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37-2-111
Section 37-2-111 Union stations. Any two or more railroads which enter any city or town may
be required, when practicable, or when the necessities of the case in the judgment of the
Public Service Commission demand it, to have and maintain one common or union passenger station
for the security, accommodation, and convenience of the traveling public, and to unite in
the joint undertaking and expense of erecting, constructing, and maintaining such union passenger
station commensurate with the business and revenue of such railroad companies or corporations,
on such terms, regulations, provisions, and conditions as the Public Service Commission may
prescribe. Any company failing to comply with the orders of the Public Service Commission
shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $1,000.00 nor more than $10,000.00, for every
six months in default, to be recovered by the state. (Code 1907, §5545; Code 1923, §10042;
Code 1940, T. 48, §189.)...
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37-2-110
Section 37-2-110 Duty of railroad to provide accommodations generally. Every railroad company
in this state, on the order of the Public Service Commission, shall provide, construct and
maintain adequate depots and depot buildings for the accommodation of passengers, where public
necessity demands it and the revenue received at such point will be sufficient to justify
it. Said railroad company, for the comfort and accommodation of its passengers, must have,
when required by the Public Service Commission, at each of the passenger stations along the
line of railroad operated by such company, sufficient sitting or waiting rooms, to be determined
by the commission, for passengers waiting for trains, having regard to sex, which shall be
suitably heated in cold weather, and supplied with sufficient fresh drinking water, when passengers
waiting for trains are present, and with sufficient and comfortable chairs or seats; and connected
therewith a sufficient number of comfortable privies, or...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall
execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and
the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast
Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly
agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry,
and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and
northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain
railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate
Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion,
or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II.
This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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10A-21-2.04
Section 10A-21-2.04 Condemnation for rights-of-way or easements by mining, manufacturing, industrial,
power, and quarrying companies. (a) Every mining, manufacturing, industrial, power, and quarrying
corporation or company may acquire by condemnation rights-of-way or easements over or across
the lands or easements of others for ways and rights-of-way on or under which it may erect
or construct and operate railways, tramways, pipelines, transmission lines, cables, ways,
roads, and underground passages not exceeding 100 feet in width for the purpose of connecting
any part of its lands, works, plants, mines, lines, or system with any other part thereof,
with any public road, railroad, navigable water, with the mines, lands, works, plants, lines,
or system of any other such company, corporation, or owner or with any shipping, storage,
delivery, receiving, or distributing point and for the purpose of transporting or transmitting
any materials, equipment, or products used by or mined,...
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37-3-20
Section 37-3-20 Tariffs of common carriers. (a) Every common carrier by motor vehicle shall
file with the commission and keep open to the public inspection tariffs showing all the rates,
fares and charges for transportation and all services in connection therewith of passengers
or property in intrastate commerce in the State of Alabama between points on its own route
and between points on its own route and points on the route of any other such carrier, or
on the route of any common carrier by railroad or express, or water, when a through route
and route and joint rate shall have been established. Such rates, fares and charges shall
be stated in terms of lawful money of the United States. The tariffs required by this section
shall be published, filed and posted in such form and manner and shall contain such information
as the commission by reasonable regulation shall prescribe; and the commission is authorized
to reject any tariff filed with it which is not in consonance with this...
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4-3-47
Section 4-3-47 Powers of authority generally. The authority shall have the following powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time (which may be
in perpetuity) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued in its
own name in civil actions, excepting actions in tort against the authority; (3) To adopt and
make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt and alter bylaws
for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business; (5) To acquire, receive, take
and hold, whether by purchase, option to purchase, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, property
of every description, whether real, personal or mixed, whether in one or more counties and
whether within or without the corporate limits of any authorizing subdivision, and to manage
said property and to develop any property and to sell, exchange, lease or...
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37-2-3
Section 37-2-3 Duty of commission to supervise, regulate, and control transportation companies.
The Public Service Commission is charged with the duty of supervising, regulating and controlling
all transportation companies doing business in this state, in all matters relating to the
performance of their public duties and their charges therefor, and of correcting abuses therein
by such companies, and the commission shall, from time to time, prescribe and enforce against
said transportation companies, in the manner authorized in this title, such rates, charges,
classifications of freight, storage, demurrage and car service charges, rules and regulations,
and shall require them to establish and maintain all such public service facilities and conveniences
as may be reasonable and just, which said rates, charges, classifications, rules, regulations
and requirements the commission may, from time to time, alter or amend. All rates, charges,
classifications, rules and regulations adopted or...
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37-2-132
Section 37-2-132 Connection of tracks and interchange of traffic - Railroads running to or
through same town or city. When two or more railroad companies have roads running to or through
the same town or city, or near enough thereto to receive freight traffic from said town or
city, they shall, when required by an order of the Public Service Commission, make and maintain
a physical connection between their respective tracks, where the tracks are of the same gauge,
at such point in or near said town or city as the commission shall require, so that cars may
be transferred from the one road to the other, and there may be an interchange of traffic
between them, where such connection, in the judgment of the Public Service Commission, is
reasonably practicable and can be put in with safety, and will furnish sufficient business
to justify the construction and maintenance of the same where rights-of-way can be obtained
by condemnation or otherwise, on terms deemed reasonable by the Public...
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10A-21-2.08
Section 10A-21-2.08 Condemnation of lands for depots, yards, and tracks by railroads. Railroads
or railroad companies operating in this state may acquire by condemnation proceedings, in
the mode prescribed by law, lands for depots, freight yards, and team tracks; but no condemnation
proceeding shall be begun for either of those purposes until an application for permission
to bring the condemnation proceeding has first been submitted to, and the same approved by,
the Public Service Commission of Alabama. Should the lands not be used for the purposes of
condemnation within one year from the date of their condemnation or should the lands be abandoned
for the use condemned or be used for purposes not authorized by the condemnation, the same
shall revert to the owner or owners or his, her, or their heirs. (Code 1907, §3492; Code
1923, §7026; Code 1940, T. 10, §81; §10-5-7 amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p.
967, §358.)...
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37-2-31
Section 37-2-31 Duty to receive or transport freight; liability for failure or delay. Every
transportation company subject to the provisions of this chapter, its agents or officers,
whose duty it is to receive freights, shall receive all articles of the nature and kind received
by said companies for transportation whenever tendered at a regular station at proper hours
and in good shipping condition, according to reasonable rules prescribed by the transportation
company or the Public Service Commission, and every loaded car tendered at a sidetrack or
any warehouse connected with the railroad by a siding, and shall forward the same without
delay and within a reasonable time to the point of destination, under and in compliance with
such reasonable rules, regulations and requirements as may be prescribed by the Public Service
Commission or by law, and, upon the failure of any such railroad company or other transportation
company doing business in this state to so receive and so transport...
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