North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 04 - COMMERCE › Chapter 11 - UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 2 › Article 9 - MISCELLANEOUS › Section 11 R02-56 - TICKETS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) Carriers to
				  Provide Tickets. - All passenger carriers shall provide tickets at all agency
				  stations and at such other places indicated on the published time schedules
				  where satisfactory financial arrangements for handling can be made.
(b) Tickets to Be Accepted by Connecting and
				  Interconnecting Carriers. - All passenger carriers shall join in publishing an
				  interline tariff and furnish such tariff to all agents on all carriers' lines
				  and all tickets when sold by one carrier over another line or lines shall be
				  accepted by the other carrier, or carriers, at the value of the ticket set
				  forth in the interline tariff, less the percentage charge for selling
				  commission, and the accepting carrier shall render statements to originating
				  carrier, or seller, at regular intervals of not less than thirty (30)
				  days.
(c) Carriers Operating
				  Between Common Points. - Passenger carriers operating from a common station
				  where tickets are sold to a common destination, over the same or different
				  routes, shall honor the tickets of one another between said points, and the
				  carrier lifting the same shall be reimbursed therefor by the issuing carrier in
				  the amount paid for same, less the applicable station charge at point of
				  sale.
(d) Passenger to Determine
				  Ticket Destination. - At the time of the sale of an interline ticket the
				  passenger shall determine the destination and routing called for on the ticket,
				  provided such destination be on a known carrier's line and recorded in the
				  joint or interline tariff and such interline ticket shall not be reissued en
				  route except at the passenger's request. The passenger shall be given the
				  advantage of a reduction of fare, if any, because of the change in routing and
				  the reissuing carrier shall make the adjustment and note same on the original
				  ticket for the information of the original seller who shall reimburse the
				  reissuing carrier upon the receipt of the statement in which the original
				  ticket, or a portion of the original ticket, is rendered.
(e) "Closed Ticket". - No carrier or ticket
				  agent shall issue so-called "closed tickets," or by any rule, practice, or
				  device deter or prevent passengers from having their tickets reissued and
				  rerouted at any interchange agency station upon the request of
				  passengers.
(f) Reissue of Ticket
				  to Permit Passenger to Reach Destination. - When passenger cannot board issuing
				  carrier's bus out of station, ticket may be reissued so as to permit passenger
				  to reach destination over most convenient route but the return ticket must not
				  be taken up and reissued at this time.
(g) Reissue of Ticket to Returning Passenger.
				  - When returning passenger cannot take issuing carrier's bus out of the
				  station, ticket should be reissued for passenger to go to original issuing
				  carrier's nearest station on passenger's most direct return route and then over
				  original issuing carrier's route, unless passenger requests another
				  routing.
(h) Sale of Tickets in
				  Municipality Not on Carrier's Line. - No carrier shall sell, nor cause or
				  permit its agent to sell, tickets in any town or city not on its
				  line.
(i) Redemption of Tickets. -
				  All tickets when sold shall have the date of sale stamped thereon. Tickets when
				  sold shall be redeemable for transportation within the limits of the tariff
				  when presented to driver on a bus or shall be redeemable at their sale price in
				  money by the selling agent on duty at the station where the ticket was
				  purchased on the date of sale or by the company within twelve months of the
				  date of sale stamped thereon; if no date is stamped thereon at time of sale,
				  such tickets shall be redeemable upon presentation at any time; provided, that
				  where tickets have been sold and baggage checked for transportation the carrier
				  may deduct, at time of redemption, the usual amount to reimburse it for baggage
				  transfer.
(j) Disposition of
				  Redeemed Tickets. - Tickets redeemed at a station as provided for under
				  subsection (i) shall not be resold and must be sent in to the home office of
				  the company whose ticket was refunded for redemption.