Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly If, in the location of any part of a railroad owned or operated by a domestic or foreign corporation, it is necessary to occupy with a surface or elevated track, with the necessary supports for it, any public road, street, alley, way, […]
Effective: January 1, 1966 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 94 – 106th General Assembly If the parties are unable to agree as provided in section 4955.01 of the Revised Code, and it is necessary in the judgment of the board of directors of the railroad company, to use or occupy such road, street, alley, way, or […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Every railroad company which lays a track upon or over any street, alley, road, or ground, or part thereof, as provided in section 4955.01 of the Revised Code, is responsible for injuries done thereby to private or public property lying upon or […]
Effective: August 22, 1995 Latest Legislation: House Bill 99 – 121st General Assembly When it is declared necessary by two thirds of the members of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the mayor approving, any municipal corporation may grant the right, by ordinance, to a railroad company operating a railroad in such municipal […]
Effective: July 2, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 48 – 128th General Assembly The officials in charge of general elections, in accordance with the laws relating to elections, shall arrange for and conduct the submission of the question referred to in section 4955.04 of the Revised Code to the electors. The question whether the grant […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Sections 4955.01 to 4955.06, inclusive, 4961.16, and 4961.17 of the Revised Code do not authorize a grant of the right to occupy any public street, avenue, or alley, longitudinally by an elevated track, except in so far as necessary to accommodate a […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Every company shall make every railroad constructed or controlled by it of one uniform gauge or width of track from end to end. When a railroad connects with or crosses another railroad, the companies owning or controlling such railroads may adopt such […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When two or more railroad companies have two or more tracks of the same gauge in the same street, alley, public way, or opening through a municipal corporation, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation may require such companies to use such […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No person or corporation shall willfully interfere with or obstruct any company engaged in laying the track of its railroad across any other railroad, if such company has fully complied with the law and obtained the right to so lay its track. […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When the tracks of two railroads cross each other, or in any way connect at a common grade, the crossings shall be made and kept in repair and watchmen maintained at such crossing at the joint expense of the companies owning the […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When two passenger or freight trains approach a crossing at the same time, the train on the road first built shall have precedence if the tracks are both main tracks over which all passengers and freights on the road are transported. If […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The managing agent or superintendent of each railroad shall establish, and publish to all the employees on the railroad, such rules and regulations as in all cases will secure strict compliance with sections 4955.10 and 4955.11 of the Revised Code, and shall […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly If a managing agent or superintendent fails to establish and publish rules and regulations as provided by section 4955.12 of the Revised Code, or fails to republish them on each timetable or card issued to the employees on the railroad, he is […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly An engineer or person in charge of an engine who willfully fails to comply with sections 4955.10 and 4955.11 of the Revised Code, or fails to bring the engine of which he is in charge, with the train attached to it, to […]
Effective: July 1, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 111 – 118th General Assembly If two railroads crossing each other, or in any way connecting at a common grade, by works or fixtures to be erected by them render it safe to pass over those crossings without stopping, and the works and fixtures first are approved […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When outside the limits of a municipal corporation it becomes necessary for the track of a railroad, street or electric railway, or interurban railroad company to cross the tracks of another railroad, street or electric railway, or interurban railroad company, or it […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly If in the judgment of the court of common pleas or judge of such court, as provided in section 4955.16 of the Revised Code, it is reasonable and practicable to avoid a grade crossing, by its process the court shall prevent a […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The court, by its order referred to in section 4955.16 of the Revised Code, shall define the manner in which the applicant is to do or let the work for such crossing and equitably apportion the initial expense of such construction or […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Sections 4955.16 to 4955.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not prevent any street or electric railway company, interurban railroad company, or railroad company from laying additional tracks at existing crossings, under authority existing on May 9, 1908.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Companies operating a railroad in this state shall build and keep in repair good and sufficient crossings over or approaches to such railroad, its tracks, sidetracks, and switches, at all points where any public highway, street, lane, avenue, alley, road, or pike […]
