New York § 67 - 67Penalties for injuries to baggage
Full text of New York New York Consolidated Laws § 67 — 67Penalties for injuries to baggage, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 67. 67Penalties for injuries to baggage
§ 67. Penalties for injuries to baggage. Any person whose duty it is for or on behalf of the common carrier to handle, remove, or care for the baggage of passengers, who shall recklessly or wilfully injure or destroy any trunk, valise, box, bag, package or parcel, while loading, unloading, transporting, delivering or storing the same, or any railroad corporation, which shall knowingly keep in its employment any such wilful or reckless person, or which shall permit any injury or destruction of such property, through failure to provide sufficient help and facilities for the handling thereof, shall pay to the party injured thereby the sum of fifty dollars, in addition to such damages.
Source: official New York text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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