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(a) Any railroad company owning or operating a line of railway in this state, passing through any city or incorporated town within one-half (½) mile of the state boundary line of this state, shall erect and maintain a suitable depot therein and shall stop all its passenger trains at this station.
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(b)
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(1) Any railroad company which fails, refuses, or neglects to build a suitable depot within ninety (90) days or shall fail to stop all its passenger trains as provided in subsection (a) of this section shall forfeit and pay a sum of money not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), to be prosecuted in the name of the state by any citizen aggrieved or by the prosecuting attorney of the district. Each day’s refusal or neglect shall constitute a separate offense.
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(2) The sum when so recovered shall go to the school fund of the county in which the city or town is located.
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(3) The prosecuting attorney shall be allowed twenty percent (20%) of the amount so received for his or her services.
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(c) This section shall not apply where there is a depot within three hundred feet (300′) of the opposite side of the line at which all passenger trains stop.
