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Art. 6278. [6424] [4368] OFFICERS TO KEEP OFFICES IN 
TEXAS.  Railroad companies shall keep and maintain at the place 
within this State where its general offices are located the office 
of its president, or vice-president, secretary, treasurer, local 
treasurer, auditor, general freight agent, traffic manager, 
general manager, general superintendent, general passenger and 
ticket agent, chief engineer, superintendent of motive power and 
machinery, master mechanic, master of transportation, fuel agent, 
general claim agent;  and each one of its general offices shall be 
so kept and maintained by whatever name it is known, and the persons 
who perform the duties of said general offices, by whatever name 
known, shall keep and maintain their offices at the place where said 
general offices are required to be located and maintained;  and the 
persons holding said general offices shall reside at the place and 
keep and maintain their offices at the place where said general 
offices are required by law to be kept and maintained.  If the 
duties of any of the above named offices are performed by any 
person, but his position is called by a different name, said 
railroad company shall maintain said offices at the place where its 
general Texas offices are kept and maintained, as required by this 
chapter.  The name of the general offices shall not be understood to 
allow the railroad company to have any of the offices usually known 
as general offices at any other place than the one at which it is 
required to keep its general offices;  and each railroad is hereby 
required to have and maintain its general offices at the place named 
herein.  Where the principal shops of a company are situated on its 
line in the State, at a place other than where its general offices 
are located, the superintendent of motive power and machinery, 
master mechanic, either or both, may have his office and residence 
at such place where such principal shops are located;  provided, 
that the Railroad Commission of Texas, where it is made to appear 
that any officer, other than the general officers of any company, 
can more conveniently perform his duties by residing at some place 
on the line in Texas other than the place where the general offices 
are situated, may by an order entered on its record, authorize any 
such officer to so reside and keep his office at such place.

Acts 1889, p. 130; G.L. vol. 9, p. 1158;  Acts 1899, p. 177.                  

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