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AL Code § 37-2-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-13 - Posted Rates to Be Legally Applicable Rates.

Section 37-2-13Posted rates to be legally applicable rates. No transportation company shall charge or demand, or collect or receive, a greater or less or different compensation for the transportation of passengers or property, or for any service in connection therewith, than the rates, fares or charges specified in the tariffs or schedules of rates in effect at the time, except as provided by law or the Public Service Commission, and the rates, fares and charges duly filed and posted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall be the legally applicable rates, fares and charges, but the commission may prescribe such changes in the form in which such tariffs or schedules of rates shall be issued by transportation companies as may be found expedient. (Code 1896, §5528; Code 1907, §5527; Acts 1909, No. 201, p. 210; Code 1923, §§10023, 10025; Code 1940, T. 48, §114.)
AL Code § 37-2-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-14 - Temporary or Emergency Rates.

Section 37-2-14Temporary or emergency rates. (a) The commission, when deemed by it necessary to prevent injury to business, or in the interest of the people of this state, in consequence of any interstate rate wars, or inequality of interstate rates, or in case of any other emergency, to be judged by the commission, may temporarily alter, amend, or suspend, except as otherwise provided by law, any existing passenger rates, freight rates, schedules, and orders, on any railroad or part of railroad in this state, and such rates made by the commission shall apply on one or more of the railroads of this state, or any portion thereof, as may be directed by the commission, and shall take effect at such time and remain in force for such length of time as may be prescribed by the commission. (b) When circumstances require a reduction in any rate or rates on less than statutory notice in order to permit an emergency to be met, the Public Service Commission, or, if the commission is not in session, the secretary of the commission, may, upon the written application of a transportation company, and for good reason shown, authorize such transportation company to make such rate or rates effective on less than statutory notice, provided a copy of the publication containing such rate or rates is filed with the commission. When such authority is granted by the secretary, the rate or rates so authorized shall be temporary and shall continue effective only until the next regular meeting of the commission, which may approve, revoke or modify the same. (Code 1907, §5721; Acts 1920, No. 42, p. 92; Code 1923, §§9670, 9717; Code 1940, T. 48, §§115, 116.)
AL Code § 37-2-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-15 - Special Rates.

Section 37-2-15Special rates. (a) The Public Service Commission, upon its own motion or upon the written application of any transportation company, and under any rules which it may prescribe, may permit, from time to time, such transportation company to establish any special rate or rates for the transportation of specific commodities in carloads from specified points or within specified zones or distances to the plants or points of destination where are located the plants of any person, firm or corporation who is now, or may hereafter be, engaged in any industrial or agricultural enterprise in this state, for the purpose of encouraging the establishment or aiding in the development or continued and successful operation of such industrial or agricultural enterprise; and any special rate or rates so established for any particular industrial or agricultural enterprise shall apply and be given all persons, firms and corporations engaged in the same enterprise within said zone or distance. (b) Said special rates shall first be approved by the commission and be published as it may direct, and a full, true and correct statement in writing of such special rate or rates shall, in each instance, be first filed with said commission, together with a sworn copy of any special contract made with the shipper with respect to such special rates, before the same shall go into effect; and the said commission may at any time revoke such permission and any special rate or rates established thereunder. Any rate or rates so established after compliance with the provisions hereinabove prescribed shall be the lawful rates for the service performed and shall not be construed to be an unjust or unlawful discrimination. (Acts 1920, No. 42, p. 92; Code 1923, §§9715, 9716; Code 1940, T. 48, §§117, 118.)
AL Code § 37-2-16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-16 - Penalty for Discrimination.

