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SECTION 105
False billing by carrier or shipper
Transportation (TRA) CHAPTER 61-A, ARTICLE 4
§ 105. False billing by carrier or shipper. No common carrier or any
officer or agent thereof or any person acting for or employed by it,
shall assist, suffer or permit any person or corporation to obtain
transportation for any passenger or property between points within this
state at less than the rates then established and in force in accordance
with the schedules filed and published in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter, by means of false billing, false classification, false
weight or weighing, or false report of weight, or by any other device or
means. No person, corporation or any officer, agent or employee of a
corporation, who shall deliver property for transportation within the
state to a common carrier, shall seek to obtain such transportation for
such property at less than the rates then established and in force
therefor, as aforesaid, by false billing, false or incorrect
classification, false weight or weighing, false representation of the
contents of a package, or false report or statement of weight, or by any
other device or means, whether with or without the consent or connivance
of the common carrier, or any of its officers, agents or employees. No
person shall obtain transportation for himself or others or shall avail
himself or others of any means of transportation at rates other than or
different from those prescribed in the schedules of rates filed and
published, or in violation of the conditions attached to any reduced
rate ticket, provided such conditions are contained in the filed and
published schedules. Nothing in this section shall limit, modify or
change the provisions of section one hundred three and section one
hundred four.