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...All laws for the protection of railroads and their property, and all laws relating to or enforcing the duties and obligations of officers, agents, and employees of railroad companies to the public or to railroad companies, shall be applicable to the railroad tracks, property, officers, agents, and employees of a union terminal company.

...erating union electric interurban terminals and depots and connecting tracks. Union electric interurban terminal and depot companies may be organized in the manner provided by law for the creation of corporations generally.

...A union electric interurban terminal and depot company may receive grants from the legislative authority of a municipal corporation for the use of its streets or alleys upon the same terms as street railways, which grant shall continue as long as the grants, and renewals and relettings of such grants, continue to any interurban railroad or street railway connecting with such company's depot or tracks. It may construc...

...Union electric interurban terminal and depot companies may appropriate private lands for the purpose of connecting their main tracks, terminals, and depots with their own tracks and with the tracks of any other interurban electric railroad company, 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...

...All charges made by union electric interurban terminal and depot companies for the use of their tracks and terminal depot facilities shall be on the same basis against each company using them and no preference in charges shall be given one company over another. Such union electric interurban terminal and depot company shall not charge any interurban railroad or street or other electric railway company, for the use o...

...in, and extending to or into any municipal corporation or place named as a terminus of its railroad.

...and wires may be constructed through or along the streets, alleys, or public grounds of a municipal corporation, plans of the construction must be submitted to and approved by its legislative authority.

... Revised Code. Any railroad company may also own and operate equipment for and engage in the business of aerial transportation. Any railroad company may acquire, own, and hold capital stock and securities of corporations organized for or engaged in the businesses authorized in this section and may operate the properties, or any part thereof, of such corporations, and may enter into working arrangements and agre...

...ation of the railroad in that county, shall make and acknowledge a certificate definitely fixing the location in such county and file it with the secretary of state.

... board of directors, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, with the written consent of three fourths in interest of its stockholders, a railroad company may change the line of railroad, or any part thereof, and either of the proposed termini, of its railroad. No change shall be made which will involve the abandonment of any part of the railroad, either partly or completely constructed. Any subscription of stock m...

...ne 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.

... line of whose railroad has not been finally located in whole or in part, finds it necessary, in order to avoid dangerous or difficult curves, grades, or dangerous or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or for other reasonable cause, to pass through a county not named in the articles of incorporation, or to avoid passing into or through a county named in them, other than a county in which a terminus of the railroad...

...ages caused by the change or diversion. All subscribers to the capital stock of the company on the line of that part of its railroad so changed shall be released from all obligation to pay their subscriptions. Saving the rights of infants, incompetent individuals, and persons imprisoned, for six months after their disability is removed, no action shall be brought for damages caused by such change or diversion, unle...

...rves or grades, or unsafe or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or when the roadbed has been injured or destroyed by the current of a river, watercourse, or other unavoidable or reasonable cause, a railroad company may change the location or grade of any portion of its railroad, but shall not depart from the general route prescribed in the articles of incorporation.

...he Revised Code, the railroad company shall have all rights, powers, and privileges to enter upon and appropriate lands in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...rty, the railroad company is liable for all damages occasioned by the change to the owner of the land upon which the railroad was first constructed.

...rom the main line of railroad to municipal corporations or places within the limits of a county through or into which its railroad passes or to a connection with any railroad within this state, or to any coal or other mine, stone-quarry, plastic-clay, pottery-clay, and fire clay pits or banks, marl beds, sand or gravel pits or banks, asphalt deposits, slag banks, or ore or shale banks, if, at a meeting of the stockho...

...company, domestic or foreign, or municipal corporation which owns or operates a railroad may enter upon any land for the purpose of examining and surveying its railroad line, and may appropriate so much of such land as is necessary for its railroad including necessary sidetracks, depots, workshops, roundhouses, and water-stations, material for construction, except timber, a right of way over adjacent lands sufficient...

... to such companies, acquired by gift, shall be void unless the company to which they are made completes its railroad on the right of way so conveyed within five years from the time of a conveyance for that purpose.

... date purporting to transfer title to real estate has been executed by an officer or officers other than the president of such railroad company, as provided by section 4961.15 of the Revised Code, such deed and the recordation thereof shall be deemed to have been properly executed as of October 2, 1953 and shall be valid in all respects. Any person claiming title adverse thereto, has the right within two years after ...

...und lying within the limits of a municipal corporation and dedicated to the public for use as a public ground, common, landing, or wharf, or for any other public purpose, except all streets, avenues, alleys, or public roads, such company may appropriate an easement over so much of such ground as is necessary for such purpose, including the right to maintain the necessary piers and supports for the elevated track. Suc...

...f the Revised Code may be made, there shall be submitted to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation general plans of the proposed structure showing the manner, character, and location of all supports, any part of which will be upon public ground, common landing, or wharf, and also the vertical and longitudinal clearances between the supports. No right to appropriate shall accrue to the railroad company...

...o a meeting of its stockholders, to be called for that purpose by notice published for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper in general circulation in each county through or into which the railroad passes. If the holders of a majority of the stock, in person or by proxy, so determine, the president and board, or a majority of it, shall make a certificate of the fact, naming the place of the new termini of the road...

...ry in the construction, reconstruction, alteration, or improvement of its railroad, or in making additions to or relocating such railroad, to cross a road or a stream of water, a railroad company may divert it from its location or bed, but without unnecessary delay it shall place such road or stream in such condition as not to impair its former usefulness.

...ates of toll for the passage of individuals, vehicles of all kinds, or animals, as it fixes, subject to the approval of the board of county commissioners of the county in which such bridge is erected. Rates of toll shall be uniform, shall be printed or painted and kept conspicuously posted in or near the tollhouse of the bridge, and may be revised and changed in the first week of each year. The company may compound ...