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New York Railroad Law Section 66 - Checks For Baggage.

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    § 66.  Checks  for baggage. A check, made of some proper substance of
  convenient size and form, plainly stamped with  numbers,  and  furnished
  with  a  convenient  strap  or other appendage for attaching to baggage,
  shall be affixed to every piece or parcel  of  baggage  when  taken  for
  transportation  for  a  passenger  by  the  agent  or  employee  of such
  corporation, if there is a handle, loop or  fixture  therefor  upon  the
  piece  or  parcel  of  baggage,  and  a  duplicate  thereof given to the
  passenger or person delivering the same  to  him.    If  such  check  be
  refused  on demand the corporation shall pay to the passenger the sum of
  ten dollars, and no fare shall be collected or received from him; and if
  he shall have paid his fare it shall be refunded to him by the conductor
  in charge of  the  train.  Such  baggage  shall  be  delivered,  without
  unnecessary  delay, to the passenger or any person acting in his behalf,
  at the place to which it was to be transported, where the  cars  usually
  stop, or at any other regular intermediate stopping place upon notice to
  the  baggage-master  in  charge of baggage on the train of not less than
  thirty minutes, upon presentation of such duplicate check to the officer
  or agent of the railroad corporation, or of any  corporation,  over  any
  portion  of  whose road it was transported. Bicycles are hereby declared
  to be and be deemed baggage for the purposes of this article  and  shall
  be  transported  as  baggage for passengers by railroad corporations and
  subject to the same liabilities, and no such passenger shall be required
  to crate,  cover  or  otherwise  protect  any  such  bicycle;  provided,
  however, that a railroad corporation shall not be required to transport,
  under the provisions of this section, more than one bicycle for a single
  person.

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