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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
§ 23-10-444. Shipments of coal, corn, or cottonseed -- Duty to weigh and furnish correct weight to consignee -- Penalty
Universal Citation: AR Code § 23-10-444 (2017)
- (a) All railroads operating in this state are required to keep and maintain track or railroad scales at all stations or depots where as many as one hundred (100) cars of coal, corn, or cottonseed are received annually by the railroad.
- (b) The railroads are required, at the request of the consignee of a carload of coal, to properly weigh each and every car after the car has reached its destination. The railroad shall furnish to each consignee, upon request, by a written certificate of the weighman, the correct weight of each carload of coal received by the consignee within one (1) day after the car has reached its destination.
- (c) No consignee shall be required to pay any freight or other railroad charge until furnished with the weights, nor pay any greater amount of freight than is shown by the certificate.
- (d) Any railroad in this state failing or refusing to comply with any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), to be paid to the county in which the point of destination lies, for every failure or refusal to comply with the provisions of this section. Each day upon which it may refuse or fail to comply with this section shall constitute a separate offense.
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