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...The cost of constructing a crossing improvement authorized, including the making of ways, crossings, or viaducts, above or below the railroad tracks, and the raising or lowering of the grades of the railroad tracks and sidetracks for such distance as is required by such municipal corporation and made necessary by such improvement, together with the cost of land or property purchased or appropriated, and damages to ow...

...he proportion of the cost of a crossing improvement which the company is required to pay.

...y abutting upon any street, highway, or public place, the grade of which will be changed by the proposed improvement.

...s for damages by reason of the proposed improvement. After the expiration of the time for the filing of the claims, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, when claims have been filed within the time limited, shall determine by ordinance or resolution whether the claims are to be judicially inquired into before commencing or after the completion of the proposed improvement. Thereupon, the mayor, or vi...

...Any way, crossing, or viaduct constructed over a railroad track in any municipal corporation shall be of such height as not to be of less than twenty-one feet in the clear from the top surface of the rails in the railroad track to the lowest point or projection of such overhead way, crossing, or viaduct, unless the railroad company consents to, or the court of common pleas orders, a less height. In no event shall suc...

...corporation, necessitated by a proposed improvement, shall be purchased or appropriated by the municipal corporation or railroad company in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The land or property required to make any alteration in a railroad or any right, title, or interest in a public street, road, alley, or way required to permit the erection of piers or supports i...

...ept in repair as follows: (A) When the public way crosses a railroad by an overhead bridge, the cost of maintenance must be borne by the municipal corporation; (B) When the public way passes under the railroad, the bridge and its abutments shall be kept and maintained by the railroad company, and the public way and its approaches shall be maintained and kept in repair by the municipal corporation in which they are ...

...e made, crosses at grade or otherwise a public street or the right of way of any railroad company at a point where it has been determined to construct such improvements, the municipal corporation by ordinance may require such street railway company to bear a reasonable proportion of the cost assumed by it in making the improvement, not exceeding one half of the portion payable by the municipal corporation, which shal...

... own expense all tracks affected by the improvement referred to by section 4957.25 of the Revised Code and all construction work of whatever character necessary to support such tracks.

...Except as provided in sections 4957.30 to 4957.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code, all crossings constructed after May 3, 1904, whether of highways by railroads, or of railroads by highways, shall be above or below the grade thereof.

...Every railroad company building a new line of road under its charter powers across a highway shall construct it above or below the grade of the highway, unless it is allowed to build it at grade as provided in sections 4957.30 to 4957.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such company may exercise the power contained in its charter and the general laws for altering the grade and location of highways in order to avoid g...

...Every municipal corporation or other authority building a highway across an existing railroad shall construct it above or below the grade of such railroad, unless allowed to build at grade as provided by sections 4957.30 to 4957.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The cost of such work shall be paid, unless otherwise agreed upon, eighty-five per cent by such municipal corporation or other authority, and fifteen per c...

...to divert, change, or alter an existing public highway, a petition shall be presented by the party desiring such construction or diversion, to the court of common pleas of the county within which the crossing or diversion is situated. If it is the authority constructing a highway asking for the right to cross a railroad, the railroad company shall be the defendant. If it is a railroad company asking for the right to ...

... reasonable required to accommodate the public, or to avoid excessive expense, in view of the small amount of traffic on the highway or railroad, and considering the future uses to which the highway may be adapted, or in view of the difficulties of other methods of construction, or for other good and sufficient reasons, the court shall make an order permitting such crossing at a grade or diversion to be established. ...

...Appeals may be taken from the decision of the court of common pleas to the court of appeals in proceedings under section 4957.31 of the Revised Code, as in civil actions. The decision of that court shall be final and conclusive. In both the court of common pleas and court of appeals, proceedings brought under this section and section 4957.31 of the Revised Code shall be advanced over other civil causes.

...ties at terminal or other points across public highways at the grade thereof. Such signposts and signals shall be employed for the protection of such crossings as are prescribed for railroad crossings of public highways.

...Every railroad company, public or private corporation, or person building, or permitting to be built, any bridge, viaduct, overhead roadway, footbridge, wire, and other structure mentioned in sections 4957.35 and 4957.36 of the Revised Code shall, before proceeding, file with the public utilities commission, plans and specifications for, and have its permit for, the erection of such structure or wire.

...Except cases in which the public utilities commission finds that such construction is impracticable, bridges, viaducts, overhead roadways, footbridges, wire, or other structure built over the track of a railroad after April 16, 1900, by a county, municipal corporation, township, railroad company, or other corporation or person, shall be not less than twenty-one feet in the clear from the top of the rails of such trac...

...s. In cases in which it is allowed, the public utilities commission shall file in its office a written statement of the facts upon which it relied in finding the required construction impracticable. Such clearances over and adjacent to railroad tracks in terminals may be used as the commission approves. When a railroad, union depot, or terminal company, severally or jointly, determines to install an electrification s...

...f the structure is at or in line with a public street or highway and a cross street, the cost of making such streets or highways conform to a new grade, with all damages to owners of property abutting on them because of such change, the railroad company or its assigns shall pay all costs or damages resulting from the raising or building of its bridges or structures in the line of a street or highway at a greater heig...

...Sections 4957.34 to 4957.37, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may be enforced by an injunction on complaint of any interested person, corporation, or board.

...Except where the roadbed of a railroad extends through or by swampland, the company or person operating the railroad shall make and keep open ditches or drains along such roadbed of depth, width, and grade sufficient to conduct water accumulating at the sides of the roadbed from the building or operation of the railroad to some proper outlet.

...ection 4907.08 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission determines that the company or person having control or management of the railroad is in violation of this section, the commission may order the company or person to do any of the following: (1) Construct, replace, or repair the fence; (2) Provide the landowner with the required materials to construct, replace, or repair the fence; (3) Pay the cos...

...d shall maintain at every point where a public road, street, lane, or highway used by the public crosses such railroad, safe and sufficient crossings, and on each side of such crossings cattle guards sufficient to prevent domestic animals from going upon such railroad. Such company or person shall be liable for all damages sustained in person or property by reason of the want or insufficiency of such fence, crossing,...

...In the case of a railroad in process of construction or a proposed railroad which passes through enclosed land, the company or person having control of the railroad during its construction shall provide suitable crossings for the owner or occupant of each farm, make and keep in repair fences along the line of the railroad through the enclosed fields, and protect crops growing thereon. When the company or person agree...