§ 1199. Breaking and entering railroad car for crim- 1895, ch. 218. inal purpose. Any person who shall at any time break and enter any railroad car, with intent to commit a crime therein, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years.

§ 1208. Theft or embezzlement of passage tickets. 1895, ch. 118. Every person who shall steal any ticket, coupon, check, or other paper or writing, lawfully issued by any common carrier, entitling or purporting to entitle the holder or proprietor thereof to a passage upon any railroad or in any vessel or other public conveyance; or who shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit any such coupon, check, or other paper or writing, or who shall embezzle any such ticket, coupon, check, or other paper or writing, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in a jail not more than one year, or both.

§ 1234. Wilful injury to cars or engines. Every person who shall wilfully injure any engine or car used upon any railroad, or any car or motor used upon any street railway, or who shall wilfully and maliciously take or remove the waste or packing from or out of any journal box or boxes of any locomotive, engine, tender, carriage, coach, car, caboose, truck, or motor used or operated upon any railroad or street railway, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

1852.

Rev. 1888, $1478.

1905, ch. 193.

1895, ch. 87.

1866.

§ 1235. Nuisances on railroad tracks or in depots. Rev. 1888, $1478. Every person who shall cast, empty, or discharge, or permit to be cast, emptied, or discharged, any filth, rubbish, foul or offensive wash or water, or the contents of any privy, vault, cess-pool, or sewer, upon or into any railroad or railroad depot in any city, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, half of which shall be paid, by order of court, to the person furnishing to the proper officer information that leads to a conviction.

1869.

§ 1236. Nuisances on railroad bridges. Every person Rev. 1888, $1474. who shall commit any nuisance in or upon any railroad bridge shall be fined not more than seven dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

1905, ch. 78.

§ 1241. Wilful injury to electric railway appliances. 1895, ch. 72. Every person who wilfully and unlawfully displaces, removes, cuts, injures, or destroys any wire, insulator, pole, dynamo, signal, signal box, switch, or motor attached, appertaining

1897, ch. 53.

1905, ch. 76.

1869.

to, or connected with, any railroad or street railway operated by electricity, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than three years.

§ 1242. Unlawful appropriation of electric current. Every person who shall, without permission, knowingly withdraw or cause to be withdrawn, and appropriate to himself for his own use or for the use of any other person, any current of electricity from the wires of any person or corporation authorized to manufacture, sell, or use electricity for the purpose of light, heat, or power; and any person having permission to use the said electric current for certain specified purposes, who shall knowingly, wilfully, and intentionally withdraw or cause to be withdrawn such electric current for any other purpose; and every person to whom such electric current is furnished from or by means of a meter, who shall wilfully and with intent to cheat and defraud any of said persons or corporations, alter or interfere with such meter, or by any contrivance whatsoever, withdraw or take off the electric current in any manner except through such meter, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.

Trespass upon street railway cars. Every person who shall wilfully and unlawfully be upon, occupy, or attach himself to the fender, bumper, coupler, draw bar, roof, or other part of the car of any electric or street railway company, not intended for passengers, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

§ 1249. Wilful injury to baggage on public conveyRev. 1888, $1483. ances. Every person whose duty it is to handle, remove, or take care of the baggage of passengers, by any public conveyance, who shall wilfully or recklessly injure or destroy any article of baggage, while loading, transporting, unloading, delivering, or storing the same, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, half of which shall be paid by order of the court to the person who shall make complaint.

1874.

Rev. 1888, §1517. 1895, ch. 87.

§ 1293. Abandonment or obstruction of engines or cars. Every person who shall unlawfully, maliciously, and in violation of his duty or contract, unnecessarily stop, delay, or

abandon any locomotive, car, or train of cars, or street railway car, or shall maliciously injure, hinder, or obstruct the use of any locomotive, car, railroad, or street railway car, or street railway, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months.

§ 1294. Wilful hindering street railway company in use of its tracks. Every person who shall wilfully hinder any electric, cable, or street railway company in the use of its roads or tracks, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than three months, or both.

