either shipper...
§ 23-10-431. Actions for damages for violations of §§ 23-10-402, 23-10-403, 23-10-405, 23-10-406, and 23-10-409 — 23-10-431 — Limitation - (a) In all actions at law against any railroad company,...
§ 23-10-432. Duty to furnish cars — Reasonable time for requesting cars - It shall be deemed, prima facie, a reasonable time within...
§ 23-10-433. Exceptions to duty to furnish or exchange cars - (a) In no event shall any railroad company be required...
§ 23-10-434. Liability for failure to furnish or exchange cars — Exceptions - (a) Every railroad company that, in violation of any of...
§ 23-10-435. Liability for cars of another railroad - (a) Every railroad company using cars of another railroad company,...
§ 23-10-436. Penalty for gross negligence in not furnishing or exchanging cars — Fee of prosecuting attorney - (a) (1) Every railroad company which willfully, by its own...
§ 23-10-437. Intrastate freight — Rules - (a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized and empowered,...
§ 23-10-438. Perishable freight — Duty to furnish cars — Exceptions — Penalty - (a) (1) When a shipper makes a written application to...
§ 23-10-439. Perishable freight — Time for loading — Demurrage charges - (a) When cars have been delivered to the shipper as...
§ 23-10-440. Forwarding perishable freight — Penalty for failure - (a) (1) Whenever freight of a character similar to that...
§ 23-10-441. Shipper's pass on shipments of livestock or poultry - (a) Whenever any railroad company or corporation doing business within...
§ 23-10-442. Shipments of sheep and hogs - (a) All railroad companies, private companies, or individuals owning or...
§ 23-10-443. Shipments of grain - (a) All persons and corporations owning or operating a railroad...
§ 23-10-444. Shipments of coal, corn, or cottonseed — Duty to weigh and furnish correct weight to consignee — Penalty - (a) All railroads operating in this state are required to...
§ 23-10-445. Shipments of coal — Duty to weigh loaded cars prior to shipment and issue certificate of weight — Penalty - (a) At all stations at which scales are required to...