Title 35 — Railroads and Other Carriers.

Whenever any freight, baggage, or other property transported by a common carrier to, or deposited with a common carrier at, any point in the District of Columbia, shall remain unclaimed by the owner or consignee, or the charges thereon shall remain unpaid for the space of 6 month…

Upon the application of such carrier, verified by affidavit, to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, setting forth that the place of residence of the owner or consignee of any such freight, baggage, or other property is unknown, or that such freight, baggage, or other …

The residue of moneys arising from any such sale, under either § 35-101 or § 35-102, after deducting the amount of charges, including charges for transportation, the cost of handling and storage, demurrage, and the costs and expenses of proceedings to authorize the sale, and of a…

Upon the completion by it of the substitute facilities authorized by § 35-122 hereof, the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company is authorized, without any further or other authority, to abandon and remove the 7th Street substation built and maintained by it purs…

In lieu of the said substation and facilities maintained at the intersection of 7th Street and C Street Southwest, in the City of Washington, the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company is authorized to construct and maintain on the train platform an enclosed wait…

The area in square south of 463 on the map of the City of Washington heretofore used for station purposes shall revert to the District of Columbia upon the completion of these improvements; provided, that the said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company shall cons…

Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal §§ 35-121 to 35-123.

No competitive street railway or bus line, that is, bus or railway line for the transportation of passengers of the character which runs over a given route on a fixed schedule, shall be established without the prior issuance of a certificate by the Public Service Commission of th…

Every street railroad company or corporation owning, controlling, leasing or operating 1 or more street railroads within the District of Columbia shall on each and all of its railroads supply and operate a sufficient number of cars, clean, sanitary, in good repair, with proper an…

Prosecutions for violations of any of the provisions of §§ 35-202, 35-206, and 35-207 shall be on information of the Corporation Counsel filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by or on behalf of the District of Columbia.

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized and empowered to make and to enforce all reasonable regulations in respect to requiring street cars operated by other means than horsepower in the District of Columbia to be provided with proper fenders for the protection…

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The Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company, the Washington Railway and Electric Company, the City and Suburban Railway Company, and the Capital Traction Company are hereby permitted to lay duct lines on such streets as may be necessary for the proper operation of their line…

No transfer ticket or written or printed instrument giving or purporting to give the right of transfer to any person or persons from a rail transit car or from a public passenger vehicle with a capacity for seating 12 or more, owed or operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area …

Every street railway in the District of Columbia whose lines connect, or whose lines may, after August 2, 1894, connect, with the lines of any other street-railway company, is hereby required to make reciprocal transfer arrangements with such street-railway companies, and to furn…

No other rail than a flat grooved rail made level with the surface of the streets upon each side of the tracks or roadbeds, so that no obstruction shall be presented to vehicles passing over said tracks, shall be laid by any street railway company in the streets of Washington; pr…

It shall be unlawful for any street-railway company operating its system or parts of its system over any portion of the underground electric lines owned and operated by another street-railway company in the City of Washington to continue such operation, or to enter into reciproca…

Whenever the track or tracks, or any part thereof, of any street-railway company in the District of Columbia shall not have been regularly operated for railway purposes upon a schedule as required by its charter for a period of 3 months, the Mayor of said District, in his discret…

All street-railway companies within the District of Columbia on January 1, 1902, operating their systems, or parts of their systems, in the City of Washington by use of the tracks of 1 or more of such companies, under a reciprocal trackage agreement, which shall be compelled to d…

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Every street-railroad corporation in the District of Columbia, and every such corporation which shall be organized after June 10, 1896, shall, on or before the 1st day of February in each year, make a report to each the Senate and the House of Representatives, which report shall …

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The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to enter into an agreement with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for the transportation, at reduced fares, of students going to and from public, parochial, and private schools and to and from related educationa…

(a)(1) On regular school days, no student shall be charged a bus fare for regular route transportation within the District during peak and off-peak hours on the Metrobus Transit System and the DC Circulator. (2) The fare to be paid by a student on regular school days for regular …

(a) Student fare tokens and tickets shall be issued by the Mayor of the District of Columbia only to students who present a certification of eligibility to use the Metrobus Transit System issued by an authorized school official. (b) Certifications of eligibility shall be issued o…

(a) Student Metrorail discount cards shall be issued by the Mayor of the District of Columbia only to those students who: (1) Present a certification of eligibility to use the Metrorail Transit System issued by an authorized school official; and (2) Have a need to use the Metrora…

(a) The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority shall certify to the Mayor, as soon as practicable, following the end of each calendar month: (1) The amount that is the difference between the total number of all Metrobus student fare tickets or tokens collected by the Wash…

The Mayor shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to carry out §§ 35-232 to 35-237, including rules and regulations relating to the maximum number of Metrobus student fare tokens and Metrorail student farecards that may be purchased by an eligible student at any 1 time o…

(a) For the purposes of this section, the term “rail transit station” means a regular rail stopping place for the pick-up and discharge of passengers in regular route service, contract service, special or community-type service, including the fare-paid areas and roofed areas of t…

No person shall either knowingly board a public or private passenger vehicle for hire, including vehicles owned and/or operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which is transporting passengers within the corporate limits of the District of Columbia; or know…

A carrier may refuse to transport a person or persons whose immediately observed conduct or behavior would constitute a violation of § 35-251 or § 35-252.

Violation of § 35-251(b) shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $50 for a 1st offense and by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $100 or by imprisonment for not more than 10 days or both for each 2nd or subsequent offense. A violation of § 35-251(c…

(a)(1) The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority shall post or otherwise provide conspicuous notice of the enhanced penalties for the commission of certain offenses against transit operators and Metrorail station managers in the District of Columbia pursuant to § 22-3751…

Any or all of the street railway companies operating in the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered to merge or consolidate, either by purchase or lease by 1 company of the properties, and/or stocks or securities of any of the others, or by the formation of a new…

Every common carrier engaged in trade or commerce in the District of Columbia, or in any territory of the United States, or between the several states, or between any territory and another, or between any territory or territories and any state or states, or the District of Columb…

In all actions brought against any common carriers to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery where his contributed…

No contract of employment, insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity for injury or death entered into by or on behalf of any employee, nor the acceptance of any such insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity by the person entitled thereto, shall constitute any bar or defense to any a…

No action shall be maintained under this chapter unless commenced within 1 year from the time the cause of action accrued.

Nothing in §§ 35-301 to 35-304, inclusive, shall be held to limit the duty of common carriers by railroads or impair the rights of their employees under the Safety Appliance Act of March 2, 1893, as amended April 1, 1896, and March 2, 1903.

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