Section 37-8-182 Marking of packages containing explosives. - Alabama Statutes

Section 37-8-182

Marking of packages containing explosives.

Every package containing explosives or other dangerous articles, when presented to a common carrier for shipment, shall have plainly marked on the outside thereof the contents thereof, and it shall be unlawful for any person, partnership or corporation to deliver for transportation to any common carrier engaged in commerce by land or water, or to cause to be delivered or to carry any explosive or other dangerous article, under any false or deceptive marking, description, invoice, shipping order or other declaration or without informing the agent of such carrier of the true character thereof, at or before the time such delivery or carriage is made, and it shall be unlawful for any person to carry or place, or cause to be carried or placed on any vessel, car or other vehicle on which passengers are carried for hire, any of the explosives in this division prohibited from being carried on vessels, cars or other vehicles on which passengers are carried for hire.

(Acts 1911, No. 368, p. 409; Code 1923, §5379; Code 1940, T. 48, §470.)