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...An inclined-plane railway company may construct, operate, and maintain an inclined-plane railway for the conveyance of passengers and freight, or either, with such offices, depots, and other buildings as it deems necessary. Such company may establish and maintain a park or pleasure grounds and for such purpose acquire and hold real estate.

...ch is operated by steam power crosses a public street or highway, it must pass either over or under such street or highway, and shall be constructed in a manner and at such distance above or below it as not to obstruct the ordinary use of the street or highway.

...A city owning or having charge of any public road, street, alley, way, or ground of any kind, or any part thereof, may grant to any railroad company, street railway company, suburban railroad company, or interurban railroad company the right to construct, maintain, and operate by electricity, any elevated railroad along and over such public road, street, alley, way, or ground, except a public landing, or across them ...

...ility of the roads, streets, alleys, or public grounds, or prevent the use of any sewers, street railway tracks and appliances, pipes, wires, and conduits used for any purpose in the streets, alleys, ways, or grounds except temporarily when necessary in the construction of the tunnels or subways, except as provided in sections 4951.35 to 4951.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such elevated structures, crossings, tu...

...xcept a reasonable charge to defray the actual cost of maintenance. If any such sewer, pipe, conduit, or other conductor is of greater capacity than that existing prior to the construction of such underground railroad, the underground railroad shall be entitled to charge for the increased capacity of such conductor and not otherwise. All cost, damage, and expense incidental to the work of removing, supporting, readj...

...Any ordinance of any city purporting to grant any rights or privileges contained in sections 4951.35 to 4951.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to any company, which grant has been accepted and on account of it money has been expended in good faith, is as valid and effective as if the power in said city to so grant such rights and privileges had been expressly granted to the city.

...city to engage in, and which company is actually engaged in, the business in connection with which the use of such space is to be made. Such lease shall be made and such space occupied in such manner and on such conditions, as the legislative authority determines and approves. The legislative authority may place or cause to be placed in such tunnel or subway any pipes, lines, and conduits for any of its service, incl...

...A grant to construct an elevated or an underground railroad shall only be made upon such conditions as are agreed upon by the legislative authority of the city, and the company operating such elevated or underground railroad. Every such grant shall provide for the rate of fare within the limits of such city.

...After a grant referred to in section 4951.34 of the Revised Code has been made the company operating the elevated or underground railroad may appropriate private property necessary for the use and enjoyment of the grant, including terminals and way stations, for the purpose of constructing and operating its railroad in the manner and upon the terms provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised ...

...rounds, which may be recovered by civil action brought by the owner before the proper court at any time within two years from the completion of the tracks or railroad.

...Each city making a grant as provided in sections 4951.34, 4951.35, and 4951.39 to 4951.41, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may provide in such grant, upon such conditions as are agreed upon by the legislative authority of the city and the company operating the elevated or underground railroad, for the ultimate purchase and ownership by the city of such railroad or any part of it.

...ction for mayor, he shall certify such fact to the proper election officials.

...The officials in charge of the general election shall arrange, provide for, and conduct the submission of the question of a grant as provided in section 4951.43 of the Revised Code to such electors. The question whether the grant shall be made shall be submitted to the electors of such city at the succeeding general election occurring more than ninety days after the expiration of the sixty days provided in such...

...r such damage is sustained from the contact of said domestic animals with said cars or from contact with, or by reason of, electricity passing through or along such third rail. Sections 4951.45 to 4951.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not require the building and maintenance of such fence between the right of way of such electric or street railway or interurban railroad, and the right of way of any railroad or...

...If any company or person neglects or refuses to construct and maintain a fence as provided in section 4951.45 of the Revised Code, the owner of any land abutting on the line of the right of way of such person or company may construct the fence, so far as his lands abut on the right of way. When such owner has completed the fence, he may present for payment, to the ticket agent of the company at the station nearest th...

...urban railroad, either by coming in contact with a moving car, or by reason of the electricity contained in or passing through a third rail of such railroad or railway, such injury or death is prima-facie evidence that the person or company operating said railroad or railway has failed to comply with the requirements of sections 4951.45 to 4951.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...When street railways are operated by electricity, cable, compressed air, or other motive power in a municipal corporation, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation, by ordinance, may require the owners or operators of such railways to place watchmen at street crossings, intersections, or corners which such legislative authority deems dangerous. The legislative authority may provide for the enforcement...

...When the tracks of two street railways cross each other or in any way connect at a common grade, the crossings shall be made and kept in repair at the joint expense of the companies owning the tracks. All cars used on such railways must come to a full stop, not nearer than ten feet nor further than fifty feet from the crossing, and not cross until the way is clear. When two or more cars approach the crossing at the s...

...er cars or trains are not operated, the public utilities commission may, upon application of the company owning or operating such street railway or interurban railroad, and upon notice to the company owning or operating such industrial railroad, switch track, or spur track of the hearing of such application, permit such street railway or interurban railroad to operate its cars over and across such industrial railroad...

...ndred dollars, to be recovered by civil action at the suit of the state, in the court of common pleas of a county in which such crossing or connection is. The company in whose employ such person is, as well as the person himself, is liable in damages to any person so injured in person or property.

...f and operating such car or train. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section.

...oyees of such company and the traveling public. Each day's violation of this section constitutes a separate offense. A violation of this section is a violation by the president, general manager, general superintendent, or other officer in charge of operation of the street railway or interurban railroad company. The prosecuting attorneys of the various counties shall prosecute violations of this section.

... the considerations for such use of the public highways, that such traction companies or motor or bus transportation companies shall carry free as passengers on all regular cars and busses, policemen and firemen when on duty and in uniform.

...use of the passengers of such cars. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section.

...No officer, agent, or employee in authority of a corporation, individual, or association shall direct or permit to be operated an electric car other than a trail car, whether such electric car is a passenger car, a freight car, a sweeper, or other car, unprovided at the forward end with a screen of glass or other material sufficient to completely protect from dust, wind, and storm the motorman or other person station...