(a) Each agent who is authorized to sell tickets or other evidence entitling the holder to travel on any railroad, steamboat or public conveyance shall be provided with a certificate setting forth such agent’s authority to make such sales, duly attested by the seal of the owner or persons operating such railroad, steamboat or public conveyance, and also by the signature of the officer whose name is signed upon the tickets or coupons which such agent may sell. Such agent shall exhibit to any person desiring to purchase the ticket, or to any officer of the law who may request of the agent the certificate of such agent’s authority thus to sell, and shall keep the certificate conspicuously posted in such agent’s office for the information of travelers. No person not possessed of such authority shall sell or transfer any coupon or part of any ticket, or other evidence of the holder’s title to travel on any railroad, steamboat or other public conveyance, whether the same is situated, operated or owned within or without this State.

(b) Whoever sells, barters or transfers any such coupon or part of any ticket, or evidence, in violation of this section shall be fined not more than $500, or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.

59 Del. Laws, c. 393, § ?5; 60 Del. Laws, c. 503, § ?17; 84 Del. Laws, c. 42, § 3;