37-2-1
Section 37-2-1 "Transportation company" defined. The term "transportation company" shall mean and include every person not engaged solely in interstate commerce or business that now or may hereafter own, operate, lease, manage or control, as common carriers or for hire: Any railroad or part of a railroad in this state or any cars or other equipment used thereon, or bridges, terminals or sidetracks used in connection therewith, whether owned by such railroad or otherwise; any express companies; any car companies; any sleeping car companies; any steamboat or steam packet company or common carrier for hire by water regardless of the propelling power used; any railroad depot or terminal station; any telegraph line; any telephone line; any pipeline for the transportation of oil or other commodity, whether the transportation is by pipeline or partly by pipeline and partly by rail, truck or water. This term shall also mean and include two or more transportation companies rendering joint...
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37-2-42
Section 37-2-42 Refund of excessive charges upon submission of expense bill or receipt. Any person, firm or corporation may submit to the commission, by mail or in person, any transportation company expense bill or receipt, showing charges paid for transportation of any property by freight or express for the purpose of having the same examined with respect to the correctness of weights, rates, and charges indicated thereon. Upon receipt of any such expense bill or receipt, the commission shall make such examination as is necessary, and if it shall be found that any such weights, rates or charges are incorrect, the commission shall order the transportation company in error to refund to the person, firm or corporation which submitted such expense bills or receipts any over or excessive charges paid by such person, firm or corporation. The commission shall impose and collect a reasonable charge for the performance of the service required under this section. All funds received from such...
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37-3-15
Section 37-3-15 Licensing and regulation of brokers. (a) No person shall for compensation sell or offer for sale transportation subject to this chapter or shall make any contract, agreement or arrangement to provide, procure, furnish or arrange for such transportation or shall hold himself or itself out by advertisement, solicitation or otherwise as one who sells, provides, procures, contracts or arranges for such transportation, unless such person holds a broker's license issued by the commission to engage in such transactions; provided, that no such person shall engage in transportation subject to this chapter unless he holds a certificate or permit as provided in this chapter. In the execution of any contract agreement or arrangement to sell, provide, procure, furnish or arrange for such transportation, it shall be unlawful for such person to employ any carrier by motor vehicle who or which is not the lawful holder of an effective certificate or permit issued as provided in this...
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40-25-15
Section 40-25-15 Nontaxable sales. (a) A wholesaler or jobber, as defined in Section 40-25-1 and who is duly qualified as such wholesaler or jobber under Section 40-25-16, may sell tobacco products enumerated herein without the Alabama Revenue Stamps affixed thereto; provided, that: Such products are sold and shipped or delivered in interstate commerce to a person outside of this state, and such wholesaler or jobber shall have on file, for a period of three years, subject to inspection by the department, a record of such sale, and also the original purchase order, and a copy of the invoice therefor, and a receipt from a common carrier, contract carrier or post office showing shipment for delivery in such other state, or, if delivered by such dealer to the purchaser at a point outside of the State of Alabama, a receipt showing such delivery in addition to the record, original purchase order and copy of the invoice relating to such sale. (b) Such duly qualified wholesaler or jobber may...
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37-8-23
Section 37-8-23 Charging or collecting higher than lawful rate. Any corporation, partnership, association or person owning or operating a railroad or other utility transporting passengers or property, or officer, servant or agent of any such, who shall knowingly charge or collect a fee or charge at a higher rate for the transportation of passengers or property than prescribed or authorized by law, or fixed by the Public Service Commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $50.00 for each offense. (Code 1923, §5376; Code 1940, T. 48, §426.)...
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37-9-24
Section 37-9-24 Broker's licenses; bond or other security required of brokers; powers of commission as to brokers' accounts, reports and records. (a) No person shall, for compensation, sell or offer for sale transportation subject to this chapter or shall make any contract, agreement or arrangement to provide, procure, furnish or arrange for such transportation or shall hold himself or itself out by advertisement, solicitation or otherwise as one who sells, provides, procures, contracts or arranges for such transportation, unless such person holds a brokers license issued by the commission to engage in such transaction; provided, that no such person shall engage in transportation subject to this chapter unless he or it holds a certificate or permit as provided in this chapter. In the execution of any contract, agreement or arrangement to sell, provide, procure, furnish or arrange for such transportation, it shall be unlawful for such person to employ any air carrier who, or which, is...
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7-7-309
Section 7-7-309 Duty of care; contractual limitation of carrier's liability. (a) A carrier that issues a bill of lading, whether negotiable or nonnegotiable, shall exercise the degree of care in relation to the goods which a reasonably careful person would exercise under similar circumstances. This subsection does not affect any statute, regulation, or rule of law that imposes liability upon a common carrier for damages not caused by its negligence. (b) Damages may be limited by a term in the bill of lading or in a transportation agreement that the carrier's liability may not exceed a value stated in the bill or transportation agreement if the carrier's rates are dependent upon value and the consignor is afforded an opportunity to declare a higher value and the consignor is advised of the opportunity. However, such a limitation is not effective with respect to the carrier's liability for conversion to its own use. (c) Reasonable provisions as to the time and manner of presenting claims...
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28-4-133
Section 28-4-133 Duty of common carriers, etc., to permit examination of books, records, papers, etc., in connection with prosecutions under article, etc. In the prosecutions of violations of this article or any law for the suppression of the evils of intemperance or the promotion of temperance, any common carrier doing business in the State of Alabama or any person engaged in the transportation in the state or making deliveries in this state of the liquors mentioned in Section 28-4-120 or of other prohibited liquors and beverages is required to permit an examination of all his books, records, papers, bills of lading and accounts pertaining to the shipment of such liquors by any officer in this state whose duty it is to prosecute crime or ferret out criminals, when such information is sought for the prosecution of persons charged with or suspected of crime. (Acts 1915, No. 10, p. 39; Code 1923, §4701; Code 1940, T. 29, §170.)...
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2-1-3
Section 2-1-3 Prima facie evidence of possession with intent to sell. The having in possession of any article, substance, material or product, the sale of which is regulated under the provisions of this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce, by any person who manufactures, sells, keeps for sale, offers or exposes for sale, serves, distributes or delivers the same shall be prima facie evidence of having in possession with intent to sell, except, that this section or any of the penalties set forth in this title or other such statute shall not apply to any common carrier when said article, substance, material or product was received by said carrier for transportation in the ordinary course of business and without actual knowledge of the adulteration, misbranding or under standard grade, weight or measure claimed. (Ag. Code 1927, §3; Code 1940,...
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28-3-11
Section 28-3-11 Invoices and receipts to be maintained by persons, firms, etc., selling or shipping goods, merchandise, etc., to persons, firms, etc., in another state or to federal government for army, navy or marine purposes; exemption from taxation goods purchased from Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for export to another country. (a) Where goods, wares, or merchandise enumerated in this chapter are sold or shipped to any person, firm, corporation, or association of persons in another state, the seller or shipper in this state shall make and preserve for three years a duplicate invoice bill, giving the name of the person, firm, corporation, or association of persons to whom shipped, delivered, or sold, the date of sale or shipment, and the quantity of the merchandise sold or shipped. The seller in this state shall have on file a freight, express, or postal receipt for the merchandise showing that the merchandise was turned over to a common carrier engaged in interstate commerce. If...
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