Code of Alabama
Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.
Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.

Section 37-2-3 - Duty of Commission to Supervise, Regulate, and Control Transportation Companies. - The Public Service Commission is charged with the duty of...

Section 37-2-4 - When Certificate of Convenience and Necessity Required. - No transportation company shall undertake the extension of its service...

Section 37-2-4.1 - Owners of Land Proposed to Be Acquired by Utility or Telephone Company to Be Given Notice of Filing of Application for Certificate of Convenience and Necessity. - Any utility or telephone company that is required to obtain...

Section 37-2-5 - When Permit to Abandon Service Required. - No transportation company subject to this chapter shall abandon all...

Section 37-2-6 - Application for Certificate or Permit - Notice and Hearing. - The application for and issuance of any such certificate of...

Section 37-2-7 - Application for Certificate or Permit - Grant or Refusal; Conditions; Revocation; Exception. - The commission, as it deems to the best interest of...

Section 37-2-8 - List of Tickets, Passes and Mileage Books to Be Filed With Commission. - Every transportation company shall, on or before September 1 in...

Section 37-2-9 - Repairs, Improvements or Changes in Property or Devices. - If, in the judgment of the Public Service Commission, repairs...

Section 37-2-10 - Filing and Posting of Tariffs. - Every transportation company shall print and cause to be filed...

Section 37-2-11 - Joint Rates. - Whenever any transportation company shall refuse or neglect to establish...

Section 37-2-12 - Changes in Rates. - No change shall be made in any rate, fare, charge...

Section 37-2-13 - Posted Rates to Be Legally Applicable Rates. - No transportation company shall charge or demand, or collect or...

Section 37-2-14 - Temporary or Emergency Rates. - (a) The commission, when deemed by it necessary to prevent...

Section 37-2-15 - Special Rates. - (a) The Public Service Commission, upon its own motion or...

Section 37-2-16 - Penalty for Discrimination. - (a) If any transportation company subject to the provisions of...

Section 37-2-17 - Penalty for Excessive Rates. - (a) If any transportation company doing business in this state...

Section 37-2-18 - Treble Damages. - In addition to the penalties and forfeitures provided in this...

Section 37-2-19 - Reparation. - (a) Where complaint has been made to the commission concerning...

Section 37-2-20 - Concentration and Transit Privileges and Rates. - Concentration and transit privileges and rates may be permitted or,...

Section 37-2-21 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - When Issued; Contents; Receipt for Cotton in Bales; Common-Law Liability Not Affected. - (a) Every transportation company receiving property for transportation, originating and...

Section 37-2-22 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Not Given Until Property Delivered to Carrier; Duplicates. - A transportation company engaged in the business of carriage, or...

Section 37-2-23 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Liability for False or Second Bill of Lading or Receipt or for Failure to Endorse Partial Delivery. - If any transportation company, not having received things or property...

Section 37-2-24 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Delivery to Cotton Compress. - A delivery of cotton at or to a compress for...

Section 37-2-25 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Unauthorized Sale or Transfer of Property Prohibited. - A transportation company or other person engaged in the business...

Section 37-2-26 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Charges to Be Settled According to Stipulated Rate. - All transportation companies doing business in this state shall settle...

Section 37-2-27 - Notice to Consignees of Arrival of Freight. - A transportation company, if the place of destination of freight...

Section 37-2-30 - Sale of Unclaimed Freight - Insurance; Application of Proceeds; Record; Disposition of Surplus. - (a) The transportation company may insure the freight, at the...

Section 37-2-29 - Sale of Unclaimed Freight - Perishable or Live Freight. - Where such unclaimed freight is perishable or live, such transportation...

Section 37-2-28 - Sale of Unclaimed Freight - Nonperishable Freight. - (a) Any transportation company having an office or place of...

Section 37-2-31 - Duty to Receive or Transport Freight; Liability for Failure or Delay. - Every transportation company subject to the provisions of this chapter,...

Section 37-2-32 - Partial Delivery of Consignment. - Whenever any freight shall be received by any transportation company...

Section 37-2-33 - Overcharges. - (a) In case of any overcharge on published or lawful...

Section 37-2-34 - Joint Actions Against Connecting Carriers. - When goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property are shipped...

Section 37-2-35 - Personal Baggage of Passengers - Free Transportation Within Certain Weight Limits. - Every transportation company in this state, which shall engage in...

Section 37-2-36 - Personal Baggage of Passengers - Charge for Excess Baggage. - Every transportation company in this state shall charge passengers, on...

Section 37-2-37 - Personal Baggage of Passengers - Baggage, etc., of Commercial Travelers. - The baggage, samples, goods, wares, appliances, and catalogues of commercial...

Section 37-2-38 - Personal Baggage of Passengers - Maximum Size and Weight Limits; Exceptions. - No transportation company shall be required to transport any piece...

Section 37-2-39 - Personal Baggage of Passengers - Storage Charges for Baggage Left in Baggage Rooms or Station Houses. - All passengers of whatever character having baggage transported by companies...

Section 37-2-40 - Free Transportation or Reduced Rates. - Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the...

Section 37-2-41 - Inspection and Supervision Fees; Election. - (a) Each transportation company doing business in this state and...

Section 37-2-42 - Refund of Excessive Charges Upon Submission of Expense Bill or Receipt. - Any person, firm or corporation may submit to the commission,...

Section 37-2-43 - Soliciting Claims Against Transportation Companies Forbidden. - No agent, officer or attorney of any traffic association or...

