CHAPTER 18. CONDUCTOR'S POLICE POWER
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Chapter 18. Conductor's Police Power
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Authority
Sec. 1. The conductors of all trains carrying passengers within this
state shall be invested with police powers while on duty on their
respective trains.
(Formerly: Acts 1875, c.84, s.1.)
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Ejection of passengers; refund of fare
Sec. 2. When any passenger shall be guilty of disorderly conduct,
or use any obscene language, or play any games of cards or chance
for money upon any passenger trains, the conductor of such train is
hereby authorized to stop his train at any place where such offense
has been committed, and eject such passenger from the train, using
only such force as may be necessary to accomplish such removal,
and may command the assistance of the employees of the railroad
company to assist in such removal; but, before doing so, he shall
tender to such passenger such proportion of the fare he has paid as
the distance he then is from the place to which he has paid his fare
bears to the whole distance for which he has paid his fare.
(Formerly: Acts 1875, c.84, s.2.)
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Arrest of passenger; delivery before court; affidavit
Sec. 3. When any passenger commits a crime upon any passenger
train, the conductor of the train may arrest the passenger and take
him before a court in the county in which the crime is committed,
and file an affidavit charging him with the crime.
(Formerly: Acts 1875, c.84, s.3.) As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2,
SEC.823.