Any common carrier of freight within the limits of this state or, if such common carrier is a corporation, any officer, agent, or employee thereof, who, by means of false billing, false classification, false weighing, false report of weight, or by any other device or means, knowingly and willfully assists or permits any person to obtain transportation for property from and to points within the limits of this state at less than the regular rates then established and in force on the line of transportation of such common carrier shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
History. Ga. L. 1889, p. 134, § 1; Penal Code 1895, § 682; Penal Code 1910, § 731; Code 1933, § 18-9916.
Structure Georgia Code
Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation
Chapter 9 - Transportation of Freight and Passengers Generally
Article 3 - Transportation and Storage of Freight and Livestock
Part 1 - Duties and Liabilities of Carriers Generally
§ 46-9-40. Duty of Common Carriers to Receive Goods
§ 46-9-42. Effect of Strike by Carrier’s Employees on Carrier’s Duty to Transport Goods
§ 46-9-43. Measure of Damages for Delay in Delivery of Goods by Carrier
§ 46-9-44. Estoppel of Carrier to Dispute Title to Goods Delivered to Him for Shipment
§ 46-9-45. Commencement and Termination of Carrier’s Responsibility for Goods
§ 46-9-46. Effect of Delivery to Consignee at Intermediate Point
§ 46-9-47. Fraud on Carrier as to Nature and Value of Goods
§ 46-9-50. Weighing of Railroad Cars by Certified Public Weighers; Manner of Weighing Cars
§ 46-9-52. Unjust Discrimination in Freight-Transportation Rates by Common Carriers Generally
§ 46-9-53. Discrimination by Railroad Companies in Applying Freight-Storage Charges
§ 46-9-54. Making and Retaining Freight-Storage Charges in Accordance With Rates Fixed by Commission
§ 46-9-56. False Billing, False Weighing, or False Report of Weight by Common Carriers