219.17 UNIFORM WARNING SIGNS. The commissioner by rule shall require that uniform warning signs be placed at grade crossings. There are four distinct types of uniform warning signs: a crossbuck sign, for use in the immediate vicinity of the crossing; an advance warning sign, to indicate the approach to a grade crossing; a yield sign […]
219.18 RAILROAD TO ERECT SIGN. At each grade crossing established after April 23, 1925, and where and when crossing signs existing as of April 24, 1925, are replaced, the railway company operating the railroad at that crossing shall erect and maintain one or more uniform crossbuck signs. The signs must be on each side of […]
219.19 ADDITIONAL WARNING SIGN. At each grade crossing where, because of the conditions surrounding it, the reasonable protection to life and property necessitates placing additional warning signs on the highway farther from the crossing than the home crossing signs, approach warning signs must be installed. The commissioner may designate grade crossings requiring additional signs on […]
219.20 STOP SIGN; YIELD SIGN. Subdivision 1. When installation required; procedure. At each grade crossing not equipped with flashing lights or flashing lights and gates where, because of the dangers attendant upon its use, the reasonable protection of life and property makes it necessary for persons approaching the crossing to stop or yield before crossing […]
219.22 STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN. Before proceeding across the railroad track at a crossing marked with a stop sign, drivers shall bring their vehicles to a full stop and ascertain whether or not trains are approaching the crossing. History: (4743-7) 1925 c 336 s 7; 1985 c 265 art 4 s 1
219.23 CROSSING GUARD. If the commissioner of transportation finds in an investigation instituted by the commissioner or upon complaint and after opportunity for hearing, that a crossing guard is necessary to protect life and property at a grade crossing, it shall order the railway company operating the railroad at the crossing to provide a crossing […]
219.24 ADDITIONAL SAFEGUARD. If the commissioner of transportation finds in an investigation instituted upon the commissioner’s own motion or upon complaint and after notice and hearing, that conditions at a grade crossing require additional safeguards to protect life and property, such as crossing gates or other suitable devices, the commissioner shall specify the nature of […]
219.26 PROTECTIVE CROSSING DEVICE; UNIFORMITY. The commissioner, so far as practicable, shall secure uniformity in the devices used to protect grade crossings. No devices may be installed until they have been approved by the commissioner. All devices which, in the opinion of the commissioner, conflict with devices approved by the commissioner, either in design or […]
219.29 PROHIBITED SIGN. Subdivision 1. Obstructing sign. No person, firm, or corporation shall place or maintain any advertising sign or other similar obstruction upon, over, or adjacent to a highway between an approach sign and the grade crossing which it marks. Subd. 2. Resembling sign. No person, firm, or corporation shall place or maintain upon, […]
219.30 INJURING, DESTROYING SIGN. It is unlawful for a person to maliciously injure, remove, displace, deface, or destroy the signs or signals provided for in sections 219.16 to 219.30. History: (4743-16) 1925 c 336 s 16; 1985 c 265 art 4 s 1
219.31 BUILDING FENCE AND CATTLE GUARD. Subdivision 1. Duty. Every railroad company shall build and maintain good and substantial fences on each side of all lines of its railroad, and good and sufficient cattle guards at all road and street crossings and other openings, except at station and depot grounds, and other places which the […]
219.32 FAILURE TO FENCE; LIABILITY AND DAMAGES. A railroad company failing to comply with section 219.31 is liable for all resulting damages, including domestic animals killed or injured by its negligence. If it fails to pay the actual damages caused by the killing or injury within 30 days after the damage occurs, the plaintiff shall […]
219.33 FENCE, CROSSING, CATTLE GUARD; LANDOWNER RECOURSE. Subdivision 1. Liability. A railroad company operating a line of railroad in this state, which has failed or neglected to fence the road and to erect crossings and cattle guards, is liable for all damages sustained by a person as a consequence of that failure or neglect. Subd. […]
219.34 FENCE BETWEEN RAILROAD AND PUBLIC ROAD. If a railroad company fails to fence its line where it adjoins a public road or street, or lies so near as to render travel on it dangerous, the governing body of the town or municipality having charge of the road or street, by notice as in the […]
219.35 CROSSING AND DRAIN. Persons owning lands abutting upon a railroad may construct, at their own expense, crossings under, over, or across the railroad and drains under and across the railroad at places and in ways that do not obstruct or impair the use of the railroad. Before constructing them, the owner of the land […]
219.36 GATE AT FARM CROSSING. A railroad company, which erects at a farm crossing a gate for the exclusive use of the owner and occupants of that farm, provides a lock for the gate, and delivers the key for the lock to the owner or occupant, is not liable to the owner or occupant for […]
219.37 DITCH AND CULVERT. A railroad company or receiver or lessee of a railroad company, operating a line of railroad in the state, shall keep clean at all times between the first day of April and the first day of November of each year all ditches and culverts constructed by them for the drainage of […]
219.375 RAILROAD YARD LIGHTING. Subdivision 1. Lighting status reports submitted by railroad common carriers. By January 15 of each year, each Class I and Class II railroad common carrier that operates one or more railroad yards in this state where, between sunset and sunrise, cars or locomotives are frequently switched, repaired, or inspected, or where […]
