Ohio Revised Code Search

...all include: (A) The transportation of passengers and property between points within this state; (B) The receiving, switching, delivering, storing, and handling of such property; (C) All charges connected with divisions (A) and (B) of this section, including icing charges and mileage charges; (D) All railroad companies, sleeping car companies, equipment companies, express companies, car companies, freight and fre...

...When passengers or property are transported over connecting railroads in this state operated by two or more railroads which establish joint rates, fares, and charges, a schedule thereof, compiled as provided in section 4907.25 of the Revised Code, shall be printed, filed with the public utilities commission, and filed in every depot, station, and office of such railroads where passengers or property are received for ...

...ve lines, for forwarding and delivering passengers and property, and shall transfer and deliver, without unreasonable delay or discrimination, loaded or empty cars, freight, or passengers, destined to a point on its own or connecting lines. Precedence over other freight may be given to livestock and perishable freight.

...ive lines for forwarding and delivering passengers and property, and without unreasonable delay or discrimination shall transfer, switch, and deliver freight or passenger cars destine to a point on its own or connecting lines. Precedence may be given to livestock and perishable freight over other freight. Whenever a derailing device is required at the intersection of any railroads mentioned in this section, it ...

...When passengers or property are transported over two or more connecting railroads between points in this state, and the railroad companies have made joint rates for the transportation of such passengers or property, such rates and all charges in connection therewith shall be just and reasonable. Every unjust and unreasonable charge is prohibited. A less charge by each of such railroads for its proportion of suc...

...23 of the Revised Code for transporting passengers within the municipal corporation shall not be greater than that fixed in the franchise held or owned by the street railway company. When there is a public park or cemetery on the line of such railway, within one mile of, and owned by, such municipal corporation, such company for such fare must so transport passengers to and from such park or cemetery the same as if e...

... this state any car for the carriage of passengers, or upon which passengers are carried, which does not have, parallel with the tracks upon which such car is being operated, a center aisle running the length of the car and suitable for quick and easy passage to and fro on the part of the employees of such company and the traveling public. Each day's violation of this section constitutes a separate offense. A viola...

... and highways for the transportation of passengers, it must be provided, as one of the considerations for such use of the public highways, that such traction companies or motor or bus transportation companies shall carry free as passengers on all regular cars and busses, policemen and firemen when on duty and in uniform.

...No officer, agent, or employee in authority of a corporation, individual, or association shall direct or permit to be operated an electric car other than a trail car, whether such electric car is a passenger car, a freight car, a sweeper, or other car, unprovided at the forward end with a screen of glass or other material sufficient to completely protect from dust, wind, and storm the motorman or other person station...

...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...

...A company or person operating a railroad within this state shall place a blackboard, at least four feet in length and two feet in width, in a conspicuous place in each passenger depot of such company located at any station in the state at which there is a telegraph office. Such company or person must have written upon such board, at least ten minutes before the schedule time for the arrival of each passenger train st...

...e of railroad for the transportation of passengers and freight shall erect and maintain in complete working order, for use along the line of its railroad, a telegraph or telephone wire, with an office and proper means for communication by such wire at each of its principal stations. No such company operating a railroad without a telegraph or telephone wire along the line of such railroad, shall ask or receive any com...

...d and receive for the transportation of passengers on its railroad, a fare not exceeding three cents per mile, for a distance of more than five miles, but the fare shall always be made that multiple of five nearest reached by multiplying the rate by the distance.

...ggage, shall be transported as such for passengers by all railroad companies, and are subject to the same charges and liabilities as other baggage. No passenger shall be required to crate, cover, or otherwise protect a bicycle. Such companies are not required to transport more than one bicycle for a single person.

...(A) A conductor of any train carrying passengers or of the cars of any interurban railroad carrying passengers, and a ticket agent employed in or about a railroad or interurban railroad station, while on duty on the train or cars, or in or about the station, who has probable cause to believe that a person has committed an offense may detain the person in a reasonable manner and for a reasonable length of time within ...

...ars of any interurban railroad carrying passengers within this state shall willfully neglect his duty as required by sections 4973.24 and 4973.25 of the Revised Code, or fail to use all the means in his power to carry out such sections. Whoever violates this section is guilty of negligence of official duty.

...(A) There is hereby created the Ohio rail development commission, as an independent agency of the state within the department of transportation, consisting of the following members: (1) Two members of the Ohio senate, one of whom shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the president of the senate and one of whom shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the minority leader of the senate; (2) T...

...oad for the carrying or transporting of passengers or freight over its railroad within this state which fails to erect and maintain telegraph or telephone wires in complete working order for use and operation along its railroad, with an office and proper means of communication by such wires at each of its principal railway stations, shall order, direct, advise, ask, demand, or receive compensation for transportation ...

...(A) As used in this section, "qualified county" means a county to which both of the following apply: (1) It has a population between one million one hundred thousand and one million three hundred thousand as of the most recent federal decennial census; (2) As of the effective date of this section, an existing public passenger commuter rail service is operated in that county and does not operate in any other cou...

...(A) Notwithstanding sections 125.12, 125.13, and 125.14 of the Revised Code, the director of transportation may sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any item of personal property that is not needed by the department of transportation. The director may exchange any such item, in the manner provided for in this chapter, and pay the balance of the cost of such new item from funds appropriated to the department. The d...

... when engaged in the transportation of passengers or property, by boat or other watercraft, over any waterway, whether natural or artificial, from one point within this state to another point within this state, or between points within this state and points without this state; (8) Is a heating company when engaged in the business of supplying water, steam, or air through pipes or tubing to consumers within thi...

...When a municipal corporation owns real estate suitable for the location of a passenger railroad station, and the legislative authority of such municipal corporation, by ordinance, declares it necessary that such land be devoted to such use, the municipal corporation may sell, lease or exchange such land to a railroad for such purpose as provided in section 721.13 of the Revised Code.

...(A)(1) Subject to divisions (A)(2) and (B) of this section, every appointing authority shall require each of its appointed peace officers and troopers to complete twenty-four hours of continuing professional training each calendar year. Twenty-four hours is intended to be a minimum requirement, and appointing authorities are encouraged to exceed the twenty-four hour minimum. A minimum of twenty-four hours of continui...

...ply of motor vehicles designed to carry passengers which shall be made available for the use of any state agency needing transportation facilities of an intermittent or temporary nature. The director of administrative services shall fix the rates of charge for the use of such motor vehicles at a level sufficient to operate, maintain, and replace the fleet of vehicles. Such charges shall be collected by the director a...

...As used in sections 125.831 to 125.834 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alternative fuel" means any of the following fuels used in a motor vehicle: (1) E85 blend fuel; (2) Blended biodiesel; (3) Natural gas; (4) Liquefied petroleum gas; (5) Hydrogen; (6) Compressed air; (7) Any power source, including electricity; (8) Any fuel not described in divisions (A)(1) to (7) of this section that the United States ...