SEC. 77-9-239. Use of automatic couplers.

The public service commission shall recommend to the several railroads the adoption of uniform automatic car-couplers. When any such appliances shall have been required by the Congress of the United States to be used in interstate commerce, the commission is authorized to require railroads in this state to comply with the requirements, as concerns domestic commerce, within a reasonable time.

SOURCES: Codes, 1892, Sec. 4317; 1906, Sec. 4871; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 7656; 1930, Sec. 7084; 1942, Sec. 7860.

1997 Amendment:

Repealed.

SOURCE: 1997 Laws, Chapter 460, Sec. 13, SB2997, Effective July 1, 1997.