§37-2-9. Repairs, improvements or changes in property or devices.

If, in the judgment of the Public Service Commission, repairs or improvements to or changes in any trains, switches, terminals or terminal facilities, motive power, or any other property or device used by any transportation company, subject to the supervision of the Public Service Commission, in or in connection with the transportation of passengers, freight or property, ought reasonably to be made, or any additions should reasonably be made thereto, in order to promote the security or convenience of the public or employees, or in order to secure adequate service or facilities for the transportation of passengers, freight or property, the commission shall, after a hearing had either on its own motion or after complaint filed, make and enter an order directing such repairs, improvements, changes or additions to be made within a reasonable time and in a manner to be specified therein, and every transportation company subject to the supervision of said commission shall make all such repairs, improvements, changes and additions required of it by any order of the commission served on it, and any transportation company that shall fail, refuse, omit or neglect to obey any lawful order or requirement of the Public Service Commission, for which a penalty has not been provided, shall forfeit to the State of Alabama a sum not exceeding $2,000.00 for each offense, to be fixed by the court or judge trying the case, and every such violation, failure, refusal, neglect or omission shall constitute a separate and distinct offense, and, in case of a continuing violation, each and every day's continuance thereof shall be a separate and distinct offense.

(Acts 1907, Ex. Sess., No. 15, p. 29; Code 1923, §§9846, 9872; Code 1940, T. 48, §110.)