Arkansas Code Title 23, Subtitle 1, Chapter 4, Subchapter 6 - Railroads and Other Carriers Generally

• § 23-4-601 - Construction of §§ 23-4-602, 23-4-608 -- 23-4-610, 23-4-615, 23-4-706, 23-10-301, and 23-11-101.
  Nothing in §§ 23-4-602, 23-4-608 -- 23-4-610, 23-4-615, 23-4-706, 23-10-301, and 23-11-101 shall be so construed as to amend or repeal any act prior...
• § 23-4-602 - Violations of §§ 23-4-601, 23-4-608 -- 23-4-610, 23-4-615, 23-4-706, 23-10-301, and 23-11-101, Tariff of Charges, or Rules of Department -- Penalties -- Recovery.
  (a) If any person or corporation operating a railroad or express company in this state or any receiver, trustee, or lessee of any such...
• § 23-4-603 - Railroads -- Charges to Be Reasonable and Just.
  All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property on any railroad in this state,...
• § 23-4-604 - Railroads and Express Companies -- Schedule of Rates.
  (a) In order to ascertain what the regular charge of those companies are, all railroad and express companies doing business in this state are...
• § 23-4-605 - Railroads and Express Companies -- Overcharging Prohibited.
  (a) All agents of railroad and express companies doing business in this state are prohibited from charging, collecting, or receiving pay for any goods,...
• § 23-4-606 - Continuous Railroad Lines.
  (a) In all cases where there is, by physical connection of railroads, a continuous line of railway communication between railroad stations within this state,...
• § 23-4-607 - Connecting Railroad Lines -- Division of Charges.
  If any two (2) or more connecting lines of railroad in this state fail to agree upon a fair and just division of the...
• § 23-4-608 - Penalties for Violations of §§ 23-4-606 and 23-4-607 -- Actions to Recover Penalties.
  (a) If any person or corporation operating a railroad or express company in this state, or any receiver, trustee, or lessee of any such...
• § 23-4-609 - Connecting Railroad Lines Under One Management.
  (a) Where in this state two (2) or more connecting lines of railroad are operated by, or under, one (1) management or company, or...
• § 23-4-610 - Railroads -- Through-Freight Rates and Regulations.
  (a) The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department shall have power, and it is its duty, to investigate all through-freight rates and regulations on...
• § 23-4-611 - Railroads -- Short Lines.
  (a) Railroad companies having roads not exceeding fifty (50) miles in length may charge for loading, carrying, and unloading freights at a rate of...
• § 23-4-612 - Railroads -- Switching Charges on Coal Cars.
  (a) When any railroad in Arkansas moves coal in car lots from one (1) switch or spur on its line to a connecting line...
• § 23-4-613 - Railroads -- Bills of Lading.
  (a) It shall be unlawful for any railroad company in this state or its officers, agents, or employees to charge and collect or to...
• § 23-4-614 - Railroads -- Freight Rates on Crushed Stone, Sand, and Gravel.
  (a) The maximum rates which any corporation, officer of court, trustee, person, or association of persons operating any railroad line in this state shall...
• § 23-4-615 - Railroads -- Sleeping Car Tariffs.
  The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department is authorized and it is its duty to adopt, change, or make reasonable and just rates, charges,...
• § 23-4-616 - Railroads -- Additional Charge for Stopping At Other Than Regular Station.
  Any railroad company may charge the sum of twenty-five cents (25cent(s)) for the carriage of any passenger who may get on or off a...
• § 23-4-617 - Railroads -- Passengers Without Tickets.
  All passengers who may fail to procure regular fare tickets shall be transported over all railroads in this state at the same rate and...
• § 23-4-618 - Railroads -- Ejection of Passengers Upon Failure to Pay Fare.
  If any passenger shall refuse to pay his or her fare or toll, it shall be lawful for the conductor of the train and...
• § 23-4-619 - Railroads -- Rate Reductions.
  When any railroad shall be opened for use, the General Assembly may, from time to time, alter or reduce the rates of toll, fare,...
• § 23-4-620 - Notice of Rate Changes.
  (a) Unless the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department otherwise orders, no public utility shall make any change in any rate duly established under...
• § 23-4-621 - Rate Changes to Be Reflected in Schedules.
  All proposed changes shall be shown by filing new schedules or shall be plainly indicated upon schedules filed and in force at the time...
• § 23-4-622 - Investigation of Rate Changes.
  Whenever there is filed with the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department by any public utility any schedule stating a new rate, the department,...
• § 23-4-623 - Suspension of Proposed Rates.
  Pending its investigation and the decision thereon, the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department by written order at any time before the new rate...
• § 23-4-624 - Interim Implementation of Suspended Rates.
  (a) If the public utility contends that an immediate and impelling necessity exists for the requested rate increase, a petition may be filed with...
• § 23-4-625 - Rate Increase Not Effective Until Final Order.
  Unless the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department finds an immediate and impelling necessity exists or if the department fails to enter a timely...
• § 23-4-626 - Authority of Department to Fix Rates -- Apportionment of Increase.
  (a) If, after the investigation and hearing thereon, the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department finds the new rate to be unjust, unreasonable, discriminatory,...
• § 23-4-627 - Failure of Department to Reach Timely Decision -- Conditional Implementation of Suspended Rates.
  In the event no final rate determination has been made upon the schedule for new rates within ten (10) months after the date the...
• § 23-4-628 - Issuance of Commission's Order -- Rates to Be Collected.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act, upon issuance of the findings and order of the Arkansas Public Service Commission as prescribed in §...
• § 23-4-629 - Surcharge to Collect Rates Increased by Courts.
  (a) In the event that the rates set in the order of the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department subsequently are determined to have...
• § 23-4-630 - Refunds of Excessive Rate Collections Under Bond.
  In the event a public utility shall have implemented under bond or other arrangements as a matter involving an immediate and impelling necessity pursuant...
• § 23-4-631 - Refunds of Excessive Bonded Collections -- Order Not Stayed During Rehearing.
  An application for rehearing pursuant to § 23-2-422 filed by a party aggrieved by the final order of the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation...
• § 23-4-632 - Surcharge to Collect Excessive Refunds.
  In the event that the amount of refunds ordered by the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department in its final order is subsequently determined...
• § 23-4-633 - Petition for Mandamus.
  If the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department order is not issued before the expiration of the period of suspension, the filed rates shall...
• § 23-4-634 - Suit to Compel Refunds -- Proceeds.
  (a) If the public utility fails to make refunds within thirty (30) days after the effective date of the order requiring such refunds, the...
• § 23-4-635 - Changes in Rates by Common Carriers.
  (a) No change shall be made in the rates, fares, and charges or joint rates, fares, and charges which have been filed with the...
• § 23-4-636 - [Repealed.]
• § 23-4-637 - Discriminatory Interterritorial Freight Rates.
  (a) The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department is vested with authority to formulate and adopt plans for a complete and thorough study of...

Last modified: November 15, 2016