Section 37-2-16Penalty for discrimination. (a) If any transportation company subject to the provisions of this chapter, or any agent or officer thereof, shall, directly or indirectly, or by special rate, rebate, drawback or other consideration, or by means of false billing, false classification, false weighing, false report of weights or by any device whatsoever, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person, firm, company or corporation a greater or less compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered by it for the transportation of persons or property, or for any service in connection therewith, than that prescribed in the published tariffs, or than it charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person, firm, company or corporation for a like service, such transportation company so doing shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and declared unlawful, and shall forfeit to the State of Alabama and pay into the state treasury not less than $100.00 nor more than $10,000.00 for each offense. (b) If any transportation company shall directly or indirectly make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, firm, corporation or locality, or subject any particular person, firm, or corporation or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever, such transportation company shall be guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and declared unlawful, and shall be liable to the state in a penalty of not less than $500.00 nor more than $5,000.00 for each offense. (Code 1907, §§5531, 5540; Acts 1909, No. 201, p. 210; Code 1923, §§10028, 10037; Code 1940, T. 48, §§119, 120.)
AL Code § 37-2-17 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-17 - Penalty for Excessive Rates.

Section 37-2-17Penalty for excessive rates. (a) If any transportation company doing business in this state or its agents or employees are guilty of making or demanding or receiving any charge for the transportation of persons or property, or for any service pertaining to or connected therewith, in excess of that prescribed by the Public Service Commission as by this chapter authorized, and after due notice of such violation given to the president or managing officer or any superintendent thereof in this state, and if ample and full recompense for the wrong or injury thereby to any person, firm, company, or corporation shall not be made within 60 days from the time of such notice, such transportation company shall forfeit for each offense the sum of not less than $50.00 nor more than $1,000.00, to be fixed by the court. (b) An action for the recovery of the penalty shall be in any circuit court in any county in this state where such violation has occurred or wrong has been perpetrated, and it shall be in the name of the State of Alabama. The commission may order the institution of such action by the Attorney General or the district attorney in the circuit in which the wrong is perpetrated, or such other attorney-at-law as may be appointed, on the complaint or request of the person aggrieved. (Code 1907, §§5715, 5716; Code 1923, §§9704, 9705; Code 1940, T. 48, §§121, 122.)
AL Code § 37-2-18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-18 - Treble Damages.

Section 37-2-18Treble damages. In addition to the penalties and forfeitures provided in this division to the state, railroads or other common carriers shall, for each violation of the provisions of this division, be liable to the person, firm, or corporation injured thereby in three times the amount of damages incurred and suffered. (Code 1907, §5559; Code 1923, §10058; Code 1940, T. 48, §123.)
AL Code § 37-2-19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-19 - Reparation.

Section 37-2-19Reparation. (a) Where complaint has been made to the commission concerning any rate or other charge of any transportation company and the commission has found, after a hearing, that the transportation company has received an excessive or unjustly discriminatory amount on account of such rate or charge, the commission may order that the transportation company make due reparation to the complainant therefor, within a time to be designated in said order, together with interest at the legal rate from the date of receipt of such excessive or unjustly discriminatory amount. The commission shall also make and file in every case in which reparation is ordered to be paid a full finding of the material facts upon which the order is based. Reparation shall not be awarded in case of any rate which has been adjudged to be just and reasonable and otherwise lawful by the commission after investigation had upon due notice and hearing. (b) If the transportation company does not comply with an order of the commission referred to in subsection (a) of this section, for the payment of money within the time fixed in such order, the complainant, or any person for whose benefit such order was made, may file in any court of competent jurisdiction a complaint setting forth briefly the causes for which he claims damages, and the findings and the order of the commission in the premises. Such action shall proceed in all respects like other civil actions for damages, except that on the trial of such suit in the findings and order of the commission shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. If the plaintiff shall finally prevail, he shall be allowed by the court a reasonable attorney's fee, to be taxed and collected as a part of the costs of the action. (c) All complaints for the recovery of reparation because of a rate that is unjust or unreasonable or otherwise unlawful shall be filed with the commission within six months from the time of the payment of the full lawful charges. (d) All complaints for the enforcement of an order of the commission for the payment of money under the provisions of subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this section shall be filed in the proper court within one year from the date of the order. The remedy provided in this section shall be cumulative, and in addition to any other remedy or remedies in this division provided in case of a failure of a transportation company to obey a rule, regulation, order or decision of the commission. (Acts 1920, No. 42, p. 92; Code 1923, §§9722-9725; Code 1940, T. 48, §§124-127.)
AL Code § 37-2-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-20 - Concentration and Transit Privileges and Rates.

