Ohio Revised Code Search

...A railroad subject to regulation by the public utilities commission shall, in accordance with American railway engineers association codes of rules for inspection or other standards approved by the public utilities commission, inspect annually every bridge used for transportation of freight, passengers, or railroad crews on which the railroad performs all or part of the structural maintenance work. Inspection shall b...

...cutive officer of a company operating a railroad who receives from the public utilities commission notice of a prescribed rate of speed for trains passing over a defective track, bridge, or other structure, or notice forbidding the running of passenger trains over such defective track, bridge, or other structure, shall neglect, within two days after receiving such notice, to direct the proper subordinate officers to ...

...If the company operating a railroad neglects or without good cause fails to make the repairs or reconstruction prescribed by the public utilities commission within the time limited by it under sections 4907.44 and 4907.45 of the Revised Code, such company shall forfeit to the state one hundred dollars for each day that such repairs or reconstruction is delayed beyond the time prescribed.

...e state for the reduction of hazards at railroad grade crossings. One hundred thousand dollars shall be transferred to the fund each month as provided for in section 5735.051 of the Revised Code, and may be expended by the commission to pay the public share of the costs for reducing hazards at railway crossings with highways, roads, or streets on the state, county, township, or municipal highway and street systems an...

...No person shall unlawfully remove, displace, injure, or deface any sign, signal, gate, or other protective device required to be installed under Chapter 5523. of the Revised Code.

... is located, or upon application of the railroad having jurisdiction over a crossing, if the municipal corporation or railroad believes that there is not a demonstrable need for the crossing to exist and that the crossing should be closed to the public. Any such application filed by a municipal corporation or railroad shall be on a form provided by the commission. Notice of the hearing shall be published once a week ...

... is located, or upon application of the railroad having jurisdiction over a crossing, if the county or railroad believes that there is not a demonstrable need for the crossing to exist and that the crossing should be closed to the public. Any such application filed by a county or railroad shall be on a form provided by the commission. Notice of the hearing shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in...

...In its administration of sections 4907.47 to 4907.475 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall, to the extent that it uses federal funds in connection with the erection, installation, or maintenance of any grade crossing protective devices or additional grade crossing protective devices, adhere to all pertinent federal laws and regulations. Where such laws or regulations require that the department ...

...y or street on one or both sides of the railroad tracks, as the commission deems the public safety requires. Such gates shall be so constructed that when closed they obstruct or prevent passage across such railroad from the side on which a gate is located. Such bell must be so constructed that it will ring before the approach of every train of cars or locomotive within three hundred feet or more of such crossing, and...

...When two or more railroads cross a public highway or street at a dangerous crossing, the expenses incurred in the erection and maintenance of gates, bells, or other devices, and of necessary gatekeepers or flaggers, and apportioned by the public utilities commission as railroad expense, shall be shared equally by the railroads. Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code do not prevent ...

...When two or more railroads, or a railroad and an electric railway, erect a system of interlocking works or fixtures at the place where such railroads, or railroad and railway, cross each other at a common grade, or when a railroad erects such works or fixtures at a swing bridge or drawbridge where it crosses a stream, and such works or fixtures render it safe for engines or trains to pass over such crossing or bridge...

...enforced the commission shall give such railroads opportunity to be heard as to the propriety of the order.

...When two railroads, a railroad and an interurban railroad or electric or street railway, two interurban railroads, or a railroad or electric railway and a street or highway cross at grade, if, in the opinion of the public utilities commission, public safety requires protection, the commission, upon its own motion or upon complaint, after notice to the railroads interested and full investigation, may make an order req...

...At the time and place named for hearing, unless continued for good cause, the public utilities commission shall try the question of whether a crossing referred to by section 4907.52 of the Revised Code shall be protected by interlocking or other safety devices, and shall give all companies or parties interested an opportunity to be fully heard. After such hearing, the commission shall enter upon a record book or doc...

...If the tracks of a railroad or electric railway cross at grade the tracks of a railroad or electric railway previously constructed, the former shall provide interlocking works or other fixtures satisfactory to the public utilities commission at such crossing, and pay the costs of such fixtures and the expenses of installing them. The maintenance and operation of such fixtures shall be apportioned equally between the ...

...nd maintained in compliance with law by railroads and electric railways where railroads referred to in section 4907.54 of the Revised Code cross each other, engines, trains, or cars of an electric railway may be run over such crossing without stopping.

...A railroad or electric railway refusing or neglecting to comply with an order of the public utilities commission concerning the protection of persons and property from danger at grade crossings of any such railroad over another, or over a swing bridge or drawbridge and at junction points, by providing interlocking works or other fixtures, shall forfeit five hundred dollars per week for each week such railroad refuses...

...clerk of the court of common pleas, the railroad may by motion cause the matter to be docketed as a civil action in said court in which case the original pleadings shall be used and the case shall be advanced for immediate trial. If no such motion is filed, the clerk shall enter up the finding of the public utilities commission as a judgment which shall be in all respects treated as a judgment at law with all the inc...

...of other laws of this state relating to railroads, and for the punishment of all violations of such chapters and such other laws.

...If a railroad fails to perform a duty enjoined upon it by Chapter 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., or 4959. of the Revised Code, or does any act prohibited by any of those chapters, for which failure or act no penalty or forfeiture has been provided by law, or fails to obey a lawful requirement or order made by the public utilities commission or order of any court upon application of the commission, the railr...

...Except as otherwise specifically provided in sections 4905.96 and 4923.99 of the Revised Code, when the attorney general prosecutes an action for the recovery of a forfeiture provided for in Chapter 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., or 4959. of the Revised Code, the attorney general may bring the action in the court of common pleas of Franklin county or of any county having jurisdiction of the d...

...If a railroad does, causes, or permits anything prohibited by Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code to be done, or omits doing anything required to be done by such chapters, such railroad is liable to the person, firm, or corporation injured thereby in treble the amount of damages sustained in consequence of such violation or omission. A recovery provided by this section shall not a...

...fficial capacity of a public utility or railroad shall knowingly violate section 4907.43 of the Revised Code, or willfully fail to comply with any lawful order or direction of the public utilities commission made with respect to any public utility or railroad. Each day's continuance of such failure is a separate offense.

...(A) Whoever violates section 4907.21 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. (B) Whoever violates section 4907.22 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. (C) Whoever violates section 4907.32 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. (D) Whoever violates...

...Street railways, with single or double tracks, sidetracks, and turnouts, may be constructed or extended within or without, or partly within and partly without, any municipal corporation. Offices, depots, and other necessary buildings for street railways may be constructed.