Title CV, Vernon's Civil Statutes

Art. 4006a. EXCEPTIONS. The preceding article shall not apply in cases where the laws of this State provide that such companies as are referred to in said article, or the receivers or lessees thereof, or persons operating the same, or the officers, agents or employés thereof, may…

Art. 4006b. USING ANOTHER'S PASS. If any person shall present, or offer to use, in his own behalf, any permit or frank whatever, to travel, pass or to convey any person or property or message which has been issued to any other person, or shall, knowing that he is not entitled und…

Art. 4007. DEFINITIONS. The word "employee" as used in this title shall be held to include all officers, agents or employees, actually employed and engaged in the service of such corporation, company, association of persons, including its officers, bona fide ticket and freight ag…

Art. 4008. SPECIAL RATES. Nothing in this title shall be held to prevent any corporation, association or person mentioned in the first article of this title from granting transportation at the rate of one cent per mile to veterans mentioned in the preceding article, or their wive…

Art. 4008a. AGED, BLIND OR DISABLED PERSONS; SPECIAL RATES. Transportation companies which operate in the municipalities of this state may set special reduced rates or fares for persons who are 60 years of age or older or who are blind or disabled. Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 88, ch…

Art. 4008b. STREET RAILWAYS. All persons or corporations owning or operating street railways or motor buses in or upon the public streets of any city of not less than twenty thousand inhabitants are required: 1. To carry children of the age of twelve years or less for one-half th…

Art. 4009. FREE TRANSPORTATION. Nothing in this title shall be construed to prohibit any express company from hauling or carrying free of charge any package or property of its actual bona fide officers, attorneys, agents and employees while in the service of such express company,…

Art. 4010. ADVERTISING. Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent any of the parties named in the first article hereof, publishers, editors or proprietors of newspapers or magazines, from making an exchange of mileage for advertising space in such newspaper or magazine,…

Art. 4011. DISCRIMINATION AS TO PERSONS. If any corporation, company, association, or person mentioned in Article 4005 shall grant to any sheriff, constable, or marshal a free pass over its lines of railroad, it shall issue like free transportation to each and every sheriff, cons…

Art. 4012. EVIDENCE OF AUTHORITY. Any veteran of any of the wars mentioned in this title, their wives, widows or members of their families, and any minister of religion, or any fireman, sister of charity or member of any religious society of like character, who desires to receive…

Art. 4013. DISCRIMINATION BY DEVICE. No corporation, company or person mentioned in the first article of this title shall directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, demand, exchange, collect or receive from any person, firm, association or cor…

Art. 4013a. DISCRIMINATION BY DEVICE. No steam or electric railway company, street railway company, interurban railway company, or other chartered transportation company, express company, sleeping car company, telegraph or telephone company, shall directly or indirectly, by any s…

Art. 4014. REPORTS, ETC. Each corporation, company or persons subject to the provisions of this title shall, as and when requested by the Railroad Commission of Texas, furnish said Commission with any and all information which may at any time be requested by said Commission relat…

Art. 4015. PENALTY. Any corporation, company, association of persons or any person named in the first article of this title violating any provision of this title, except Article 4014, shall forfeit and pay to the State of Texas a penalty of five thousand dollars for each violatio…

Art. 4015a. UNLAWFULLY USING FREE PASS. Any person, other than the persons excepted by law, who uses such free ticket, free pass or free transportation, frank or privilege over any railway or other transportation line or sleeping or express car, telegraph or telephone line mentio…

Art. 4015b. EVADING LAW. Any director, officer, agent or any receiver, trustee, lessee or person acting for, or employed by, any company subject to the provisions of the preceding articles of this chapter, who alone, or with any other corporation, company, persons or party, shall…

Art. 4015c. MAY BE COMPELLED TO TESTIFY. In any investigation or prosecution under any provision of this chapter, the court or tribunal in which the same is pending may compel any person to attend and give testimony, and to produce such papers, books and documents as may be desir…

Art. 4015d. REDUCED RATE FOR OFFICERS. Any steam railroad company or any electric interurban railroad company or any person or persons operating the same, or any receiver or receivers, or lessee or lessees thereof, shall be permitted to transport between points wholly within this…

Art. 4015e. COLLECTING FARE FROM STATE OR POLITICAL SUBDIVISION BY OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE USING FREE PASS. Sec. 1. No officer or employee of the State of Texas, any county, city, town, or village, or of any municipality or political subdivision, using or accepting the benefits of an…

Art. 4015f. PREFERENCE IN TRANSPORTATION. By the word "preference" as used in this article is meant any advantage, privilege, right, opportunity, precedence, choice, favor, priority, or gain that is or may be, or is sought or purposed to be accorded, granted, given, allowed, perm…

Art. 4015g. SUITS FOR PENALTY. (a) A suit brought under this title for recovery of penalties may be brought in any county in which: (1) a violation of this title is committed; (2) the company or receiver has an agent or representative; or (3) the principal office of the company i…