Section 37-2-20Concentration and transit privileges and rates. Concentration and transit privileges and rates may be permitted or, upon complaint or upon its own motion after due notice and hearing, may be fixed or prescribed by the Alabama Public Service Commission upon traffic that is wholly intrastate upon such basis as is just and reasonable and as will remove any unjust discrimination or undue prejudice against intrastate commerce in favor of interstate commerce, but all such privileges and rates shall be open to all shippers and consignees for a like kind of traffic under similar circumstances and conditions, and such privileges and rates shall at all times be under the supervision, regulation and control of the Alabama Public Service Commission. (Code 1907, §5534; Acts 1923, No. 253, p. 259; Code 1923, §10031; Code 1940, T. 48, §128.)
AL Code § 37-2-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-21 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - When Issued; Contents; Receipt for Cotton in Bales; Common-Law Liability Not Affected.

Section 37-2-21Bills 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 terminating in this state, shall issue to the shipper a receipt or bill of lading therefor in which shall be stated the class or classes of freight shipped and the rate to the point of destination and aggregate charge made for the transportation and shall be liable to the lawful holder thereof for any loss, damage or injury to such property negligently caused by it or by any transportation company to which said property may be delivered, or over whose lines such property may pass; and no contract, stipulation, receipt, rule or regulation contained in said receipt or bill of lading, or otherwise, shall exempt such transportation company from the liability hereby imposed; but nothing in this subsection shall deprive any holder of such receipt or bill of lading of any remedy or right of action which he has under existing laws. (b) A transportation company receiving things or property of any kind for carriage, hire or reward must, on delivery to said company of such thing or property, give the person from whom received a receipt or bill of lading, stating the order or condition in which such things or property may be, and if cotton in bales is received, stating expressly the condition of the bagging, ropes, or ties, and of the cotton, whether dry, damp, wet, or very wet; and such transportation company is bound to deliver in like order and condition as when received; and if such receipt or bill of lading be not given, such things or property must be deemed and taken to have been in good order or condition at the time of delivery to such carrier, and he is bound to deliver in like good order and condition; and the carrier, neglecting or failing to give such receipt or bill of lading, is liable for all loss or damage the owner of such things or property may sustain in consequence of such neglect or failure, but nothing in this subsection contained must be construed as affecting the common-law liability of a common carrier for an injury to or for the loss of such things or property. (Code 1867, §1883; Code 1876, §2139; Code 1886, §1174; Code 1896, §§4218, 5547; Code 1907, §§5546, 6131; Code 1923, §§10043, 10044, 10491; Code 1940, T. 48, §§129, 133.)
AL Code § 37-2-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-22 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Not Given Until Property Delivered to Carrier; Duplicates.

Section 37-2-22Bills of lading or receipts - Not given until property delivered to carrier; duplicates. A transportation company engaged in the business of carriage, or of keeping for shipment, or of forwarding things or property, must not give a receipt or bill of lading for the things or property for carriage, or for keeping for shipment, or for forwarding unless such things or property have been actually delivered to said company, or placed in its control; and a second receipt or bill of lading must not be issued or given, the original being outstanding, without writing across the face thereof the word "duplicate." (Code 1886, §1175; Code 1896, §4219; Code 1907, §6132; Code 1923, §10492; Code 1940, T. 48, §134.)
AL Code § 37-2-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|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.

