Section 39-8-9. – Order to maintain flagperson or precautionary appliance at grade crossing.
§ 39-8-9. Order to maintain flagperson or precautionary appliance at grade crossing. Every railroad corporation or lessees, receivers, or trustees of the corporation operating railroads within this state shall cause flagpersons or gates or other precautionary measures or appliances to be established or substituted wherever the railroads cross public highways, whenever and as often as […]
Section 39-8-10. – Failure to maintain flagperson or precautionary appliances.
§ 39-8-10. Failure to maintain flagperson or precautionary appliances. Every railroad corporation that shall refuse or neglect to comply with an order, or with a confirmation of such order upon appeal, shall, for every day’s neglect after seven (7) days from the date of the service of the order upon the president, treasurer, or any […]
Section 39-8-11. – Order to maintain electric signals at crossing.
§ 39-8-11. Order to maintain electric signals at crossing. At any point where a highway, city or town way, or traveled place is crossed at the same level by a railroad where a gate or flagperson is not maintained, the commission may, after notice to and hearing of the railroad corporation whose road so crosses, […]
Section 39-8-12. – Municipal order to maintain crossing gates or fence.
§ 39-8-12. Municipal order to maintain crossing gates or fence. Every railroad corporation whose railroad crosses any street or highway at grade in the city of Providence shall erect, maintain, and cause to be operated gates across every street or highway satisfactory in all respects to the city council upon receiving notice from the city […]
Section 39-8-1.1. – Commission control of grade crossings.
§ 39-8-1.1. Commission control of grade crossings. In the exercise of the police power of the state for the safety of its inhabitants, the general assembly vests in the commission the authority and power to determine the point at which and the manner in which any grade crossing of a railroad and a street shall […]
Section 39-8-1.2. – Definitions.
§ 39-8-1.2. Definitions. As used in this title: (1) “Private crossings” shall mean and refer to those crossings over railroad tracks at grade that have been established by written agreement between the railroad, the tracks of which are being crossed, and the party or parties who are given exclusive right of passage over the private […]
Section 39-8-1.3. – Authorization for private crossing.
§ 39-8-1.3. Authorization for private crossing. No railroad owning railroad tracks within the state shall enter into any agreement of any nature whatsoever with any private party for the establishment of a private crossing at grade, unless and until the railroad shall have obtained permission from the commission for the establishment of the private crossing. […]
Section 39-8-1.4. – Barricading of crossings.
§ 39-8-1.4. Barricading of crossings. The general assembly hereby declares that any private railroad crossing found by the commission after a hearing to be dangerous or a hazard to the public or to those using trains is a public nuisance, and the commission may order the railroad to barricade the crossing as a matter of […]
Section 39-8-2. – Raising or lowering of highway to eliminate grade crossing.
§ 39-8-2. Raising or lowering of highway to eliminate grade crossing. If the city or town council of any city or town where a turnpike or highway crossed by a railroad on a level therewith is situated, is of the opinion that it is necessary for the security of the public that the turnpike or […]
Section 39-8-3. – Consent to establishment of grade crossing.
§ 39-8-3. Consent to establishment of grade crossing. No railroad corporation shall lay out or build its road or lay its tracks across any railroad, street, highway, turnpike, or traveled way at grade, and no street, highway, turnpike, or road shall be laid out or built across any railroad track at grade, except by the […]