Ind. Code ch. 8-3-18

in effect

Ind. Code § 8-3-18-1 Authority

Sec. 1. The conductors of all trains carrying passengers within this state shall be invested with police powers while on duty on their respective trains. Formerly: Acts 1875, c.84, s.1.

Ind. Code § 8-3-18-2 Ejection of passengers; refund of fare

Sec. 2. When any passenger shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, or use any obscene language, or play any games of cards or chance for money upon any passenger trains, the conductor of such train is hereby authorized to stop his train at any place where such offense has been committed, and eject such passenger from the train, using only such force as may be necessary to accomplish such removal, and may command the assistance of the employees of the railroad company to assist in such removal; but, before doing so, he shall tender to such passenger such proportion of the fare he has paid as the distance he then is from the place to which he has paid his fare bears to the whole distance for which he has paid his fare. Formerly: Acts 1875, c.84, s.2.

Ind. Code § 8-3-18-3 Arrest of passenger; delivery before court; affidavit

Sec. 3. When any passenger commits a crime upon any passenger train, the conductor of the train may arrest the passenger and take him before a court in the county in which the crime is committed, and file an affidavit charging him with the crime. Formerly: Acts 1875, c.84, s.3. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.823.

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