§ 39-6-27.1. Maintenance of way employees in area of double or multiple tracks. Whenever maintenance of way crews or employees are working in the area of double or multiple railroad tracks, the following safety precautions shall be mandatory: (1) All trains shall be notified of the location of the crews or employees by mile markers […]
§ 39-6-27.2. After accident counseling. (a) Every railroad corporation and railway company shall provide or make available to every member of an operating crew involved in an accident on its railway or right of way that results in loss of life or serious bodily injury, counseling services or other critical incident stress debriefing services within […]
§ 39-6-28. [Reserved.]
§ 39-6-29. Caboose car or rider car. (a) It shall be unlawful for any corporation or individual to maintain, equip, or use within the state, any railroad caboose car, a rider car, or any car used as either a caboose car or rider car, unless the car is equipped with suitable and adequate water supply […]
§ 39-6-3. Action to abate unlicensed road. In addition to the remedy by indictment for the nuisance, the attorney general shall, for the purpose of abating any nuisance, file on the part of the state, in the superior court, a civil action or information against any person or corporation who or that shall build any […]
§ 39-6-30. Protection of railroad employees. As a condition of his or her approval of any abandonment of railroad facilities, not including a relocation by a carrier or carriers by railroad subject to the provisions of this title, the public utilities administrator shall require a fair and equitable arrangement to protect the interest of the […]
§ 39-6-31. Declaration of policy regarding abandoned railroad property. The general assembly finds and declares that the preservation of open spaces and the orderly control and development of unused or undeveloped land bears a substantial relationship to the public health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state. When a railroad is granted permission […]
§ 39-6-32. Disposition of abandoned railroad property. Whenever any railroad is granted permission to abandon any rail line by the Interstate Commerce Commission and ceases to be used by the railroad claiming title thereto, and within one year thereafter the head of any department, board, bureau, commission, or agency of the state government, hereinafter referred […]
§ 39-6-33. Determination of price to be paid. If the railroad shall agree with the acquiring authority upon the sum to be paid, and the price shall be approved by the state properties committee, the sum agreed shall be paid to the railroad upon delivery of proper instruments of conveyance. If no agreement as to […]
§ 39-6-4. Supervision by president and directors. The president and directors of every railroad corporation shall maintain, by themselves or by an executive committee of the directors, a watchful supervision over the management of their road. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 187, § 10; G.L. 1909, ch. 215, § 13; G.L. 1923, ch. 251, § […]
§ 39-6-5. Stockholders’ access to books. Every stockholder of any railroad corporation incorporated within this state may, at all reasonable times, examine the books, papers, and accounts of the corporation in which he or she is a stockholder; and if any clerk or other officer of any railroad corporation having the custody of the books, […]
§ 39-6-6. Security for damages required before entry on land. No railroad corporation shall enter upon or use the land or materials located for the use of its railroad, except for the purpose of making surveys, until the corporation shall have given such security for the payment of all damages as shall be finally awarded […]
§ 39-6-7. Abandonment of condemned lands. Any railroad corporation chartered by the general assembly of this state may, at any time before final court confirmation of the report of the commissioners appointed by any court, under the provisions of its charter and of law, to estimate all damages that any person shall sustain whose lands […]
§ 39-6-8. Reversion of abandoned lands. Any and all lands, materials, and their appurtenances, covered by an abandoned location, that may have been taken or used and not paid for by the railroad company before abandonment, shall immediately, on the report thereof to such court as provided in § 39-6-7, revert to, and the title […]
§ 39-6-9. Possession of land adverse to railroad. No length of possession, user, or occupancy of land belonging to a railroad corporation by an owner or occupier of adjoining land shall hereafter create any right in or to the land of the corporation in an adjoining owner or occupant or in any person claiming under […]
