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23-10-437. Intrastate freight — Rules.
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23-10-437. Intrastate freight — Rules.
(a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized and empowered, as to all freight carried wholly within this state and the cars used therefor:
(1) To make and establish all needful rules, general and special, which may be different according to the circumstances and conditions of different railroads and localities and for different kinds and classes of freight and cars, providing for the time, place, and manner of demanding cars for or giving notice of shipment of such freight and the time, place, and manner and the order in which the cars shall be furnished to shippers for the purpose of shipping freight between points in this state; and
(2) To prescribe rules for:
(A) The furnishing, exchanging, and interchanging of cars, loaded and empty, by railroad companies as between each other;
(B) The time, place, terms, and conditions upon which cars shall be furnished and interchange shall be made, and, in the absence of an agreement of such railroad companies, the reasonable compensation to be paid by each railroad company for the use, loss, injury, or destruction of the cars of another railroad company in the transportation of freight;
(C) The time within which and the manner by which railroad companies shall give notice or make demand upon each other for cars to be furnished by one railroad company in exchange for loaded cars or to have its cars returned, the reasonable free time to be allowed the shipper for the loading of cars without incurring liability for demurrage, and the free time which shall be allowed to the shipper or consignee in which to unload freight without incurring any liability for demurrage; and
(D) A schedule of reasonable demurrage charges, reciprocal or otherwise, for the use of cars, ir
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-10-437
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23-10-437. Intrastate freight — Rules.
(a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized and empowered, as to all freight carried wholly within this state and the cars used therefor:
(1) To make and establish all needful rules, general and special, which may be different according to the circumstances and conditions of different railroads and localities and for different kinds and classes of freight and cars, providing for the time, place, and manner of demanding cars for or giving notice of shipment of such freight and the time, place, and manner and the order in which the cars shall be furnished to shippers for the purpose of shipping freight between points in this state; and
(2) To prescribe rules for:
(A) The furnishing, exchanging, and interchanging of cars, loaded and empty, by railroad companies as between each other;
(B) The time, place, terms, and conditions upon which cars shall be furnished and interchange shall be made, and, in the absence of an agreement of such railroad companies, the reasonable compensation to be paid by each railroad company for the use, loss, injury, or destruction of the cars of another railroad company in the transportation of freight;
(C) The time within which and the manner by which railroad companies shall give notice or make demand upon each other for cars to be furnished by one railroad company in exchange for loaded cars or to have its cars returned, the reasonable free time to be allowed the shipper for the loading of cars without incurring liability for demurrage, and the free time which shall be allowed to the shipper or consignee in which to unload freight without incurring any liability for demurrage; and
(D) A schedule of reasonable demurrage charges, reciprocal or otherwise, for the use of cars, irrespective of damages or penalties provided in this subchapter, which may be different for different railroads and different traffic and localities to be paid by shippers for the detention or use of cars, either in loading or unloading or paid by the railroads for failing in a reasonable time to furnish cars or to make delivery of loaded cars, subject to the penalties and damages provided in §§ 23-10-432 — 23-10-436 and the rules with respect thereto.
(b) The department, whenever it may deem it necessary in order to secure the prompt transportation of freight and preservation of property, shall be authorized to prescribe the minimum speed at which freight shall be moved when being transported between points within this state, including the time for transfer and delivery between connecting railroads.
(c) It shall be the duty of every such railroad to conform to all the rules and orders of the department made in accordance with this section. The failure of any such railroad company to observe the rules of the department, or to comply with the provisions of this section and §§ 23-10-401, 23-10-432 — 23-10-436, and 23-12-605 as to freight carried wholly within this state, shall be deemed an abuse subject to correction by the department and shall subject the railroad company to the penalties provided in §§ 23-10-432 — 23-10-436.
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23-10-401. Definition for §§ 23-10-432 — 23-10-437 and 23-12-605.
As used in §§ 23-10-432 — 23-10-437 and 23-12-605, unless the context otherwise requires, “shipper” means any person, firm, or corporation tendering freight for shipment and any consignor or consignee of any bill of lading, or other person, firm, or corporation having the right of a consignor or consignee.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-10-401
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23-10-432. Duty to furnish cars — Reasonable time for requesting cars.
It shall be deemed, prima facie, a reasonable time within which to order cars that any shipper shall give notice thereof to the station agent at the place of shipment, or in his or her absence to the nearest station agent of the railroad company to which the application is made, three (3) days before a shipment of five (5) cars or fewer, and five (5) days for fewer than ten (10) but more than five (5) cars, and eight (8) days for ten (10) cars or more. It shall be the duty of the railroad companies to furnish their station agents with printed blanks upon which shippers may make application for their cars. However, nothing in this section and §§ 23-10-401, 23-10-433 — 23-10-437, and 23-12-605 shall be construed to exempt any railroad company from the obligation to furnish cars for shipment without the written notice, but it shall only be subject to the penalties of §§ 23-10-434 — 23-10-437 for failure to furnish cars to shippers where notice thereof shall be given in writing or, in case of shipment of freight wholly between points in this state, then in accordance with the rules of the Arkansas Department of Transportation.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-10-432
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23-10-436. Penalty for gross negligence in not furnishing or exchanging cars — Fee of prosecuting attorney.
(a)(1) Every railroad company which willfully, by its own gross negligence or by the gross negligence of its agents having charge and management of the matter of furnishing cars, fails or refuses to furnish or exchange cars as provided for in this section and §§ 23-10-401, 23-10-432 — 23-10-435, 23-10-437, and 23-12-605 or to transport or deliver the cars within the time prescribed by the Arkansas Department of Transportation as to freight carried between points wholly within this state, or if not so prescribed, then within a reasonable time, shall, in addition to other liabilities provided for in this section and §§ 23-10-401, 23-10-432 — 23-10-435, 23-10-437, and 23-12-605 forfeit to the State of Arkansas, for each of the violations, not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).
(2) Each day of failure or neglect as to each car which the railroad company by willful or gross negligence fails or refuses to furnish or exchange shall be treated as a separate offense.
(b)(1) Penalties are to be recovered in an action instituted by the department through the prosecuting attorney of the proper district.
(2) No such suit shall be dismissed or compromised without the consent of the court and the department.
(3)(A) The prosecuting attorney shall be allowed a fee by the court not to exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount collected.
(B) If any prosecuting attorney neglects for fifteen (15) days after notice to bring suit, the department may employ some other attorney at law to bring the suit, who shall be allowed a fee therefor to be fixed by the court, not to exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount collected, and in s
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-10-436
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 23-10-436. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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23-12-605. Union passengers or freight depots.
(a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall have power to require the building and maintaining of union passenger or freight depots, by two (2) or more railroads in any city of the first class or city of the second class in this state, when the business and conditions in the city justify or require such facilities.
(b) The making of any order for the erection and maintaining of any such union passenger or freight depots, or both, shall be prima facie evidence of the need for the facility and reasonableness of the requirement.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-12-605
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 23-12-605. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.