§24-3-4. Free transportation and passes; reduced rates; exchange
of services and privileges.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent any
common carrier from furnishing free transportation to its
officers, attorneys, agents and employees, and their families,
and like free transportation to the officers, attorneys, agents
and employees of other common carriers and their families, mail
clerks, expressmen and sleeping car conductors and porters, and
like free transportation according to its own regulations to
persons devoting their entire time to religious work, and reduced
rates to all other persons engaged in religious, charitable and
literary pursuits, and for excursions, and for children and
students attending schools and colleges, and for commutation
tickets; or to prevent telephone, telegraph, sleeping car and
express companies from entering into contracts with one another,
and with common carriers for the exchange of services, or from
exchanging with one another and with common carriers, the
privileges of passes or franks for the officers, agents,
employees and their families of such companies and common
carriers.