Section IX-13: Free transportation of passengers.

  No railroad corporation or transportation company, or
transmission company shall, directly or indirectly, issue or give
any free frank or free ticket, free pass or other free
transportation, for any use, within this State, except to its
employees and their families, its officers, agents, surgeons,
physicians, and attorneys at law; to ministers of religion,
traveling secretaries for railroad Young Men's Christian
Associations, inmates of hospitals and charitable and
eleemosynary institutions and persons exclusively engaged in
charitable and eleemosynary work; to indigent, destitute and
homeless persons, and to such persons when transported by
charitable societies or hospitals, and the necessary agents
employed in such transportations; to inmates of the National
Homes, or State Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of
Soldiers' and Sailors' Homes, including those about to enter and
those returning home after discharge, and boards of managers of
such Homes; to members of volunteer fire departments and their
equipage, while traveling as such; to necessary caretakers of
live stock, poultry, and fruit; to employees of sleeping cars, of
express cars, and to linemen of telegraph and telephone
companies; to Railway Mail Service employees, postoffice
inspectors, customs inspectors, and immigration inspectors; to
newsboys on trains, baggage agents, witnesses attending any legal
investigation in which the railroad company or transportation
company is interested, persons injured in wrecks, and physicians
and nurses attending such persons:  Provided, That this provision
shall not be construed to prohibit the interchange of passes for
the officers, agents, and employees of common carriers and their
families; nor to prohibit any common carriers from carrying
passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of
general epidemic, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation; nor
to prevent them from transporting, free of charge, to their
places of employment persons entering their service, and the
interchange of passes to that end; and any railroad,
transportation, or transmission company or any person, other than
the persons excepted in this provision, who grants or uses any
such free frank, free ticket, free pass, or free transportation
within this State, shall be deemed guilty of a crime, and the
Legislature shall provide proper penalties for the violation of
any provision of this section by the railroad or transportation
or transmission company, or by any individual:  Provided, That
nothing herein shall prevent the Legislature from extending these
provisions so as to exclude such free transportations or franks
from other persons.