Ohio Revised Code Search

...When the part of the railway of an inclined-plane railway company which 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 ...

...ion, without charge, except for cost of construction, provided that such placing shall not interfere with the company's use of the subway.

...s responsible for injuries done by such construction to private or public property lying upon or near such streets, alleys, ways, or grounds, 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.

...n of any neglect or carelessness in the construction or maintenance of any such fence, crossing, or cattleguard, whether 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 betw...

...mized statement of the expenses of such construction. If such person or company neglects or refuses for thirty days to pay such account, such landowner may recover the reasonable cost of such fence from the owner of the railroad or railway in any court of competent jurisdiction.

... for acquiring depot sites, and for the construction of main track to avoid dangerous or difficult curves or grades or unsafe or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or to extend or shorten their railroad lines. Such power to appropriate property shall be exercised in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...y apportion the initial expense of such construction or crossing and the expense of maintenance among the parties interested. A party feeling aggrieved by the decision of the court shall have the right of appeal as in other civil cases. Unless the companies agree upon the compensation to be paid for the land occupied by such crossing, the court shall submit that question to a jury as provided in other cases for the...

...n of the road or highway shall meet the construction standards applicable to the road or highway of which the restored portion is a part. (B) No railroad shall fail to remove from a crossing the rails that comprise a track whose abandonment has been approved or fail to fill the space previously occupied by the rails as required by division (A) of this section.

...A person or company owning or operating a railroad that fails to comply with the requirements of or violates section 4955.23 of the Revised Code, for each day during the continuance of such failure or violation, shall forfeit to such city one hundred dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the city's name against the owner or operator of such railroad, or both, as the city elects. Like recovery may be had for s...

... for all the reasonable expense of such construction, not exceeding fifty dollars, which he may recover in an action against such company or person.

...r occupants of lands adjoining, for the construction or maintenance of railroad crossings.

...vised Code, he shall submit the plan of construction to the public utilities commission for its approval, which at the cost of such person for traveling expenses or otherwise, must see that the structure in all respects conforms to the requirements of such section.

...nges to the crossing and roadway due to construction or improvements. (B) Once every three years after the date of first operation of a railroad quiet zone established pursuant to section 4955.42 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall inspect each public grade crossing in the zone and issue a report documenting the compliance of the zone with the commission order issued under that section. The co...

...ilroad company, and by whom the work of construction is to be done and how its cost is to be apportioned between the municipal corporation or county and the railroad company. Such resolution shall be published and notice of its passage given to owners of property abutting on the proposed improvement, in the manner provided as to resolutions of a city legislative authority declaring the necessity of a contemplated pu...

...ny, and who shall supervise the work of construction. Upon the acceptance of this resolution or ordinance by resolution by the company through its board of directors, it shall constitute an agreement, valid and binding on the municipal corporation or county and the company respectively. Such agreement shall be filed in the court of common pleas of the county in which the crossing is located for entry upon its records...

...The cost of the construction of the improvement in a crossing, including the cost of land or property purchased or appropriated, and the payment of damages to abutting property shall be apportioned as follows: (A) The railroad company, or companies if several railroads cross a public way at or near the same point, shall pay, unless otherwise agreed upon, fifteen per cent; (B) The municipal corporation or county sha...

...acks, or the raising or lowering of the construction of such ways, crossings, or other supports may be necessary, upon the conditions set forth in sections 4957.10 to 4957.26, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...ion 4957.25 of the Revised Code and all construction work of whatever character necessary to support such tracks.

...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 cross a highway, or divert, change, or alter any existing public highway ...

...ic 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 track to such wire or other struct...

...uard, or neglect or carelessness in the construction or keeping in repair of such fence, crossing, or cattle guard.

...or occupants of lands adjoining for the construction or maintenance of fences and cattle guards.

...f a municipal corporation, plans of the construction must be submitted to and approved by its legislative authority.

...e has issued its mortgage bonds for the construction of its railroad, the record of the mortgage securing them, in each county through or into which the changed line of the railroad passes, is as effectual to create a lien upon the changed line of railroad and upon the property of the company as if the mortgage contained a complete description of the changed line and of such property.