Baggage The payment of the fare between any given points in Georgia shall entitle the passenger to the transportation of at least one hundred and fifty pounds of baggage, in the same direction between those For the transportation of baggage that may be in excess of one hundred and fifty pounds, between points in this State, the following Minimum excess baggage charge 10 cents. NOTE. The above Tariff is subject to the provisions of Freight 66 Where baggage is transported on a passenger ticket which for any reason is not used by the holder for personal transportation, and application for refund is made, the carrier shall, if such ticket shows baggage checked, charge for the transportation of such baggage only on the total weight thereof, not exceeding double the excess baggage rates per 100 pounds above shown, and the difference between this sum and the original price paid for the passenger ticket plus any excess baggage charge made, shall be refunded. RULE 3A. No common carrier shall be required to accept for transportation as baggage, within this State, under the provisions of Rule 3, any piece of baggage the greatest dimensions of which exceeds seventy-two (72) inches. Provided, that this rule shall not apply to immigrant baggage checked at port of landing, whips in flexible cases, and public entertainment paraphernalia: No common carrier shall be required to accept for transportation as baggage within this State, under the provisions of Rule 3, any trunk or other rigid container, having more than two bulging sides, or with two bugling sides not opposite to each other. No common carrier shall be required to accept for transportation as baggage, within this State, under the provisions of Rule 3, whips in flexible cases which exceed ninety (90) inches in length, or twelve (12) inches in diameter at the base, or one hundred (100) pounds in weight. Subject to the provisions of Rule 3, any common carrier within this State may charge for any piece of baggage (except immigrant baggage checked at port of landing, whips in flexible cases, and public entertainment paraphernalia), any dimension of which exceeds forty-five (45) inches, and additional sum for each additional inch equal to the charge for five (5) pounds of excess weight, gable or dome shaped ends, or similar protuberances, to be included in the measurements. RULE 4. All railroad, depot or terminal companies in this State, shall receive at all stations where they have agents all baggage, proper for transportation, presented by prospective passengers, or their agents, and issue on demand a claim check for the same, and upon presentation by the holder of such claim check with transportation, said company shall issue train checks. RULE 5. Charge for transporting baggage which is unaccompanied by passenger. Dimensions of baggage to be checked free. Must receive baggage and issue claim checks. Where baggage received by companies as provided for by Rule 4 is not checked within twenty-four hours after being so received, or Storage where baggage is allowed to remain unclaimed at destination more charges. than twenty-four hours after arrival of train transporting same, such companies are authorized to charge twenty-five cents for storage of the same for each separate twenty-four hours, or fraction thereof, after the expiration of said twenty-four hours.-Sunday and legal holidays excepted. Baggage must be checked 15 minutes be fore train leaves. Excursion rates exempted. Must sell tickets at depots. Comfortable cars and waiting-rooms. Waiting rooms to be opened before arrival of trains. At nonjunc tion stations. RULE 6. Railroad companies shall not be required to send any baggage on any train unless the baggage shall have been checked fifteen minutes before the departure of the train. RULE 7. Nothing in the rules of this Commission shall be construed as placing any restriction upon the privilege of railroad companies to make special rates for excursions or for any other special occasion. RULE 8. All of the various kinds of tickets that may be on sale at any and all other offices of a given railroad company, in any given town or city, shall likewise be kept on sale at the depot ticket-office of such railroad company in such town or city, at the same prices. RULE 9. All passenger waiting rooms and passenger cars in use by railroads in this State shall be kept supplied with drinking-water, and shall be so lighted, heated, ventilated and equipped as to render occupants of the same reasonably comfortable, the circumstances of each case being considered. All passenger waiting-rooms at junction points and passenger-cars in use by railroads in this State shall be kept supplied with suitable, sanitary or sterilized drinking-cups, which shall be placed or kept so as to be at all times easily accessible to passengers, and may be supplied from a dispensing or vending machine, and for each a charge of not exceeding one cent may be made by the railroad company whose duty it is made to supply the same. RULE 10. "At junction points railroad companies shall be required to open their depot ticket offices and waiting rooms for the accommodation of the traveling public at least thirty minutes before the schedule time for the