As used in this article: (a) "Carrier,""railroad" or "railroad company" means a common carrier by railroad. (b) "Train" or "trains" mean engines, cars and any type of railroad equipment or rolling stock, or any part thereof, capable of blocking any crossing of a railroad track or tracks and any public street, road or highway.
(a) It is unlawful for any railroad company, except in an emergency, to order, allow or permit the operation of or to operate or to so operate its system so that a train blocks the passage of vehicular traffic over the railroad crossing of any public street, road or highway of this state for a […]
The railroad company shall be solely responsible for the acts of its agents and employees in violating any provision of this article or any provision of any ordinance of any municipality or any provision of any order of a county or other public authority regulating the period of time any such street, road or highway […]
There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a train is operated by the carrier whose marks, numbers, signs and symbols of identification appear on the engine or caboose of such train.
Process issuing for a violation of this article may be served upon the engineer or conductor of the train causing a violation of the provisions of this article or any other officer, agent or attorney-in-fact of the railroad company authorized by law to receive service of summons or other process issuing against said railroad company.
(a) Any railroad company, carrier or railroad violating the provisions of subsection (a), section two of this article is guilty of misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $150; upon a second conviction occurring at the same crossing within one year thereafter, shall be fined not less than $250; and upon […]
If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the article, and to this end the provisions of this article are hereby declared to be severable.
