thereof, the fact of such service, and the time and place of such application, is guilty of a misdemeanor. corpora § 613. It is no defense to a prosecution for a violation of Foreign the provisions of this chapter, that the corporation was one tions. created by the laws of another state, government or country, if it carried on business, or kept an office therefor, within this state. defined. § 614. The term "director," as used in this chapter, em- "Director* braces any of the persons having by law the direction or management of the affairs of a corporation, by whatever name such persons are described in its charter, or are known in law. CHAPTER XII. FRAUDS IN THE SALE OF PASSAGE TICKETS. SECTION 615. Sale of passage tickets on vessels and railroads, forbidden, except by agents specially authorized. 616. Sales by authorized agents, restricted. 617. Unauthorized persons forbidden to sell certificates, receipts, &c., 618. Punishment for violation of the preceding sections. 619. Conspiring to sell passage tickets in violation of law. 620. Conspirators may be indicted, notwithstanding object of con- 621. Offices kept for unlawful sale of passage tickets, declared dis- 622. Owners, pursers, &c., allowed to sell tickets. 623. Station masters, conductors, &c., allowed to sell tickets. 624. What must be stated in passage tickets. 625. Sale of tickets not filled out as required in last section, a mis- 626. Certain sales and exchanges of passenger tickets. passage tickets on vessels § 615. No person shall issue or sell, or offer to sell, any Sale of passage ticket, or au instrument giving or purporting to give any right, either absolutely or upon any condition and railor contingency, to a passage or conveyance upon any ves- except by sel or railway train, or a berth or state-room in any ves- specially roads, for bidden, agents authorized. Sales by authorized agents, re sel, unless he is an authorized agent of the owners or con- § 616. No person except as allowed in section 622 shall stricted. ask, take or receive any money or valuable thing as a consideration for any passage or conveyance upon any vessel Unauthorized per or railway train, or for the procurement of any ticket or § 617. No person other than an agent appointed, as prosons for vided in section 615, shall sell, or offer to sell, or in any bidden to sell certifi cates, re-way attempt to dispose of any order, certificate, receipt or ceipts, &c., purpose of tickets. other instrument for the purpose, or under the pretense, of for the procuring any ticket, or instrument mentioned in section procuring 615, upon any company or line, vessel or railway train therein mentioned. And every such order sold or offered for sale by any agent, must be directed to the company, owners or consignees at their office. ment for violation of the § 618. A person guilty of a violation of any of the Punishprovisions of the preceding sections of this chapter, is pun- vit ishable by imprisonment in a state prison not exceeding sections. two years, or by imprisonment in a county jail not less than six months. preceding ing to sell tickets in of law. § 619. All persons who conspire together to sell or at- Conspirtempt to sell, to any person, any passage ticket, or other passage instrument mentioned in sections 615 and 617, in violation violation of those sections, and all persons, who, by means of any such conspiracy, obtain, or attempt to obtain any money or other property, under the pretense of procuring or securing any passage or right of passage in violation of this chapter, are punishable by imprisonment in a state prison not exceeding five years. tors may $620. Persons guilty of violating the last section may conspirabe indicted and convicted for a conspiracy, though the be indictobject of such conspiracy has not been executed. ed, notwithstanding object of conspiracy has not been plished. kept for sale of § 621. All offices kept for the purpose of selling passage accomtickets in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, Des and all offices where any such sale is made, are deemed unlawful disorderly houses; and all persons keeping any such office, passage and all persons associating together for the purpose of vio-clared dislating any of the provisions of this chapter, are punishable by imprisonment in a county jail, for a period not exceeding six months, and not less than three months. orderly houses. pursers, § 622. The provisions of this chapter do not prevent the owners, actual owners or consignees of any vessel, from selling pas. &c., allowsage tickets thereon; nor do they prevent the purser or tickets. ed to sell Station masters, ors, &c., allowed to sell tickets. clerk of any vessel from selling in his office on board of such vessel, any passage tickets upon such vessel. § 623. The provisions of this chapter do not prevent the conduct station master or other ticket agent upon any railway, from selling in his office at any station on such railway, any passage tickets upon such railway; nor do they prevent any conductor upon a railway from selling such tickets upon the trains of such railway. What must § 624. A ticket or instrument issued as evidence of a in passage right of passage upon the high seas, from any port in this be stated Sale of tickets not as required state, to any port of any other state or nation, and every certificate or order issued for the purpose, or under pretense of procuring any such ticket or instrument, and every receipt for money paid for such ticket or instrument must state the name of the vessel on board of which the passage is to be made, the name of the owners or consignees of such vessel, the name of the company, or line, if any, to which such vessel belongs, the place from which such passage is to commence, the place where such passage is to terminate, the day of the month and year upon which the voyage is to commence, the name of the person or persons purchasing such ticket or instrument, or receiving such order, certificate or receipt, and the amount paid therefor; and such ticket or instrument, order, certificate or receipt, unless sold or issued by the owners or consignees of such vessel, must be signed by their authorized agent. § 625. A person who issues, sells or delivers to another, filled out any ticket, instrument, certificate, order or receipt, which is in last sec- not made or filled out as prescribed in the last section, is guilty of a misdemeanor. tion, a misdemeanor. sales and 1. Sells, or causes to be sold, a passage ticket, or order exchanges of ger tickets. for such ticket on any railway, vehicle, or vessel, to any emigrant passenger at a higher rate than one and a quarter cents per mile; or 2. Takes payment for any such ticket or order for a ticket under a false representation as to the class of the ticket, whether emigrant or first-class; or 3. Directly or indirectly, by means of false representations, purchases or receives from an emigrant passenger any such ticket; or 4. Procures or solicits any such passenger having such a ticket, to exchange the same for another passenger ticket, or to sell the same and purchase some other passenger ticket; or 5. Solicits or books any passenger arriving at the port of New York from a foreign country, before such passenger has left the vessel on which he has arrived, or enters or goes on board any vessel arriving at the port of New York from a foreign country, having emigrant passengers on board, for the purpose of soliciting or booking such passengers, and a person or agent of a corporation employing any person for the purpose of booking such passengers before leaving the ship; Is guilty of a misdemeanor. pany § 627. The term "company," as used in this chapter, "Com includes all corporations, whether created under the laws defined. of this state, or of the United States, or of those of any other state or nation. CHAPTER XIII. FRAUDULENT ISSUE OF DOCUMENTS OF TITLE TO MERCHANDISE. SECTION 628. Issuing fictitious bills of lading, &c. 629. Issuing fictitious warehouse receipts. 630. Erroneous bills of lading or receipts, issued in good faith, ex- 631. Duplicate receipts must be marked "duplicate." 632 Selling, hypothecating or pledging property received for trans portation or storage. 633. Bill of lading or receipt issued by warehouseman, must be can- 634. Property demanded by process of law. |