Terms Used In Alabama Code 37-2-91

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

Every person, corporation, company or association operating a railroad shall give notice to the commission of every accident happening on any portion of its line in this state, which is attended with death or maiming or other serious injury to the person of anyone, within five days thereafter, giving facts and circumstances of such accident, which any one or more of the commissioners may investigate, and the result of such injury, with such details as they may deem necessary, shall be entered upon the record of the proceedings of the commission.