Section 4999.17 | Discipline or Discharge of Employee Without Hearing.
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 […]
Section 4999.18 | Demanding Compensation When Telegraph or Telephone Wires Not Working.
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 […]
Section 4999.19 | Diverting Freight.
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 […]
Section 4999.20 | Seniority Roster Date of Railroad Employee.
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 […]
Section 4999.05 | Flagmen on Railroads.
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 […]
Section 4999.06 | Running Passenger Trains With Less Than Full Crew.
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 […]
Section 4999.10 | Constructing Bridges Over Tracks.
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 […]
Section 4999.11 | Mail Cranes – Livestock Chutes.
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 […]
Section 4999.13 | Couplers and Brakes on Railroads.
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 […]
Section 4999.16 | Examination of Employee for Color Blindness.
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 […]