Sec. 43.
Any common carrier subject to the operation of this act, or whenever such common carrier is a corporation, any director or officer thereof, or any receiver, trustee, lessee, agent or person employed by such corporation, who alone or with any other corporation, company, person or party, shall willfully do or cause to be done, or shall willfully suffer or permit to be done any act, matter or thing in this act prohibited or declared to be unlawful, or who shall aid or abet therein, or who shall willfully omit or fail to do any act, matter or thing in this act required to be done, or shall cause or willfully suffer or permit any act, matter or thing so directed or required by this act to be done, not to be so done, or shall do or abet any such omission or failure, or shall be guilty of any infraction of this act, or shall aid or abet therein, or who shall willfully disobey or knowingly fail or neglect to obey any lawful order made under the provisions of this act by the Michigan railroad commission, or shall aid and abet any such disobedience or omission or failure shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in any court having jurisdiction of misdemeanors, if a penalty for such offense be not elsewhere provided in this act, be subject to a fine of not to exceed 500 dollars for each offense, in the discretion of the court, or if the convicted party be a natural person, he shall be liable to be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not to exceed 3 months, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
History: 1909, Act 300, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909 ;-- CL 1915, 8151 ;-- CL 1929, 11059 ;-- CL 1948, 462.43
Structure Michigan Compiled Laws
Act 300 of 1909 - Railroads (462.2 - 462.50)
Section 462.2a - Applicability of Act.
Section 462.3 - Definitions; Scope.
Section 462.4 - Common Carrier; Duty to Serve; Rates; Through Routes; Rates; Joint Rates.
Section 462.5 - Free Transportation; Penalty; Freight; Tickets.
Section 462.9 - Charges for Longer and Shorter Hauls; Governing Rate.
Section 462.11 - Special Contract Rates.
Section 462.12 - Freight Classification.
Section 462.15 - Continuous Carriage of Freight; Unlawful Acts.
Section 462.16 - Rate Discrimination Unlawful; Compensation for Incidental Service.
Section 462.17 - Traffic Discrimination Unlawful.
Section 462.18 - Receiving Rebate or Discrimination; Penalty.
Section 462.19 - Civil Liability.
Section 462.20 - Failure to Report Unlawful.
Section 462.21 - Fees; Disposition.
Section 462.24 - Orders of Commission; Rescission or Amendment.
Section 462.31 - Freight Tariffs; Filing.
Section 462.32 - Unreasonable Rate or Practice; Regulation by Commission.
Section 462.33 - Accidents; Report; Investigation, Expense.
Section 462.35 - Rules Regarding Maximum Speed Limits; Order; Effective Date of Speed Limit.
Section 462.36 - Equipment and Structures; Authority of Commission.
Section 462.37 - Equipment and Structures; Hearing Prior to Order.
Section 462.38 - Equipment and Structures; Refusal to Obey Order; Penalty.
Section 462.39 - Fences; Inspection, Construction.
Section 462.40 - Bill of Lading; Liability of Carrier; Statements of Charges.
Section 462.41 - Violations; Investigation; Enforcement of Act.
Section 462.42 - Investigation of Claims.
Section 462.43 - Liability for Violations; Penalty.
Section 462.44 - Police Powers Vested in Commission.
Section 462.45 - Substantial Compliance.
Section 462.46 - Rights of Action; Penalties Cumulative.
Section 462.47 - Mandamus; Injunction; Civil Remedies.
Section 462.48 - Record of Proceedings; Report to Governor, Contents, Publication.
Section 462.49 - Powers, Duties and Privileges Transferred to Commission; Saving Clause.
Section 462.50 - Legislation; Hearing on Changes; Recommendations.