CHAPTER 38. An Act respecting the sale of tickets by Railway, SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as the Passenger Tickets Act. TICKETS AND TICKET AGENTS. Short title. sale of 2. Any railway company, steamboat or ferry company Appointment subject to the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada, or of agents for to which the Railway Act applies, and the Minister of Railways tickets. and Canals, as respects any railway under the control of the › Government of Canada, may appoint, in any city, town or village in Canada, such person or persons as it or he chooses, as agents for the sale of passenger tickets to passengers or persons who desire to travel by the railway, steamboat or ferry of the company employing such agent, or by any Government railway, as the case may be. R.S., c. 110, s. 1; 62-63 V., c. 38, s. 1. ment. 3. The Minister of Railways and Canals, or company, Certificate employing any such agent, shall give him a certificate of his of appointappointment, which shall be under the hand of the Minister of Railways and Canals, or the corporate seal of the company appointing him; and such agent shall keep the same framed To be exor exhibited in some conspicuous part of his office or place of business, where it can be seen and read by those resorting to the office. R.S., c. 110, s. 2. hibited. of foreign 4. Every agent of a foreign railway company doing busi- As to agents ness in Canada shall, before issuing tickets over any Govern- railway comment railway line, or other Canadian railway line, be duly panies. authorized for such purpose by the Minister of Railways and Canals, or by the company, as the case may be, over whose line he desires to issue tickets, in the same manner as is hereinbefore provided in respect of other agents, and shall have and exhibit, in like manner, a certificate from the foreign company he represents. R.S., c. 110, s. 3. 647 5. Name and date to be stamped on ticket. Authorized agents may procure tickets from each other. Act not to affect station agents. Redemption of unused ticket or part of ticket. Where to be redeemed. Time limited. Right of stopping demanded. 5. Every ticket sold by any agent shall have the name of such agent and the date of the sale written or stamped plainly upon it. R.S., c. 110, s. 4. 6. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the duly authorized agent of any company from procuring from the duly authorized agent of any other company, a ticket for a passenger to whom he has sold a ticket to travel over the line or any part thereof for which he is the authorized agent, so as to enable such passenger to travel to the point or junction from which he has previously secured his ticket. R.S., c. 110, s. 5. 7. Nothing in this Act contained respecting the appointment of agents for the sale of tickets shall prevent the station agents of the Minister of Railways and Canals or company, at their stations, and in their ticket offices at such stations, from selling tickets to passengers about to enter upon and travel by railway from the said stations. R.S., c. 110, s. 6. UNUSED TICKETS. 8. The Minister of Railways and Canals, with respect to any Government railway, and every railway company subject. to the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada, or to which the Railway Act applies, as the case may be, shall repay to. every holder of a ticket over any Government railway line or other Canadian railway line, as the case may be, the cost of his ticket, if unused in whole or in part, less the ordinary and regular fare for the distance for which such ticket has been used. 2. Such repayment shall be made at any station or office of the railway or company between and including the points covered by the ticket. 3. The claim for such redemption shall be made within thirty days from the expiration of the time for which the ticket was issued, in accordance with the conditions thereon. R.S., c. 110, s. 9. STOP OVER TICKETS. 9. Every passenger who presents a single journey ticket over may be upon a train within the time for which the conditions printed. upon such ticket and the date shows such ticket to be good for use, may apply to the conductor of such train to have the privilege of stopping over granted, and the time for which the ticket is valid extended. To be granted by conductor. Distance limit. 2. Such privilege and extension of time shall be granted by such conductor on tickets purchased at railway ticket offices in Canada, from one place in Canada to another, or from a place in Canada to a place in the United States. 3. No such passenger shall be entitled to have such time extended for more than two days for every fifty miles of distance to be travelled in Canada. R.S., c. 110, s. 10. OFFENCES AND PENALTIES. 10. Every person who, selling (a) except those authorized as hereinbefore mentioned, sells, Unlawfully or offers for sale any railway, steamboat or ferry passenger tickets. ticket, or pass, ticket, certificate or other instrument, enabling any person or purporting to entitle any person to travel on any one railway, steamboat or ferry, or more than one railway, steamboat or ferry, or on any part of one railway or parts of several railways to which this Act applies; or, (b) issues the unused portion of any ticket, otherwise than Selling unby the presentation of the same for redemption under the used portion provisions of this Act; or, of ticket. of ticket. (c) fraudulently alters, changes or imitates the signature Alteration of the agent or the date written or stamped upon any ticket; is guilty of an offence against this Act and shall, upon summary conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars and not less than twenty Penalty. dollars and costs, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ninety days and not less than ten days, or to both penalty and imprisonment, in the discretion of the justice. R.S., c. 110, ss. 4, 7, 8, 9; 62-63 V., c. 38, s. 2. 11. Every complaint respecting an offence against this Act Procedure. shall be prosecuted under the provisions of Part XV. of the Criminal Code. R.S., c. 110, s. 11. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 649 |