§ 1334. Transportation of animals on railroads. No railroad company, in transporting animals, shall permit them to be confined in cars more than twenty-eight consecutive hours, except when transported in cars in which they have proper food, water, space, and opportunity for rest, without unloading them for food, water, and rest, for at least five consecutive hours, unless prevented by storm or other accidental cause; and in estimating such confinement, the time during which the animals have been confined, without such rest, on connecting roads from which they are received, shall be included. Animals so unloaded shall be properly fed, watered, and sheltered during such rest by the owner or person having their custody, or on his neglect, by the railroad company transporting them, at his expense; and said company shall, in such case, have a lien upon such animals for food, care and custody furnished, and shall not be liable for any detention of them for such purpose; and any such company, owner, or custodian of such animals, who shall not comply with the provisions of this section, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. The knowledge and acts of agents of, and of persons employed by such company, in regard to animals transported, owned, or employed by it, or in its custody, shall be held to be its acts and knowledge.

1874. Rev. 1888, $3608. 1889, ch. 44.

1874.

Rev. 1888, §1544.

§ 1373. Neglect to close gates and bars at railroad crossings. Every person who shall enter upon, or cross a rail

1876.

Rev. 1888, $1578.

1869. Rev. 1888, §2557.

1889. ch. 121.

1867, 1871.

Rev. 1888, $1591. 1889, ch. 68. 1895, ch. 87. 1903, ch. 123. 1905, ch. 72.

1899, ch. 158.

road at any private way which is closed by gates or bars, and shall neglect to securely close them, shall be fined not more than ten dollars, and shall be liable for any damage resulting therefrom.

§ 1388. Gaming on public conveyances. Every person who shall play at any game, for any valuable thing, or shall solicit another to do the same, upon any public conveyance, and every person who shall win or lose any valuable thing by so playing, or ' betting on such play, or by sharing in any stake or wager of others, who so bet or play, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, and imprisoned not more than six months.

§ 1423. False returns to commissioners. Every person who shall wilfully make false report to the insurance commissioner or the railroad commissioners, or who shall testify or affirm falsely to any material fact in any matter wherein an oath or affirmation is required or authorized, or who shall make any false entry or memorandum upon any book, paper, report, or statement of any insurance or railroad company, with intent in either case to deceive the insurance commissioner, or the railroad commissioners, or any agent appointed to examine the affairs of any such company, or to deceive the stockholders or policy-holders or any officer of any such insurance or railroad company, or to injure or defraud any such company, and any person who, with like intent, aids or abets another in any violation of this section, shall be imprisoned not more than five years.

§ 1428. Fraudulent evasion of payment of fare. Every person who shall fraudulently evade or attempt to evade, or who shall, upon demand by the owner, agent, or person authorized to make such demand, refuse payment of the lawful fare for his conveyance on any steamboat, or in any steam railroad car, or in any electric or street railway car, or for the use of any public hack, carriage, or express wagon, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

§ 1429. Fraudulent issue and use of transfer ticket upon public conveyance. Every conductor of a street railway car or other public conveyance, and every other person whose

duty it is to collect fares on such car or conveyance, or issue a transfer ticket, or written or printed instrument, giving, or purporting to give, the right of transfer to another person or persons from a public conveyance operated upon one line or route of a street railway, to a public conveyance upon another line or route of a street railway, or from one car to another car upon the same line of a street railway, who shall knowingly and with intent to defraud the person or corporation operating such public conveyance or car, issue, sell, or give any such transfer ticket or instrument to another person not lawfully entitled thereto, or receive, use, or return any such transfer ticket or instrument unlawfully issued or presented for fare, in lieu of a regular cash fare, or substitute any such transfer ticket or instrument for any cash fare collected by him; and every person who shall fraudulently and with intent to evade the payment of a fare, receive and use or offer for passage any transfer ticket or instrument not originally issued to him; and every person who shall sell or give any such transfer ticket or instrument originally issued to him, to another person with intent to have such transfer ticket or instrument used or offered for passage by such other person, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

Rev. 1888, $$1611, 1691. 1899, ch. 190.

§ 1488. Fines and forfeitures; prosecutions; liability 1750, 1814, 1886. of corporation. All fines, forfeitures, and penalties, unless otherwise expressly disposed of by law, if imposed on any person by the superior court or by the criminal court of common pleas, or by the district court of Waterbury, shall belong to the state; if by a justice of the peace, to the town wherein the offense was committed. When a fine, penalty, or forfeiture is imposed by any statute as a punishment for any offense, and any part thereof is given to the person aggrieved, or to him who shall sue therefor, and the other part to the state, county, or town, all proper informing officers shall make presentment of such offense to the court having cognizance thereof; and the whole of such fine, penalty, or forfeiture, shall, in such case, belong to the state, county, or town, as the case may be. Whenever any corporation has incurred a penalty or forfeiture, or is liable to a fine, the state's attorney in the county wherein such corporation is located,