Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-07
THE GETTY Bill
As Passed by the Senate.
The Getty bill provides that:

road company to issue, give or OF
fer to issue or give any free pass.
ticket or transportation in any form
to passengers for use upon its lines
within this state except to its en-
ployes and their families; the en-
ployes OF other railway companies
and their families, the employees of
express, telegraph and sleeping car
companies; representative from
each of the labor organizations of
employees of the railway companies:
railway employees incapacitated by
reason of disease or injury incurred
or received in the employ of the
company issuing such pass; eX-rail-
way employees who have been en-
gagged in the employ of a railway
company continuously for fiftSsn
years. also messengers az, clerks IN
the railway mail serviSs; news
agents while selling papers. books,
magazines, fruit, confectionery on
the train; members of the state
board of railroad commissioners, to-
gether with all other officers and
vi lllc Sdlu DOdTu anu Tic
attorney for the board Persons in
inred in wrecks and doctors, nurses
and necessary attendants in caring
for such injured persons to be used
only in visiting employees and their
| families or in accompanying en-
ployes to railroad hospitals; care
takers of destination or returning
| therefrom; INDECENT. stock, poultry
| or fruit in carload lots to be used
| exclusively in accompanying the
same to destitute or homeless per-
| sons whose dependent condition is
| certified to by mayor, poor com
| certified to by a mayor. poor COM
missioner or chairmen of the board
of county commissioners, and 1t
| shall be unlawful for any person,
other than the above excepted per-
sons to solicit, accept or use any
such free pass, ticket, or transporta-
ton.
| Section O.
| Any officer. agent or employee of
| any common carrier or railroad
company doing business within this
| state who issues, gives or delivers.
or offers to issue or give any free
pass, ticket or transportation to any
| person not authorized to accept and
use the same by this act shall be
| deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
| and punished by a fine of not more
than one hundred dollars, or by i'm
| prisonment in the county Jail not
more than thirty days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment; and
| any person not authorized by this
! act to accept and use such pass,
| ticket or transportation who solicits
for himself or others, or accepts or
uses the same. shall be deemed
| guilty of misdemeanor. and shall
be punished by fine OF not more
than one hundred dollars. or Ivy i'm
| prisonmeEt in the county Jail not
more than thirty days. or by both
| such fine and Imprisonment.
Section s.
| The word ''employe," as used in
| this act. shall be construed 10 in
clude all persons who devote their
principal time skill and enersy ~
| The service of the railroad company
| by which they are employed. and
who receive a stated and remunera-
tive salary therefor, and to exclude
all but one local attorney and ply
sician and surgeon in any one coun-
| ty, and all others who do not depend
| primarily upon such employment
for a livelihood
| Section A.
The word family, as used in this
act, shall be construed to include
the employee, his wife and minor
children, immediate members of his
household and dependent on him for
support, and to exclude all others.
Section s..
The terms of this act shall not be
construed as prohibiting the issu-
ance. acceptance or use of free
passes, tickets or transportation
during the prevalence of an cpl
demic, pestience or catastrophe
when necessary to afford relief or
to mitigate the evil effects of such
calamitous visitation.
Section c.
The provisions of this act shall
cursion rates. open to the public
| ISuuVtu ldIS W minister's
OF the gospel and those giving their
entire time to religious. benevolent
or charitable work. or to inmates of
soldiers homes, state or national. in
| Guiding those about to enter and
those returning home after their
| discharge.
Section T.
Any device, subterfuge or ar
| rangement by which any passenger
receiving a concession, advantage,
reduction or rebate not accorded to
all other passengers. exclusive of
the excepted classes hereinbefore
enumerated. shall be deemed a vio-
lation OF this act, and TIE officer.
agent or employee of the railroad
company granting, or offering to
grant or give. and the person solicit
ing or accepting the same. shall be
punished as provided in Section .
for a direct violation