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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-3040: Posting bulletins as to late trains.

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  1. Title 58 - PUBLIC UTILITIES, SERVICES AND CARRIERS
  2. CHAPTER 17 The General Railroad Law
  3. ARTICLE 25 Passenger Service

Whenever any passenger train on any railroad in this State shall be more than one half hour behind its schedule time the railroad company shall keep posted at every telegraph station along its line, when a telegraph operator is on duty at such station, the time such train is behind its schedule and shall change such bulletin every quarter hour until such train arrives, stating therein the time such train is behind and the hour at which it is expected to arrive. But such bulletins shall not be required to be posted at any station until one half hour before the regular schedule time at which such train is to arrive at such station. Any railroad company which shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for each and every such refusal or neglect, such sum to be sued for and recovered by any person aggrieved in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such refusal or neglect occurs.

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