Section 37-2-23Bills 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 for carriage, shall issue or give a bill of lading, or receipt, as if such things or property had been received, the transportation company engaged in the business of keeping for shipment, or forwarding, shall issue a receipt for things or property, not having received them; or if any of such parties shall give or issue a second bill of lading, or receipt, the original being outstanding, not expressing in such second bill of lading or receipt that it is a duplicate, or shall surrender such things or property without receiving and cancelling the bill of lading or receipt issued therefor, or make partial delivery, without endorsing such partial delivery on such bill of lading or receipt, except as provided in Section 37-2-25, such transportation company is liable to any person injured thereby for all damages, immediate or consequential, therefrom resulting. (Code 1886, §1179; Code 1896, §4223; Code 1907, §6136; Code 1923, §10495; Code 1940, T. 48, §137.)
AL Code § 37-2-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-24 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Delivery to Cotton Compress.

Section 37-2-24Bills of lading or receipts - Delivery to cotton compress. A delivery of cotton at or to a compress for the purpose of being compressed, at the instance or in the usual course of business of a transportation company, or other person engaged in the business of carriage, or of keeping for shipment, or of forwarding, may be taken and deemed as an actual delivery to such transportation company or other person, and a receipt or bill of lading may be issued or given therefor. (Code 1886, §1176; Code 1896, §4220; Code 1907, §6133; Code 1923, §10493; Code 1940, T. 48, §135.)
AL Code § 37-2-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-25 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Unauthorized Sale or Transfer of Property Prohibited.

Section 37-2-25Bills of lading or receipts - Unauthorized sale or transfer of property prohibited. A transportation company or other person engaged in the business of carriage or of keeping for shipment, or of forwarding things or property, must not, otherwise than is authorized by law or by the contract of delivery to him, make sale of things or property entrusted to him; nor, without the assent in writing of the person to whom he may have given a receipt or bill of lading, or of the legal holder of such receipt or bill of lading, encumber or transfer the same; nor must he, otherwise than as may be authorized by the contract of delivery to him, part with the control or possession of such things or property without the assent in writing of the person to whom he may have given a receipt or bill of lading, or of the legal holder of such receipt or bill of lading. (Code 1886, §1177; Code 1896, §4221; Code 1907, §6134; Code 1923, §10494; Code 1940, T. 48, §136.)
AL Code § 37-2-26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-26 - Bills of Lading or Receipts - Charges to Be Settled According to Stipulated Rate.

Section 37-2-26Bills of lading or receipts - Charges to be settled according to stipulated rate. All transportation companies doing business in this state shall settle their freight charges according to the rate stipulated in the bill of lading, provided the rate stipulated therein is in conformity with the classifications and rates made and filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission, in case of shipment from without the state, and with those filed with or established or approved by the Public Service Commission of the state, or those established by statute, in case of shipments wholly within the state, by which classification and rates all consignees shall in all cases be entitled to settle freight charges with such companies, and it shall be the duty of such transportation companies to inform any consignee or consignees of the correct amount due for freight, according to such classification and rates, and upon payment or tender of the amount due, according to such classification and rates, on any shipment which has arrived at its destination, such company shall deliver the freight in question to the consignee. (Code 1907, §5550; Code 1923, §10047; Code 1940, T. 48, §130.)
AL Code § 37-2-27 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 37 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation.|Chapter 2 - Transportation Companies.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Division 1 - Rates and Other Regulations.|Section 37-2-27 - Notice to Consignees of Arrival of Freight.

Section 37-2-27Notice to consignees of arrival of freight. A transportation company, if the place of destination of freight is a city or town having a daily mail, is not relieved from liability as a transportation company by reason of a deposit or storage of freight in a depot or warehouse, unless, within 24 hours after the arrival of such freight, notice thereof is given the consignee, personally or through the mail; and if notice is given through the mail, the postage must, by the consignee, be refunded to the carrier. (Code 1886, §1180; Code 1896, §4224; Code 1907, §6137; Code 1923, §10496; Code 1940, T. 48, §138.)