arrival of all passenger trains scheduled to stop at such junction points: At all stations located in county seats and towns and cities having a population, according to the most recently published national census, of more than one thousand inhabitants offices and waiting rooms shall be open during the period that the freight station is required to be open as provided for in Freight Rule No. 25 for at least thirty minutes before the scheduled time for the arrival of all passenger trains scheduled to stop at such stations. And at all such stations, between the hours of six o'clock P. M. and six o'clock A. M., railroads shall provide, for the comfort and convenience of their passengers, a lighted and comfortable waiting room, which shall be open at least one hour before the scheduled arrival and one-half hour after the actual departure of all passenger trains scheduled to stop at such stations: At all other stations located in cities and towns having a population, according to the most recently published national census, of less than one thousand inhabitants ticket offices shall only be required to be open during the period that the freight station is required to be open, as provided for in Freight Rule No. 25. Waiting rooms, however, at such stations shall be kept open, lighted and heated when necessary until ten o'clock P. M. for the convenience of passengers arriving or departing on trains scheduled to arrive and stop at such stations before that hour: Provided, however, that at any station at which a railroad company may have employed a telegraph operator on duty during hours other than those prescribed by Freight Rule No. 25 for the opening and closing of freight stations, both ticket offices and waiting rooms at such points shall be open during the period such operator may be on duty, for the accommodation of passengers, at least thirty minutes before the scheduled arrival of all trains scheduled to stop at such stations. Where under the provisions of this rule a ticket office is not open nor an agent on duty upon the arrival of a passenger train, it shall be the duty of the railroad company to make adequate and convenient arrangements for the checking of baggage and its loading on or discharge from baggage coaches." RULE 11. Whenever any passenger-train on any railroad in this State shall be more than one-half of one hour behind its schedule time, it shall be the duty of said railroad to bulletin, and to keep posted at each of its telegraph stations along its line, between such delayed train and its destination, notice of the time such train is behind schedule time, and the time of its arrival at such stations, as nearly as can be approximated. Delayed trains must be bulletined. RULE 12. Whenever there is, by reason of accident or otherwise, a break or obstruction on the line of any railroad company in this State that will probably delay any passenger-train on said railroad, it shall be Notice to the duty of said railroad company to cause notice thereof to be bulletined at all stations, at and between such passenger-train and the place so obstructed; and said railroad company shall cause notice of such obstruction, and the delay that will probably be caused thereby, to be given to the passengers aboard such trains, before the same shall leave such stations. Convenient Stopping of passenger trains. Guns on pas RULE 13. All passenger trains operated in this State shall, at all stations where such trains stop, either upon flag or regular schedule, be brought to a standstill with such relation to the waiting rooms of the station building or other passenger facilities at said station, as will render egress from and ingress to said trains most practicable and convenient for the passengers, without reference to the convenient handling of baggage or other freight. RULE 14. No person shall be permitted to board a train, or enter a car in senger trains. which passengers ride, in this State, with a loaded gun, and all breechloading guns shall be unbreeched on boarding such train or entering such car. Conductors of railway trains are authorized to see to the enforcement of this rule, and failure on the part of any passenger to comply with the terms hereof shall be cause for ejecting such passenger from the train. Careful handling of baggage. RULE 15. At all stations in this State where baggage trucks are provided, all trunks and other personal baggage shall be unloaded from baggage cars onto said baggage trucks, and baggage handled with all reasonable care, the dropping of same from car doors, platforms or trucks, or other rough handling of baggage, being-expressly forbidden. Provided; That the handling of baggage by hand from cars to depot platforms, or other customary places of depositing baggage in such careful manner as will not damage same, will be a compliance with this rule. Half fare for RULE 16. (Effective October 24, 1923) In compliance with resolution adopted by the General Assembly of Georgia, 1923 session, the Commission adopts the following as Passenger Rule No. 16: All railroads, steamship companies, and other common carriers, may charge one-half of the regular fare authorized by the Commission for the transportation of Confederate Veterans. |