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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries
Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities and Carriers
Chapter 10 - Transportation of Passengers and Freight Generally
Subchapter 4 - Freight -- Railroads
§ 23-10-440. Forwarding perishable freight -- Penalty for failure
Universal Citation: AR Code § 23-10-440 (2017)
- (a)
- (1) Whenever freight of a character similar to that described in § 23-10-438 is tendered to a railroad company in carload lots or less, and the correct shipping instruction is given, the railroad agent must immediately receive the freight for shipment and issue bills of lading for it.
- (2) When such shipments have been received by any railroad company, they shall be started on the first suitable train within twelve (12) hours and shall be carried forward at a rate of not less than two hundred (200) miles per day of twenty-four (24) hours.
- (b) Any railroad company failing to comply with this section shall forfeit to the shipper double the damages he or she may sustain by reason of the failure.
- (c) In cases of wrecks, washouts, strikes, and other calamities over which railroad companies have no control, this section shall not apply, but the burden shall be on the railroad company to prove the existence of any such facts to justify such a failure.
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