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...eries of connected devices that scan passing trains, rolling stock, on-track equipment, and their component equipment and parts for defects. (2) "Defects" include hot wheel bearings, hot wheels, defective bearings that are detected through acoustics, dragging equipment, excessive height or weight, shifted loads, low hoses, rail temperature, and wheel condition. (3) "Class I carrier," "class II carrier," and "clas...

...Except as otherwise provided in sections 4955.55 and 4955.57 of the Revised Code, any person responsible for the installation of wayside detector systems alongside or on a railroad shall ensure that each system location is the following distance from the adjacent system location: (A) For a class I carrier railroad, not more than ten miles; (B) For a class II carrier railroad, not more than twenty-five miles; (C...

...etector system detects a defect in a passing train, rolling stock, on-track equipment, or its component equipment and parts, if the message regarding the defect is not immediately sent to the operator of that train, rolling stock, or on-track equipment, the person that receives the message shall immediately notify the operator of the defect.

...The department of transportation and the public utilities commission, as part of their work with each railroad company under division (B) of section 4955.50 of the Revised Code, shall ensure both of the following: (A) The manner in which wayside detector systems are installed and placed complies with section 4955.51 of the Revised Code; (B) The manner in which wayside detector system messages are sent and receive...

...the placement of the next adjacent wayside detector system location to be within the spacing requirements described in section 4955.51 of the Revised Code, the next adjacent system location shall be not more than five miles from the maximum spacing allowed in that section. (B) For class II carriers and class III carriers, prior to the installation of a wayside detector system outside the applicable spacing requirem...

...ons 4955.50 to 4955.52 of the Revised Code.

... public require alterations in such crossing, the approaches to such crossing, the location of the railroad or public way, or the grades thereof, so as to avoid a crossing at grade, or that such crossing should be discontinued with or without building a new way in substitution for it, and if they agree as to the alterations they may be made as provided in sections 4957.02 to 4957.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code. T...

...on or abolition of a grade or other crossing, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to it, or the board of county commissioners of the county, by a unanimous vote, by resolution, shall declare such necessity and intent, and state in it the manner in which the alterations in the crossing are to be made, giving the method of constructing the new crossing...

...on pleas of the county in which the crossing is located for entry upon its records, whereupon it shall have the same effect as a decree of the court.

...orporation or county in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The land or property required to make the alteration in the railroad necessitated by the proposed improvement shall be purchased or appropriated by the railroad company in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The municipal corporation or county may also acquir...

...onstruction 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 shall pay eighty-fiv...

... the county or the state as may be provided by law. (B) When the public way passes under a railroad, or railroad and interurban railroad, the bridge and its abutments shall be kept and maintained by the railroad company, or the railroad company and interurban railroad company, as the case may be, in such proportions as are fixed by agreement between the parties or, in the absence of such agreement, in such proportio...

...f a crossing improvement, filed as provided in section 4957.02 of the Revised Code, shall be assessed and determined as in other cases of public improvements within cities, wherein like claims are made, either before the beginning or after the completion of the proposed crossing improvement, as the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or board of county commissioners decides, when it is determined to pr...

...ion of its railroad on and over the crossing in question until it complies with the order or decree as is made.

...When a grade crossing is on a county line road, the boards of county commissioners of the counties in which such crossing is situated may join in all the proceedings necessary for the abolition of such grade crossing. That part of the cost of making such change in the crossing and of keeping it in repair which is not agreed to be paid by the railroad company shall be paid by the counties in equal proportions. The mo...

...ts tracks and may construct ways or crossings above the tracks of any railroad, or require the railroad company to construct ways or crossings that are to be passed under its tracks. "Railroad" includes interurban railroads and "railroad company" includes interurban railroad companies engaged in the operation of cars by electricity or other motive power. Any municipal corporation may require such railroad company to ...

...cessary in the abolishment of grade crossings to change the location of any street, alley, road, or way such legislative authority may relocate such street, alley, road, or way, or any part thereof, may vacate the whole or any portion of such street, alley, road, or way abandoned by such relocation, and cause the improvements contemplated to be placed in such relocated street, alley, road, or way.

... causing a crossing improvement to be made, by ordinance may require the railroad company, in co-operation with the engineer of the municipal corporation, or the engineer designated in such ordinance, to prepare and submit to such legislative authority, within three months unless longer time is mutually agreed upon in writing, plans and specifications for such improvement, specifying the number, character, and locati...

... to in section 4957.12 of the Revised Code, the railroad company has refused or failed to co-operate in the preparation of plans and specifications, or if the engineer of the municipal corporation, or engineer designated in such ordinance by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and the company fail to agree upon the plans and specifications for such improvement, then either the company or municipal...

...n or company, asking that any grade crossing be abolished. Such plans must show the grades to be established for such streets, the changes to be made in the location of streets, alleys, roads, or ways, the height, character, and estimated cost of any viaduct or way above or below railroad tracks, the number, character, and location of piers, abutments, and supports to be permanently located in the streets, alleys, ro...

...her plans for the abolition of such crossing. After the expiration of such period of sixty days, the court shall proceed to a hearing upon the petition and any answers that have been filed, which hearing must be advanced upon the docket upon motion of either party. After examination of all plans presented to it and after hearing the evidence, the court shall make a finding as to whether the security and convenience ...

...than one company owns tracks on the crossing in question, the court shall apportion the part of the expenses payable by the companies among such companies. If the court finds that the security and convenience of the public do not require that alterations be made in such crossing, or that none of the plans are reasonable or practicable, the improvement shall not be made upon such plans. Either party feeling aggrieved...

...efuses or neglects to comply with the orders or findings made by the court as provided in section 4957.16 of the Revised Code, the court may enforce its orders or findings by either mandamus or mandatory injunction, or as for contempt of court, as the necessity of the case requires, upon the application of either party to such proceedings.

..., 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 owners of abutting or other property, shall be borne, unless otherwise agreed upon, eighty-five per cent by the municipal corporation and fifteen per ...

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