Section 49-04-08 - Certain discriminations allowedNothing contained in this chapter shall affect:
1. The carriage, storage, or handling of property free or at reduced rates for the United States, this state, municipal governments, for charitable purposes, or to and from fairs and expositions for exhibition, or for the employees of the common carrier and their families, or private property or goods for the family use of employees of the carrier.2. The giving by a common carrier of a preference as to time of shipment of livestock, uncured meats, and other perishable property.3. The prescribing of a less rate per one hundred pounds [45.36 kilograms] in a carload lot than is charged, collected, or received for the same kind of freight in less than a carload lot.