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 […]
Section 4907.473 | Removing or Defacing Protective Device Prohibited.
Effective: October 29, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 111 – 118th General Assembly No person shall unlawfully remove, displace, injure, or deface any sign, signal, gate, or other protective device required to be installed under Chapter 5523. of the Revised Code.
Section 4907.474 | Closing Crossings to Vehicular Traffic.
Effective: July 1, 1993 Latest Legislation: House Bill 152 – 120th General Assembly (A) In making the survey provided for by section 4907.471 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall determine as to each crossing whether there is a demonstrable need for such crossing to exist and whether the crossing could be closed […]
Section 4907.475 | Closing Rural Crossings.
Effective: July 1, 1993 Latest Legislation: House Bill 152 – 120th General Assembly (A) If the public utilities commission finds that there is not a demonstrable need for the crossing to exist according to the factors listed in divisions (A)(1) to (9) of section 4907.474 of the Revised Code and that the crossing could be […]
Section 4907.476 | Use of Federal Funds.
Effective: October 29, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 111 – 118th General Assembly In its administration of sections 4907.47 to 4907.475 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall, to the extent that it uses federal funds in connection with the erection, installation, or maintenance of any grade crossing protective devices or additional grade […]
Section 4907.48 | Regulation of Crossing Signals.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly All gates, bells, or devices erected under the direction of the public utilities commission shall be built within the time, in the manner, and of materials approved by the commission. Such devices so authorized shall be located in the highway or street […]
Section 4907.42 | Interchange of Traffic.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Railroad companies as between themselves, and interurban railroads and electric railways as between themselves, shall afford reasonable and proper facilities for interchange of traffic between their respective lines, for forwarding and delivering passengers and property, and shall transfer and deliver, without unreasonable […]
Section 4907.43 | Railroad Track Connection.
Effective: June 11, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 487 – 129th General Assembly When the tracks of a railroad and the tracks of an interurban or suburban railway cross, connect, or intersect, and such tracks are of the same gauge, the companies owning such railroads may connect such tracks so as to admit the passage […]
Section 4907.44 | Duty of Commission as to Dangerous Structures.
Effective: June 11, 1968 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 480 – 107th General Assembly A railroad subject to regulation by the public utilities commission shall, in accordance with American railway engineers association codes of rules for inspection or other standards approved by the public utilities commission, inspect annually every bridge used for transportation of freight, passengers, […]
Section 4907.35 | Unjust Discrimination – Forfeiture.
Effective: June 11, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 487 – 129th General Assembly If a railroad, or an agent or officer of a railroad, by special rate, rebate, drawback, or by means of false billing, false classification, false weighing, or other device, charges, demands, collects, or receives, either directly or indirectly, from any person, firm, […]