2012 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 37 - PUBLIC UTILITIES
CHAPTER 3 - RATES, INTERCHANGE OF SERVICES AND SAFETY
37-3-105. Free or reduced rates of transportation to certain classes of persons authorized.

Nothing in this act shall prohibit any public utility from furnishing free or reduced rate of transportation of the person or property over its line to officers, attorneys, surgeons, directors or employees of such public utility or dependent members of their families, or to former employees of such public utility, or dependent members of their families where such employees are pensioned or have become disabled in the service of such public utility or are unable from physical qualifications to continue in such service; or to ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of 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 or state homes for disabled volunteer soldiers, and of soldiers' and sailors' homes, including those about to enter and those returning home after discharge; to state adjutant of the Grand Army of the Republic, to state adjutant of the Spanish-American War Veterans, and to the department commander, department chairman, child welfare committee, and the state adjutant of the American Legion, to the department commander and department adjutant and rehabilitation officer of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War; to the department commander and department adjutant and service officer of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States; to necessary caretakers of livestock, poultry, milk and fruit, and fish and spawn for use in stocking public streams; to employees on sleeping cars and express cars, and to linemen of telegraph and telephone companies; to railway mail service employees, post office inspectors, custom inspectors, and immigration inspectors; to instructors of the state militia, to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of counties in which, into which, or through which such public utility is operated; to the state pure food commissioner, state game and fish commissioner, members of the state game and fish commission and chief assistant state game and fish commissioner and state veterinarian (no person so carried shall be paid mileage by the state for such transportation); to chiefs of police of cities in which, into which, or through which such public utility is operated; 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; nor prohibit the exchange of transportation of the persons or of property or of service by such public utility with officers, attorneys, surgeons, directors, or employees of other public utilities or their families, nor to prohibit any common carrier from carrying passengers or property free with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence or other calamitous visitation, or in case of blockade, wreck or interrupted service, nor to prevent a common carrier from furnishing a special train or a special car or cars and transportation thereon free of charge for the benefit of any state institution, nor to prevent the furnishing of a special train or car or cars and transportation thereon free of charge for the purpose or with the object of demonstrating agricultural, manufacturing or business methods; and provided further, that nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the privilege of passes or franks, or the exchange thereof with each other, for the officers, agents, employees, surgeons, physicians and attorneys and their families of telegraph, telephone and cable lines, and the officers, agents, employees, surgeons, physicians and attorneys and their families of other public utilities subject to the provisions of this act; provided, further, that the term "employees" as used in this paragraph [section] shall include furloughed, pensioned and superannuated employees, persons who have become disabled or infirm in the service of such public utilities, 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 such public utilities; and the term "families" as used in this paragraph [section] shall include the families of those persons named in this proviso, also the families of persons killed, and the widows, during widowhood, and minor children, during the minority, of persons who died while in the service of any such public utility. Any public utility violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense, on conviction, shall pay to the state of Wyoming a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), nor more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), and any person, other than the persons excepted in the provision, who uses any such free pass or free transportation, shall be subject to like penalty.