389.440. 1. Every individual, company or corporation owning, managing or operating, or who may hereafter own, manage or operate any railroad or part of a railroad over bridges or through tunnels, as well as elsewhere, in this state, who carry passengers or whose duty it is to carry livestock as a common carrier, are hereby required to furnish to all shippers of livestock, having a right to accompany the same, a caboose or other suitable car for the transportation of such shipper or shippers to the actual place of unloading such shipments.
2. And said owners or shippers shall be carried and furnished free transportation to the place of destination and return; provided, that only one man or person shall be carried free of charge for each consignment or shipment; and be it further provided, that all such cabooses or cars on such trains shall be furnished with a toilet room for the accommodation of passengers.
3. Any railroad, corporation or company doing business in this state refusing or failing to comply with the requirements of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each day's negligence or refusing to comply with the requirements of this section after the enactment and passage of the same as required by law, and all moneys arising as such fine shall revert to the public school fund of this state.
(RSMo 1939 § 5209)Prior revisions: 1929 § 4751; 1919 § 9938; 1909 § 3135
Missouri General Assembly