1903 Mont. Laws 135-36
| dc.coverage.spatial | Montana | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T02:41:41Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T14:41:17Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T02:51:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1903 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An Act to Amend Section 908 of Chapter I Title VIII Part IV Division I of the Civil Code of Montana, and to Repeal Section 689 of the Penal Code, ch. 66, § 1: If any railroad corporation within this State shall . . . transport within this State on any of its passenger cars, any oil of vitrol, gun powder, Lucifer matches, nitro glycerine, glynon oil, nytroleum or blasting oil, or nitrates oil, or powder mixed with any such oil, or fiber saturated therewith, or duolin or giant powder, or blasting powder, or any other goods in a dangerous nature . . . shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, | |
| dc.description.lawtext | That Section 908 of Chapter I Title VIII Part IV Division I of the Civil Code of Montana be, and it is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: Section 908. "If any railroad corporation within this State shall ask, charge, or demand any exhorbitant rate of compensation for the transportation of any freight, baggage, express matter or passenger, or make any unjust discrimination in its rates, or shall neglect to provide comfortable and convenient cars or coaches for the transportation of its passengers and their baggage, or safe cars for the transportation of express matter and freight, or shall use any highly inflammable oils for lighting any car on its passenger trains, or shall wilfully neglect to keep a table of its passenger tariff and rates of freight conspicuously posted in each depot within this State, or fail to light its track in any City in this State, or shall transport within this State on any of its passenger cars, any oil of vitrol, gun powder, lucifer matches, nitro glycerine, glynon oil, nytroleum or blasting oil, or nitrate oil, or powder mixed with any such oil, or fibre saturated therewith, or duolin or giant powder, or blasting powder, or any other goods of a dangerous nature, or in any incorporated city or town in this state run any train at a rate of speed forbidden by the laws of this State or the ordinances of such city or town, or run any train over any unsafe bridge, trestle work, or aqueduct in this State; or fail to have upon any locomotive in use by it in this State a bell and steam whistle in fit condition for use thereon; or shall permit any locomotive to approach any highway, road or railroad crossing, without causing the whistle to be sounded, at a point between fifty and eighty rods from the crossing, and the bell to be rung from said point until the crossing is reached; or shall wilfully fail to make any report herein required, or which may be hereafter required by any law of this State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined for the first offense in the sum of one thousand dollars, and for the second violation of the same provision, two thousand dollars, and for every other and further violation of any provision of which it has been twice before found guilty, a sum not less than five nor more than ten thousand dollars. | |
| dc.description.summary | The law prohibited railroads from transporting dangerous materials, including gunpowder, nitroglycerine, blasting powders, and other explosives in passenger cars, and classified violations as misdemeanors subject to substantial fines. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4482 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Laws_Resolutions_and_Memorials_of_the_St/Y81GAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Montana+laws&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | GUNPOWDER - TRANSPORTATION | |
| dc.title | 1903 Mont. Laws 135-36 |