THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     753

purposes of this subsection (e), a company controlling a public serv-
ice company shall be deemed a public service company of the same
class as the controlled public service company.

24.    (Personnel of the Commission.)

No public service company (or any officer or employee or agent
thereof) shall offer to any personnel of the commission any office,
place, appointment or position, or any present, gift, or gratuity or
any special consideration of any kind whatsoever.

25.    (Preferences and Discrimination.)

(a)  No public service company shall (with the exceptions listed
in the following subsection) directly or indirectly, by any means
whatever (including but not limited to special rates, rebates, draw-
backs or refunds) in respect of any service rendered or commodity
furnished by it:

(1)  Charge, demand or receive from any person a greater or less
compensation than from any other person under substantially similar
circumstances;

(2)  Extend any privileges or facilities to any person except such
as are uniformly extended to all persons under substantially similar
circumstances;

(3)  Give any undue or unreasonable preference to or discriminate
against or cause any undue or unreasonable prejudice to, any person,
locality, or particular class of service.

(b)   The preceding subsection shall not apply to service rendered
or commodities furnished under the following circumstances:

(1)  To a public service company's own officers, employees, agents,
surgeons, pensioners, physicians, attorneys, and their immediate
families and to ministers of religion, and United States, state, or
local governments.

(2)  To charitable and eleemosynary institutions to assist them
in the performance of their charitable and eleemosynary work.

(3) To provide relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence, flood
or other similar calamity.

(4)  In the case of common carrier companies, also to transporta-
tion of personnel of any other common carrier company which re-
ciprocates for personnel of the transporting common carrier com-
pany; transportation of inmates of hospitals, indigent, destitute and
homeless persons; transportation of persons exclusively engaged in
charitable and eleemosynary work; transportation of inmates of
national or state soldiers and sailors homes, including those about
to enter and those returning home after discharges; transportation
of railway mail service employees, postoffice, customs and immigra-
tion inspectors, newsboys, baggage agents; transportation of prop-
erty carried to or from fairs and expositions for exhibition; trans-
portation of employees of sleeping car companies, express companies,
telegraph companies and telephone companies doing business along
the line of the carrier company; transportation of persons and prop-
erty incident to or connected with contracts for construction, opera-
tion or maintenance of the plant of the transporting company, to the