Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-07-29
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AN ACT 20 Amend Section aqto Of the Genersl
Statutes OF the State OF Florida as 10 the Allow
aree OF Free or Reduced Rates OF Transports
ton by Common Carriers.
Be q Enacted BY the Legislature Of the State Al
Florida:
Section .. That Section asIS Of the General
Statutes of the State OF Florida be- and the sane
Is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
10I9-When FIRES or Reduced Rates Are Al
lowed.-Nothing IN this Chapter contained shall
prevent any common carrier subject thereto from
granting free passage or free tickets TO its own
officers and own employees Including pensioners,
disabled employees. and persons travelling 10 ac.
cept or leave the employment Of such common
carrierl and their immediate families dependent
and TO its salaried attorney at law. to persons
employed on sleeping. parlor. dining or express
cars while on duty only and 20 baggage soliciting
agents, and newsboys while on duty only: 20 min
isters OF religion who are engaged in general ms
sion work, travelling secretaries Of Railroad Young
Mems Christian Associations Confederate Sol
diers going to the State Home for Confederate
Soldiers TO become inmates thereof. or returning
alter discharge To INDECENT. homeless destitute
persons when transported by charitable societies.
and TO the necessary agents employed IN such
transportation, TO persons exclusively engaged IN
charitable or eleemosynary work for the purposes
OF their work: and TO persons injured in wrecks,
and the physicians, surgeons, nurses relatives OF
friends of such injured persons, 20 and from the
place OF the wreck: or from carrying free passen:
gers With the object of providing relief in cases Of
general epidemic. pestilence or other calamitOus
HlhltAAlOfs IN TINS state. or from the cafrt1ke,
storage or handling Of property free or az reduced
rates for charitable purposes or 10 and from iAirs
and expositions for exhibit thereat, or from giving
reduced rates to ministers of religion. or from
exchanging free passes with other common car.
ners for officers and employees and their immedi-
alte family dependent upon them, and for theif
physicians and surgeons, and salaried attorney
Aforesaid or from giving free passage reduced
rates 20 persons in charge OF live stock shippcd
IRON point of shipment to destination and returr
Tor from giving free passes reduced transpoftar
ton 10 the Sheriff OF the State without discnmina-
tom. or from issuing mileage. excursion or com
mutation, or round trip passenger tickets, or IRON
issuing second class tickets az lower rate OF lay
than for hrs class tickets for the holders OF Whea
second class tickets only second class acoomno-
dation shall bc allowed
No free or reduced transportation shall be Az,
iul except specified m this Section. and ~
TRANSPORTATION other than free must be paid tofm
cash
ANY individual violating the provisions OF nm
Section. either by issuing a free pass. or giving
reduced rate unlawtully, or by receiving and ualS
or taking advantage Of the same, shall be peE
ishcd by imprisonment not exceeding SIX rnonln1
or by tine not exceeding one thousand dolars's ~.
any common carrier violating THIS Section shah y
subject 90 a PENALTY 90 be fixed and IMPOSED ~
the R4sruai Commissioner, and enforced as Nv
vitcl iN this chapter
Approved June =, 1909