Title 48, Title 48: PUBLIC UTILITIES

48:8-13. Deviating from course to impede boat passing in same direction; penalty; damages When a steamboat navigating the waters within the jurisdiction of this state shall attempt to pass another boat going in the same direction, the master or person having charge of such other …

48:8-14. Steamboats passing nearer than ten yards; penalty Neither of two steamboats meeting each other while going in opposite directions upon the waters within the jurisdiction of this state shall be so navigated as unnecessarily to approach the other to within the distance of …

48:8-15. Lights on steamboats navigated at night; penalty; damages Every steamboat navigating the waters within the jurisdiction of this state at night shall show a good and sufficient light near her bows and another near her stern; the latter to be at least twenty feet above her…

48:8-16. Law posted in cabin of steamboats; penalty The owner or master of every steamboat navigating the waters within the jurisdiction of this state shall keep a copy of this article posted up in some conspicuous place in the cabin of the boat under a penalty of twenty-five dol…

48:8-17. Actions for penalties; process 48:8-17. The penalties imposed by this article shall be recoverable by action at law, with costs, in any court having cognizance thereof, by any person who will sue for the same. Whenever any action for the recovery of any such penalty is p…

48:8-2. Table of rates; posting at ferry. 48:8-2. a. The owner or operator of every ferry shall erect and maintain, where the ferry is kept, a post with a table of the rates and route schedule fixed by the board, printed, written, or painted in large capitals, annexed thereto. Th…

48:8-3. Taking excessive fare; penalty. Any ferryman, keeper of a ferry or his servant who shall demand or take a greater fare than that fixed by the board shall for every such offense be liable to a penalty of three dollars.

48:8-4. Proper boats adequately equipped required; penalties. The owner or keeper of every ferry shall provide proper boats or other vessels sufficient for the safe and speedy transportation of passengers, horses, cattle, vehicles and goods, and properly furnished with the necess…

48:8-5. Refusal to or delay in carrying passengers or goods; exception. Every ferryman shall give constant and diligent attendance to his ferry, and shall not deny or unnecessarily delay the carrying over any passenger, horses, cattle, vehicles or goods under the penalty of three…

48:8-6. Ejecting persons from ferryboats. Every ferryman may exclude or eject from his ferryboat or other vessel any person who shall attempt to enter, or enter or stay therein contrary to the order of the ferryman. The person so doing contrary to his order shall be liable to a p…

48:8-7. Persons carried according to arrival; penalty All persons shall be received into the ferryboats or vessels and carried over the ferry according to their arrival at the ferry, provided all public officers and such as go on public or urgent occasions, as posts, couriers, ph…

48:8-8. Maintenance of safe landing places 48:8-8. All owners or keepers of ferries shall construct and maintain safe places of landing, where they are needed, upon penalty of forfeiting such sum as the Superior Court shall, upon complaint, determine to be sufficient to construct…

48:8-9. Actions for penalties The penalties imposed by this article, except section 48:8-8 of this title, shall be recoverable by action at law, with costs, by any person who will sue for the same.