Every railroad company heretofore incorporated and organized under the laws of this state, or under the laws of any other state, and authorized or licensed to do business in this state, and every such company which hereafter shall be incorporated and organized under the provisions of article one of this chapter, or authorized or licensed […]
All railroads maintaining stations that are shipping points for livestock, where there are as many as one thousand head shipped in any one year, shall wherever practicable place within the stock pens owned or controlled by such railroad company suitable watering troughs which shall, at all times during the time stock is being shipped from […]
Any railroad company in this state may, with the assent and approval of the Public Service Commission, consolidate its properties and franchises with the property and franchises of another railroad company or other railroad companies, or obtain the possession and control of the lines and tracks of another railroad company or of other railroad companies, […]
The railroad or any extension or lateral or branch line of any railroad company may pass out of this state into any other state, with the assent of such state, and back again into this state as often as may be found necessary or convenient in locating such railroad, extension or lateral or branch line.
In furtherance, and not in limitation, of the general or other powers of any railroad company, every such railroad company shall have the following powers, it being provided that the enumeration herein of specific powers shall not limit or restrict in any manner the general or other powers of such company: (a) To cause such […]
If a sale shall be made under a trust deed or mortgage executed by a railroad corporation on all its works and property, or if the sale of such property shall be made under the decree of a court, and there be a conveyance to any person or persons pursuant to any such sale, said […]
The corporation created by or in consequence of such sale and conveyance shall succeed to all such franchises, rights and privileges, but not immunity from taxation, and perform all such duties as would have been had, or should have been performed by the first company, but for such sale and conveyance; save only, that the […]
(a) No later than seven days before applying a pesticide to a rightofway that a railroad company owns or maintains, the railroad company shall provide pesticide safety information, which may be obtained by the railroad company's contracted pesticide applicator, by posting at affected on-duty railroad locations and through train bulletins, dispatcher messages, or other required […]
(a) As used in this section: (1) "Company" is a railroad carrier as defined in section twenty-eight, article three, chapter sixty-one;
Every such railroad company shall have the right to purchase, take by voluntary gift or grant, acquire by condemnation, own, hold and use, all real estate and other property necessary for its corporate objects and purposes, and, when any property so acquired shall be no longer required for its use and purposes, to sell and […]
Any such railroad company may acquire, construct, own, hold and operate plants and properties for the generation, production and transportation of electricity in this state, for its corporate uses and purposes: Provided, That it shall not build or construct any hydroelectric plant or any dams or impounding basins for the use of such plant in […]
Any such railroad company, owning and operating any plant in this state for the production of electricity and power primarily for its own use, may sell and dispose of any surplus electricity or power not required for its use, under such regulations as are prescribed by law or by the Public Service Commission of the […]
It shall be unlawful for any railroad corporation to engage, directly or indirectly, in the business of buying and selling coal or coke, or to promise, pledge or lend its credit, money or other property or thing of value to another, either natural or corporate, engaged in such business, but nothing herein shall prevent such […]
Any charter issued under article one of this chapter incorporating any railroad company for the purpose of constructing a railroad in the State of West Virginia shall name the principal towns and cities which are proposed to be reached and served by such railroad.
Every railroad corporation shall, within a reasonable time after its railroad is located in this state, cause to be made a map and profile thereof, with the names of the owners of the lands through which it runs, and of the noted places along the same stated thereon, and file the same in the office […]
A bell or steam whistle shall be placed on each locomotive engine, which shall be rung or whistled by the engineer or fireman, at a distance of at least sixty rods from the place where the railroad crosses any public street or highway, and be kept ringing or whistling for a time sufficient to give […]
Every railroad company shall, at every place where a road or street crosses its railroad on the same level, erect and maintain suitable signboards or notices of warning apprising persons of the danger in crossing its tracks. All such signboards or notices shall be of the design and construction and shall be located in the […]
