Chapter 280. To amend section 22 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended
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CHAP. 280.— An Act To amend section 22 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended. August 18, 1922. [[S. 848](/us/bill/67/s/848).] [[Public, No. 281](/us/pl/67/281).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section 22 of the InterstateInterstate commerce regulations. Vol. 25, p. 862. Vol. 28, p. 644, amended. Commerce Act, as amended, is amended by inserting “(1)” after the section number at the beginning of such section and by adding to the section two new paragraphs, to read as follows:
" “(2) The commission is directed to require, after notice and hearing,Interchangeable mileage tickets. Carriers by rail required to issue. each carrier by rail, subject to this Act, to issue at such offices as may be prescribed by the commission interchangeable mileage or scrip coupon tickets at just and reasonable rates, good for passenger carriage upon the passenger trains of all earners by rail subject to this Act. The commission may in its discretion exempt from theDiscretionary exemption. provisions of this amendatory Act either in whole or in part any carrier where the particular circumstances shown to the commission shall justify such exemption to be made.
Such tickets may be required to be issued in such denominations as the commission may prescribe. Before making any order requiring the issuance of anyRegulations, etc., to be prescribed. such tickets the commission shall make and publish such reasonable rules and regulations for their issuance and use as in its judgment the public interest demands; and especially it shall prescribe whetherTransfers, etc. such tickets are transferrable or nontransferrable, and if the latter, what identification may be required; and especially, also to what baggage privileges the lawful holders of such tickets are entitled.
“(3) Any carrier which, through the act of any agent or employee,Penalty for refusal to issue or accept, etc. willfully refuses to issue or accept any such ticket demanded or presented under the lawful requirements of this Act, or willfully refuses to conform to the rules and regulations lawfully made and published by the commission hereunder, or any person who shall willfully offer for sale or carriage any such ticket contrary to the said rules and regulations shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall bo fined not to exceed $1,000.
” " Approved, August 18, 1922.