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Art. 6279. [6425] [4369] FORFEITURE.  Each railroad company 
chartered by this State, or owning, operating, or controlling any 
line of railroad within this State, which shall violate any 
provision of this chapter shall forfeit the charter by which it 
operates its railroad in Texas to the State of Texas.  The Attorney 
General shall, upon the application of an interested party, or on 
his own motion, proceed at once against every offending railroad 
company owning, operating or controlling any line of railway within 
this State and violating any provision of this law, by quo warranto 
to forfeit the charter of such railroad company.  In addition to 
forfeiting the charter to that part of the railroad situated within 
this State, such offending railroad company shall be subject to a 
penalty of five thousand dollars for each day it violates any 
provision of this chapter;  such penalty to be recovered by suit in 
the name of the State of Texas to be filed by the Attorney General.  
Any money recovered from any railroad company under the provisions 
of this law shall be paid into the State Treasury and become a part 
of the available public free school fund.  A judgment of the court 
forfeiting the charter of a railroad company shall allow six months 
from the date of the judgment within which to comply with this law, 
and if it shall comply within said time no forfeiture shall occur;  
but if it fails to so comply, then the judgment shall be final.

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