Effective: March 15, 1993 Latest Legislation: House Bill 667 – 119th General Assembly No person shall draw, drive, or cause to be moved any vehicle on or between the rails or tracks or on or along the graded roadway of a railroad without the knowledge and consent of the owner or controller of such railroad, […]
Effective: March 15, 1993 Latest Legislation: House Bill 667 – 119th General Assembly No person shall climb, jump, step, or stand upon, or cling or attach himself to, a locomotive, engine, or car upon the track of a railroad, unless in compliance with law or by permission under the rules of the corporation managing such […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No person shall, at a place other than a private crossing or for a purpose other than crossing a railroad, ride or drive a horse or other domestic animal into an enclosure of a railroad or knowingly permit such animal to go […]
Effective: September 29, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 59 – 130th General Assembly (A) No person in charge of a locomotive shall fail to bring the locomotive to a full stop at least two hundred feet before arriving at a crossing with another track, or proceed through the crossing before signaled to do so or […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No person or company owning, operating, or controlling a railroad shall employ as a flagman, hostler, or assistant hostler, a person who cannot read, write, and speak the English language. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than five hundred […]
Effective: January 1, 1976 Latest Legislation: House Bill 205 – 111th General Assembly No superintendent, trainmaster, or other employee of a railroad shall send or cause to be sent outside of yard limits, a passenger train of not more than five cars, any one of which carries passengers, with a crew consisting of less than […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No person, railroad company, private corporation, county, municipal corporation, or township shall violate any law relating to the height of bridges, viaducts, overhead roadways, footbridges, wires, or other structures constructed over the tracks of a railroad. Whoever violates this section shall be […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No person or company owning, operating, or controlling a railroad shall erect or permit to be erected, place, or maintain along said railroad, a mail crane or livestock chute, any portion of which approaches nearer than eighteen inches to the nearest point […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No superintendent, conductor, or other officer or employee of a railroad company, shall refuse or neglect, upon receiving notice from the inspector appointed by the public utilities commission, of a defective coupler or brake, to have it repaired forthwith or, on receiving […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No railroad company shall contract to employ a person in a position which requires such person to distinguish form or color signals, unless within two years preceding such date he has been examined for color blindness, in the distinct colors in actual […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No railroad company, or its superintendent, or manager, employing any special agent, detective, or person commonly known as “spotter” for the purpose of investigating, obtaining, and reporting to the employer, its agent, superintendent, or manager, information concerning its employees, shall discipline or […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No officer, agent, or other person acting for or in behalf of a railroad company operating ten or more miles of its railroad for the carrying or transporting of passengers or freight over its railroad within this state which fails to erect […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No agent of a railroad company shall knowingly divert or permit freight under his control to be diverted from the railroads over which it is ordered to be conveyed by the shipper of such freight. Whoever violates this section shall be fined […]
Effective: June 15, 1972 Latest Legislation: House Bill 464 – 109th General Assembly No railroad employee who has a seniority roster date on the effective date of the repeal of sections 4999.07 and 4999.08 of the Revised Code shall be removed from his employment or have his seniority rights or vacation or other fringe benefits […]
