NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1028

HOUSE BILL 1005

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 62-121.70 TO DEFINE "UNION PASSENGER DEPOT OR STATION".

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 62-121.70 shall be amended by changing the colon (":") after the word "prescribe" in line seventeen (17) to a semicolon (";"), and by inserting immediately following the word "prescribe" in line seventeen (17) the following:

"and all union passenger depots or stations shall provide impartially all services incident to the comfort and convenience of the travelling public, including but not limited to the following basic union services: waiting rooms, comfort stations and restrooms; loading and unloading of passengers; selling, changing and adjusting of tickets; furnishing information about tickets, schedules, routes, arrivals and departures; handling, checking and storage of baggage; receiving, handling, and delivery express: Provided that nothing herein shall be construed as limiting the right of any motor carrier operating under the provisions of this Article to sell its own tickets and furnish its own information about tickets, schedules, routes, arrivals and departures at any place separate, apart and away from the union passenger depot or station, but not upon the premises of the union station, so long as such motor carrier also continues to participate in the union sale of its and all other carriers' tickets and the union information facilities within the station premises under union station management: Provided, that it shall be the duty of all union station managers and employees to furnish complete and impartial information to all prospective passengers concerning tickets, fares, schedules, routes, arrivals, and departures of all available bus service into and out of the union station, without discrimination against or preference for any bus carrier, and to sell tickets of all bus carriers using the station on an impartial basis and in a manner which will serve the needs and desires of the travelling public and not of any particular bus carrier or carriers; and in the event any union station manager or employee shall wilfully fail to carry out the foregoing duties in any respect, said manager or employee shall, upon complaint and hearing before the Utilities Commission, be subject to dismissal in the discretion of the Utilities Commission, and if any bus carrier shall be found by the Commission to have caused the breach of any of the foregoing duties concerning the impartial sale of tickets and furnishing of information, said carrier shall be subjected to such penalties, including suspension or revocation of its certificate or permit, as the Utilities Commission may by law impose; and it shall be the duty of the Utilities Commission to promulgate such rules and regulations, and to make such investigations of the operations of all union bus stations as may be required for the enforcement of the foregoing provisions.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1963.