Chapter 143. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and si
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CHAP. 143.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six. April 13, 1908.[[S. 4260](/us/bill/70/s/4260).][[Public, No. 95.](/us/pl/70/95)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That paragraph four of sectionInterstate Commerce regulations.Vol. 34, p. 584.Vol. 24, p. 379. one of an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended so that said paragraph as so amended will read as follows:
“No common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall,Passes prohibited.Vol. 34, p. 584, amended. after January first, nineteen hundred and seven, directly or indirectly, issue or give any interstate free ticket, free pass, or free transportation for passengers, except to its employees and their families, itsExceptions. officers, agents, surgeons, physicians, and attorneys at law; to ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of railroad Young Men’s Christian Associations, inmates of hospitals and charitable and eleemosynary institutions, and persons exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work; to indigent, destitute, and homeless persons, and to such persons when transported by charitable societies or hospitals, and the necessary agents employed in such transportation; to inmates of the National Homes or State Homes for Disabled Volunteer Sol 61 diers, and of Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Homes, including those about to enter and those returning home after discharge and boards of managers of such Homes; to necessary care takers of live stock, poultry, and fruit; to employees on sleeping cars, express cars, and to linemen of telegraph and telephone companies; to railway mail service employees, post-office inspectors, customs inspectors, and immigration inspectors; to newsboys on trains, baggage agents, witnesses attending any legal investigation in which the common carrier is interested, persons injured in wrecks and physicians and nurses attending such persons: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Interchange for employees, etc.
That this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers, agents, and employees of common carriers, and their families; nor to prohibit any common carrier from carrying passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation: *Provided further*,Furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated employees, etc., included.Vol. 34, p. 585, amended. That the term ‘ employees’ as used in this paragraph shall include furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated employees, persons who have become disabled or infirm in the service of any such common carrier, and the remains of a person killed in the employment of a carrier and ex-employees traveling for the purpose of entering the service of any such common carrier; and the term ‘families’ as used in this paragraphMeaning of term “families.” shall include the families of those persons named in this proviso, also the families of persons killed while in the service of any such common carrier.
Any common carrier violating this provision shall bePenalty. deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and for each offense, on conviction, shall pay to the United States a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, and any person, other than the persons excepted in this provision, who uses any such interstate free ticket, free pass, or free transportation shall be subject to a like penalty. Jurisdiction of offenses under this provision shall be the sameJurisdiction.Vol. 32, p. 847. as that provided for offenses in an Act entitled ‘An Act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States,’ approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and any amendment thereof.
” Approved, April 13, 1908.