Section 37-2-44 - Rights of Action Not Waived; Penalties Cumulative. - This chapter shall not release or waive any right of...

Section 37-2-45 - Recovery of Penalties or Forfeitures. - A civil action to recover the forfeitures provided for in...

Section 37-2-46 - Each Violation Constitutes Separate Offense; Act of Employee Act of Company. - Every violation of the provisions of this chapter, or of...

Division 2 - Damages for Loss, Injury,or Delay in Delivery.

Section 37-2-60 - Measure of Damages for Loss, Injury, or Delay in Delivery, Etc. - In all cases of loss, destruction, injury to, delay in...

Section 37-2-61 - Claim for Damages. - (a) When any property, chattels, or goods have been received...

Section 37-2-62 - Action for Damages. - (a) If the value of such goods, property or chattels...

Division 3 - Regulations Affecting Public Safety.

Section 37-2-80 - Railroad Signs. - Every railroad company must erect, at all points where its...

Section 37-2-81 - Duty of Locomotive Engineer to Ring Bell or Blow Horn, Etc. - The engineer or other person operating a locomotive on any...

Section 37-2-82 - Stopping Trains at Crossings; Right-of-Way. - When the tracks of two railroads cross each other at...

Section 37-2-83 - Liability of Railroad for Failure to Comply With Sections 37-2-80 Through 37-2-82; Burden of Proof. - A railroad company is liable for all damages done to...

Section 37-2-84 - Abandonment and Discontinuance of Grade Crossings. - (a) The Department of Transportation is given authority and power...

Section 37-2-85 - Examination and Licensing of Railroad Employees. - (a) It shall be the duty of every person or...

Section 37-2-86 - Employment of Unlicensed Persons. - Any person or corporation operating a railroad in this state...

Section 37-2-86.1 - Conductor and Engineer's Qualification Permit Contents; Display. - Every railroad conductor and engineer in this state shall carry...

Section 37-2-87 - Instruction of Engineers and Conductors. - The chief superintendent of every railroad shall instruct the engineers...

Section 37-2-88 - Railroad Drawbridges. - (a) All steamboats approaching, with the intention of passing through,...

Section 37-2-89 - Railroad Fences; Liability for Injury to Stock. - (a) Whenever the Public Service Commission deems it necessary that...

Section 37-2-90 - Locomotive Headlights. - All companies, corporations, lessees, owners, operators, or receivers of any...

Section 37-2-91 - Railroad Accident Reports. - Every person, corporation, company or association operating a railroad shall...

Division 4 - Regulations for Convenience of Passengers.

Section 37-2-110 - Duty of Railroad to Provide Accommodations Generally. - Every railroad company in this state, on the order of...

Section 37-2-111 - Union Stations. - Any two or more railroads which enter any city or...

Section 37-2-112 - Orders of Commission - Notice; Time for Compliance. - Whenever the Public Service Commission shall make an order requiring...

Section 37-2-113 - Orders of Commission - Remedy for Noncompliance. - The Public Service Commission must notify the district attorney of...

Section 37-2-114 - Failure of Trains to Stop at Advertised Stations. - Railroad trains for the carriage of passengers must stop at...

Section 37-2-116 - Action for Damages Not Barred. - Nothing in this division shall be so construed as to...

Division 5 - Commercial Regulations and Regulations for Convenience of Shippers.

Section 37-2-130 - Duty of Railroad to Maintain Depots, Etc. - All railroads shall on the order of the Public Service...

Section 37-2-131 - Connection of Tracks and Interchange of Traffic - Generally. - Railroads may be constructed so as to cross or connect...

Section 37-2-132 - Connection of Tracks and Interchange of Traffic - Railroads Running to or Through Same Town or City. - When two or more railroad companies have roads running to...

Section 37-2-133 - Connection of Tracks and Interchange of Traffic - Switch Connections. - Every railroad subject to the provisions of this division shall...

Section 37-2-134 - Connection of Tracks and Interchange of Traffic - Duty to Provide Equal and Reasonable Facilities. - All railroad companies subject to the provisions of this division...

Section 37-2-135 - Connection of Tracks and Interchange of Traffic - Duty to Deliver Freight or Cars Without Unreasonable Delay or Discrimination; Precedence Given Livestock and Perishable Freight. - All railroads shall afford all reasonable and proper facilities for...

Section 37-2-136 - Spur Tracks and Sidetracks. - Every railroad is required to construct and maintain spur tracks...

Section 37-2-137 - Cattle Guards. - Every person or corporation operating a railroad must put cattle...

Division 6 - Railway Policemen.

Section 37-2-150 - Appointment. - (a) Any company or corporation operating a railway may apply...

Section 37-2-151 - Oath; Bond. - Every policeman so appointed shall, before entering upon the duties...

Section 37-2-152 - Badge. - Such railway policemen shall, when on duty, severally wear a...

Section 37-2-153 - Powers. - (a) A railroad policeman may exercise the same powers of...

Section 37-2-154 - Compensation. - The compensation of such policemen shall be paid by the...

Section 37-2-155 - Liability of Corporation for Acts of Policemen. - The corporation or company which applied for the appointment of...

Section 37-2-156 - Filing of Notice That Services No Longer Required. - Whenever any such corporation or company shall no longer require...

Section 37-2-157 - Removal by Governor. - The Governor may, at any time, remove any such policeman...

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Code of Alabama Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation. Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.

Code of Alabama
Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.
Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.