Section 4907.50 | Engines or Trains May Pass Crossings Without Stopping.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When two or more railroads, or a railroad and an electric railway, erect a system of interlocking works or fixtures at the place where such railroads, or railroad and railway, cross each other at a common grade, or when a railroad erects […]
Section 4907.51 | Unsafe Interlocking Works or Fixtures.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly If in the opinion of the public utilities commission any system of interlocking works or fixtures referred to in section 4907.50 of the Revised Code proves to be unsafe or impracticable, the commission may order than no engines or trains shall pass […]
Section 4907.52 | Safety Devices at Grade Crossings.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When two railroads, a railroad and an interurban railroad or electric or street railway, two interurban railroads, or a railroad or electric railway and a street or highway cross at grade, if, in the opinion of the public utilities commission, public safety […]
Section 4907.53 | Hearing as to Necessity of Safety Device.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly At the time and place named for hearing, unless continued for good cause, the public utilities commission shall try the question of whether a crossing referred to by section 4907.52 of the Revised Code shall be protected by interlocking or other safety […]
Section 4907.54 | Compulsory Interlocking.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly If the tracks of a railroad or electric railway cross at grade the tracks of a railroad or electric railway previously constructed, the former shall provide interlocking works or other fixtures satisfactory to the public utilities commission at such crossing, and pay […]
Section 4907.55 | Crossing Without Stopping.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When interlocking works or other fixtures are constructed and maintained in compliance with law by railroads and electric railways where railroads referred to in section 4907.54 of the Revised Code cross each other, engines, trains, or cars of an electric railway may […]
Section 4907.46 | Forfeiture in Case of Noncompliance.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly If the company operating a railroad neglects or without good cause fails to make the repairs or reconstruction prescribed by the public utilities commission within the time limited by it under sections 4907.44 and 4907.45 of the Revised Code, such company shall […]
Section 4907.47 | Installing Crossing Signals.
Effective: October 29, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 111 – 118th General Assembly (A) If, after public hearing as to the necessity for installing protective devices at a public railroad highway grade crossing, written notice of which is published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county […]
Section 4907.471 | Surveys Determining Probability of Accident at Crossing.
Effective: November 28, 1991 Latest Legislation: House Bill 248 – 119th General Assembly (A) The public utilities commission shall survey all public crossings of railroads at grade, whether on state, county, or township highways or on streets or ways within municipal corporations. The commission shall devise a formula according to sound highway engineering practice for […]
Section 4907.472 | Grade Crossing Protection Fund.
Effective: January 1, 2018 Latest Legislation: House Bill 26 – 132nd General Assembly (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the grade crossing protection fund for the purpose of paying: (1) The public share of the cost of reducing hazards at public highway-railway crossings at any location where a railway and a public […]