(a) Every railroad corporation shall start and run their cars for the transportation of passengers and property at regular times, to be fixed by public notice. (b) (1) Every railroad corporation shall furnish sufficient accommodations for the transportation of all passengers and property as shall, within a reasonable time previous thereto, offer or be offered […]
(a) Every railroad company operating a railroad in this state shall cause all freight and passenger trains running on its roads to stop at all points on its roads where another railroad crosses, joins, unites, or intersects. At those places the company shall take and receive on its trains all passengers, freight, and mail which […]
(a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is empowered to require every company or person operating a railroad in Arkansas which runs and operates passenger trains to stop one (1) of its passenger trains each way every day at all regular stations where tickets are sold whether the station is a flag station or not. (b) […]
(a) Any railroad company owning or operating a line of railway in this state, passing through any city or incorporated town within one-half (½) mile of the state boundary line of this state, shall erect and maintain a suitable depot therein and shall stop all its passenger trains at this station. (b) (1) Any railroad […]
(a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall have power to require the building and maintaining of union passenger or freight depots, by two (2) or more railroads in any city of the first class or city of the second class in this state, when the business and conditions in the city justify or require such […]
(a) (1) When not fewer than fifty (50) citizens of any incorporated town in this state, situated on the line of any railroad run or operated within this state, shall make application in writing to the president of the railroad company, to the board of directors thereof, through its secretary, or to any receiver, mortgagee, […]
The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized, empowered, and required to hear and consider all petitions filed with it for establishment, discontinuance, enlargement, dualization, or modification of railroad train service, spurs, sidetracks, and platforms.
(a) Within thirty (30) days after the filing of a petition, the Arkansas Department of Transportation shall proceed to make a personal inspection of the conditions complained of and investigate the objects sought to be accomplished by the petitioners. The department shall have the right and power to summon and swear witnesses. The summons shall […]
(a) Any railroad, railroad company, lessee, or operator of the railroad company, which fails or refuses to comply with the findings, decrees, and mandates of the Arkansas Department of Transportation within the time specified therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) The district prosecuting attorney shall bring the proceeding in any court having […]
A petition for establishment, reestablishment, or enlargement of railroad train service, spurs, sidetracks, and platforms shall be signed by at least twenty-five (25) qualified electors residing in the territory sought to be affected.
(a) Any railroad operating in this state may file with the Arkansas Department of Transportation a notice of discontinuance, dualization, or modification of any of its agency stations together with a statement certified by a proper officer of the railroad to the effect that the agency station had been operating at a financial loss according […]
(a) When any railroad corporation organized under the laws of Arkansas and operating properties within the State of Arkansas abandons such operations for a period of thirty (30) days or more without specific authority from the regulatory bodies having jurisdiction thereof, the stockholders of the corporation shall offer for sale their stock in the railroad […]
(a) If any railroad corporation, manager, or receiver shall attempt to abandon any railroad, or part thereof, by failing to operate its trains, or to resume operation of its trains over its railroad, or part thereof, if the operation of trains has been abandoned, the Arkansas Department of Transportation shall report the attempted abandonment to […]
A passenger train station governed by this subchapter shall post information about the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline as required under § 12-19-102.
