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Home » US Law » 2022 Ohio Revised Code » Title 49 | Public Utilities » Chapter 4959 | Right of Way Drainage and Fences

Section 4959.01 | Waterways Must Be Provided.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Except where the roadbed of a railroad extends through or by swampland, the company or person operating the railroad shall make and keep open ditches or drains along such roadbed of depth, width, and grade sufficient to conduct water accumulating at the […]

Section 4959.02 | Fences.

Effective: March 9, 1999 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 197 – 122nd General Assembly (A) A company or person having control or management of any railroad except a scenic railway shall construct and maintain in good repair, or otherwise provide for, on each side of the railroad, along the line of the lands of the company […]

Section 4959.03 | Cattle Guards and Crossings.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Before operating a railroad, the company or person having control or management of such railroad shall maintain at every point where a public road, street, lane, or highway used by the public crosses such railroad, safe and sufficient crossings, and on each […]

Section 4959.04 | Temporary Crossings.

Effective: March 9, 1999 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 197 – 122nd General Assembly In the case of a railroad in process of construction or a proposed railroad which passes through enclosed land, the company or person having control of the railroad during its construction shall provide suitable crossings for the owner or occupant of each […]

Section 4959.07 | Exception.

Effective: March 9, 1999 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 197 – 122nd General Assembly Sections 4959.02 to 4959.04 of the Revised Code, relating to fences, do not apply to any case in which compensation for building a fence has been or may be taken into consideration and estimated as a part of the consideration to be […]

Section 4959.08 | Company May Build Fence at Landowner’s Expense.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly If an owner of lands abutting on the line of lands of a company, who is legally bound to build or repair the fence dividing his lands from the lands of the company, fails to build or repair such fence within the […]

Section 4959.09 | Right to Use Culvert for Cattle Way.

Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly An owner of land through which a railroad is constructed, and upon which there is a culvert, waterway, or opening through the embankment of the railroad of sufficient height for such purpose, may use such culvert, waterway, or opening, as a stock […]

Section 4959.10 | Forfeitures for Not Constructing and Repairing Fences.

Effective: March 9, 1999 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 197 – 122nd General Assembly A company or person having the control and management of a railroad, who fails to comply with any provision of this chapter, shall forfeit and pay, for each day the company or person so fails, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars per […]

Section 4959.11 | Destruction of Noxious Weeds.

Effective: January 9, 1961 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 104th General Assembly The superintendent or manager of a toll road, railroad, or electric railway shall destroy all brush, briers, burrs, vines, Russian thistle, Canadian thistle, common thistle, wild lettuce, wild mustard, wild parsnip, ragweed, milkweed, ironweed, and all other noxious weeds growing or being […]