Case Information

*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS

AUSTIN

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;dcretary, Bailroad Coniaisslon of Texae

AliE t1n ) Texae

imar 51rI

Oplnlon Eo.

a61 are0t of Inters co rce’ Aot on i ovs.Bloos or xae 9 tetuto, Art1 e .006, fif&% Statutes. f the Texas

Comlasion, would ha titl-Ease :itatute.

partlouiariy wheth

Comeroe Act off8

In Texas under Ar

ot Texas to Issue ves, widors cr depen- dents or e~$oyees who are not

o!!panies. This 0plnlon . o-2300, In which we vi.1 Ststutss or Texas, tree transportation or me to lnterst~ate carriers, 9w3e hfbitud by the 15terSt3ta Co,meroe spoified fnetanoeer.” See Sscond hosenq3ra in Glwpin.; Car Eertha Or :.:eotione, l&m. C. . I 530, SW. ‘The Interntnrc Co:~erce Coimi.s;;ion, while it is loharged %ltth the exeoutioli crnd enforoeneot of the act*

"'Ghore the Cangrew has exprsnsZy enuzerstod special c1aeeoo or DsFsOn5 or tl;kXY3 tkat I?.S!i be or IlU.Mt bo es-

~cncrrtl pro- eclarp3 tha Ir:olud:rr L?A mod lc the :::e muat therefore look to t!io 7rovi3ions of the Inter8tot0 COW:ESCe Aiot to d0terjiinQ shut jx3rsom my receive fret traaaportatfan from interstute corriors.

Sbaaotion (2) of Saoticn 1 or' the Interstate iomzeros Aot (Fftle 49, Vnited State5 Code) proviQoa that the act shall up>ly to thu "trunsportatiou or pasoangers

within the United StatQs", but not "(a) TO ,tbie tra5SpOr- la&l of passengers . . . wholly within one atate , , .P

Subesction (71 of Section 1 of tha Snteretste domeroe hot providae in part as foll0wo:

*Ko oomzwn aarrler subjsot to the protiaione 0P thta ohagter, shall, directly or Zndirsotly, i&sue or glee any interstate free ticffst, fret T~ae, or free tranaoortation for passengers, except to its eF$loyees and their famflieo, it5 offfccrn, acents,, sur,reons, Phpi? CfPJ13 ) EC(? attornq-o at Zax; , . .

Vrootded furthor, ?bet the terC Vemployeeev as pen- used in tPLs pczc~,rnp'h ahalL Lacl~uZe Curlou&zA, olonad, uria 6u~0~a~,ufma ~~~103305,~ . . ',,

". c . &nd tl;e tarm 'fmlllea' an ussd in this parridraph oh&l. fnol~zde t9 fcnllios of those persons nmod lr, t::la proviso,, cl50 the f~.millcs of gor5ona Mllsd, a.rA ihs *.~ldws during widowhood and minor ohildren &~irq minority of :ierrono who died, ~klle in the service of any 3uch cmmon oar~ior.'~

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yr. c. F. Pet0t, Page 3

lo $WHW3 City Southern “nailroad Cornpuny v. Van Zantl gbo 6. S;, 459, th% &pr%38 Court Of tii% U&ted 468, ;tatee said with rererecoe to tJii free transportation paragraph of the Intoratate Caimerce Act I

*Th% prorision tcr passes, with its &motion tn penalties, Ss a regulation of :ntsrstats aomeroe, to the oompletion of which the d%t%rmication of the effect Se thick, of the pasaes is moemary. therefore, ire0 pasaee 13 their %ntirety are taken charge of, not only the12 gtm!is%ion and use, but the linitatfons a.?d condo- tiona upon their uses or to put it another way, aad to sgeoiallz%, the relatfor. of their usera to the railroad which issued them, the fast and maaur% of rosponeiblllty the railroad incurs by their isme, and the extent or the right the perscm to whom issued aoqulree; are taken Qharge or**

be to intrastate tranlsportation of passengere, how%~er, the state law with referance to tree pa%%ea still New York Central Railroad Co. F. Kohr;ee, 252 U. S. ap;li%e.

152.

You are therefore advised that aa to intrastate or passan$yuv , Article 4000 of the Rev&sod transportation Civil Statutes bf Texas Ooatrols the ladmanos of fief trans- pOrtation m’ paer~ee by railroads,

a8 stated in ou?? opinion AI) to interGate transportation of panoengera, No. o-23oc. the provislons qf th% Interstate Commoe Act oontrol, and the Texas Anti-Eaes Statute is not applicable.

Very truly your0