Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Any railroad company may maintain and operate, or construct, maintain, and operate, a railroad, with such main tracks, sidetracks, turnouts, offices, depots, roundhouses, machine shops, water tanks, telegraph lines, and other necessary appliances, as it deems necessary, between the points named in […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Upon any railroad in this state, electricity may be used as a motive power in the propulsion of cars. Before a line of poles and wires may be constructed through or along the streets, alleys, or public grounds of a municipal corporation, […]
Effective: June 11, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 487 – 129th General Assembly Any railroad company owning or operating a railroad in this state may own, control, operate, or manage motor vehicles for the purpose of transporting persons or property, or both, upon the public highways for hire, subject to Chapters 4921. and 4923. of […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a terminus named in the articles of incorporation of a railroad company is a county upon the line or boundary of the state, the president and board of directors of the company, upon the location of the railroad in that county, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly By a resolution adopted by a majority of its board of directors, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, with the written consent of three fourths in interest of its stockholders, a railroad company may change the line of railroad, or […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When the company referred to in section 4961.05 of the Revised Code has issued its mortgage bonds for the construction of its railroad, the record of the mortgage securing them, in each county through or into which the changed line of the […]
Effective: October 11, 1955 Latest Legislation: House Bill 70 – 101st General Assembly When a railroad company, the line of whose railroad has not been finally located in whole or in part, finds it necessary, in order to avoid dangerous or difficult curves, grades, or dangerous or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or for other reasonable […]
Effective: October 7, 1977 Latest Legislation: House Bill 42 – 112th General Assembly When, under section 4961.07 of the Revised Code, a railroad company’s line of railroad is diverted from a county named in the articles of incorporation, such company is liable to any person owning land in the county for damages caused by the […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly For the purpose of avoiding annoyance to public travel, dangerous or difficult curves or grades, or unsafe or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or when the roadbed has been injured or destroyed by the current of a river, watercourse, or other unavoidable or […]
Effective: January 1, 1966 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 94 – 106th General Assembly For the purpose of making any change provided by section 4961.09 of the Revised Code, the railroad company shall have all rights, powers, and privileges to enter upon and appropriate lands in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When the location is changed, as provided by section 4961.09 of the Revised Code, after the railroad has been used for transportation of persons and property, the railroad company is liable for all damages occasioned by the change to the owner of […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly A railroad company may construct branches from the main line of railroad to municipal corporations or places within the limits of a county through or into which its railroad passes or to a connection with any railroad within this state, or to […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly A railroad company, domestic or foreign, or municipal corporation which owns or operates a railroad may enter upon any land for the purpose of examining and surveying its railroad line, and may appropriate so much of such land as is necessary for […]
Effective: October 2, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 464 – 100th General Assembly A railroad company may acquire by purchase or gift lands in the vicinity of the line of its railroad, or through which it passes, so far as is deemed convenient or necessary by the company to secure a right of way, and […]
Effective: January 9, 1961 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 104th General Assembly When any deed executed prior to October 2, 1953 or recorded after such date purporting to transfer title to real estate has been executed by an officer or officers other than the president of such railroad company, as provided by section 4961.15 […]
Effective: January 1, 1966 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 94 – 106th General Assembly If, in the judgment of the board of directors of any domestic or foreign corporation owning or operating a railroad wholly or partly within this state, it is necessary to use and occupy for an elevated track any portion of any public […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Before an appropriation under section 4961.16 of the Revised Code may be made, there shall be submitted to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation general plans of the proposed structure showing the manner, character, and location of all supports, any part […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a railroad company desires to extend the line of its railroad beyond either of its previously designated termini, its president and board of directors may submit the question of such extension and change of termini to a meeting of its stockholders, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When it is necessary in the construction, reconstruction, alteration, or improvement of its railroad, or in making additions to or relocating such railroad, to cross a road or a stream of water, a railroad company may divert it from its location or […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly A railroad company may construct its bridges so as to answer the ordinary purposes of travel and business, as well as for railroad purposes, and may demand and receive such rates of toll for the passage of individuals, vehicles of all kinds, […]
