§ 40-33-103. Employee Does Not Assume Risks
In any action brought against any common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this article to recover damages for injuries to, or the death of, any of its employees, such employee shall not be held to have assumed the risks of his employment in any case where such injury or […]
§ 40-33-104. Jury Question
In any action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this article, to recover damages for injury to, or the death of, any of its employees, the question as to whether the negligence or violation of law claimed to have caused or contributed to the injury […]
§ 40-29-110. Duties of Commission
For the purpose of protecting the health and safety of employees of railroads, the public utilities commission of Colorado shall prescribe standards of safety. Source: L. 57: p. 603, § 1. CRS 53: § 116-10-10. C.R.S. 1963: § 116-10-10. L. 2000: Entire section amended, p. 219, § 9, effective March 29.
§ 40-29-111. Compliance
It is the duty of all persons engaged in the operation of railroads to comply with any regulation or order of the commission issued under the provisions of section 40-29-110 and to furnish any information required by the commission for purposes of section 40-29-110. The provisions of said section shall not apply to any caboose […]
§ 40-29-116. Highway-Rail Crossing Signalization Fund Created – Annual Appropriation
The highway-rail crossing signalization fund is hereby created in the state treasury, in order to promote the public safety and to provide for the payment of the costs of installing, reconstructing, and improving automatic and other safety appliance signals or devices at crossings at grade of public highways or roads over the tracks of any […]
§ 40-30-101. Fire Guard by Plowing
Every railroad corporation operating its lines of road or any part thereof within this state, between the fifteenth day of July and the first day of November of each and every year, upon each side of its line of road, shall plow as a fire guard a continuous strip of not less than six feet […]
§ 40-30-102. Penalty for Noncompliance
Any railroad company failing to comply with the provisions of section 40-30-101 shall be liable to pay a penalty of two hundred dollars for each and every mile or fractional part thereof of such strip of land it neglects to plow on either side of the line of its road in this state, in each […]
§ 40-30-103. Liability of Railroad Company
Every railroad company operating its line of road, or any part thereof, within this state shall be liable for all damages by fires that are set out or caused by operating any such line of road, or any part thereof, in this state, whether negligently or otherwise. Such damages may be recovered by the party […]
§ 40-27-111. Owner Declining Estimate
Should any owner of any animal so killed or wounded by any railroad company decline to accept the estimated value of such animal or the estimated amount of such damage as fixed by the stock inspector or to submit the same to the arbitration of the said board, within six months he shall file sworn […]
§ 40-31-101. Railroad Company Claim Agent
Every railroad corporation or the lessee or receiver thereof or other person operating the same doing business in this state shall have and keep an agent or other person residing and having his office in the principal city or town along its line within the state whose duty it is and who is fully authorized […]