All persons or corporations owning or operating street railways or motor buses in or upon the public streets of any city of not less than twenty thousand inhabitants are required:
1. To carry children of the age of twelve years or less for one-half the fare regularly collected for the transportation of adults.

2. To sell or provide for the sale of tickets in lots of twenty, each good for one trip over the line or lines owned or operated by such person or corporation, for one-half the regular fare collected for the transportation of adults, to students in actual attendance upon any academic, public or private school of grades not higher than the grades of the public high schools situated within, or adjacent to the town or city in which such railway is located. Such tickets are required to be sold only upon the presentation by the student desiring to purchase them of the written certificate of the principal of the school which he attends showing that such student is in regular attendance upon such school and is within the grades herein provided. Such tickets are not required to be sold to such students and shall not be used except during the months when such schools are in actual session and such students shall be transported at half fare only when they present such tickets.
3. To transport, free of charge, children of the age of five years or less when attended by a passenger of above said age.
4. To accord to all passengers referred to in this Article the same rights as to the use of transfers issued by their own or other lines as are or may be accorded to passengers paying full fare.
Any such person or any officer or employee of any such corporation or other person who knowingly violates any provision of this Article, or any person who misrepresents the age or the grade of any person for the purpose of securing the reduced fare herein provided for, shall be fined not less than Twenty-five nor more than One Hundred Dollars.