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...Each railroad shall provide and maintain adequate depots and depot buildings at its regular stations for the accomodation of passengers. Such depot buildings shall be kept clean, well-lighted, and warmed, for the comfort and accomodation of the traveling public. Each railroad shall provide and maintain adequate and suitable freight depots, buildings, switches, and sidetracks for receiving, handling, and delivering f...

...The public utilities commission has the same control over private tracks, so far as such tracks are used by common carriers in connection with a railroad for the transportation of freight, as it has over the tracks of such railroad.

...ishable property. The public utilities commission may enforce reasonable regulations for furnishing cars to shippers, switching, loading, and unloading cars, and the weighing of cars and freight offered for shipment over any railroad.

...Railroad companies as between themselves, and interurban railroads and electric railways as between themselves, shall afford reasonable and proper facilities for interchange of traffic between their respective 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 i...

...o file complaint, the public utilities commission shall proceed to hear and determine the same in a manner provided for making investigations upon complaint. If upon such hearing the commission finds that it is practicable and reasonably necessary to accommodate the public, to connect such tracks and that when so connected it will be practicable to transport cars over such railroad without endangering the equi...

... the superintendent, or other executive officer of the company operating such railroad, notice of the condition thereof, and of the repairs or reconstruction necessary to place them in a safe condition. The commission shall prescribe the time within which such repairs or reconstruction must be made, and the rate of speed for trains passing over such dangerous or defective track, bridge, or other structure, until the ...

... 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 run the passenger trains over such defective tra...

...tion 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 the superintendent, manager, or other officer in charge of such railroad a written order of what is required, and shall assign the cost of installing any such device between the railroad and the public in any proportion it determines proper that is consistent with any applicable federal requirements, after giving due consideration to the factors listed in division (B) of this section. (B) In assigning the cost of ...

...e the superintendent, manager, or other officer in charge of the railroad a written order of the protective devices required and the date by which any action shall be completed, and shall assign to the parties the cost of installing and maintaining the protective devices in any proportion it determines proper that is consistent with any applicable federal requirements, after giving due consideration to the factors li...

...tion is ordered by the public utilities commission pursuant to section 4907.47, 4907.471, or 4907.49 of the Revised Code; (2) The costs incurred by the commission in administering sections 4907.47 to 4907.476 of the Revised Code. (B) Moneys for the fund shall be provided from the motor fuel tax levied under section 5735.05 of the Revised Code and any federal funds apportioned and allocated to the state for the redu...

...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.

... the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall determine as to each crossing whether there is a demonstrable need for such crossing to exist and whether the crossing could be closed to vehicular traffic, or to pedestrian traffic, or to both, and the travel over the crossing diverted to other crossings. In making this determination, the commission shall consider all of the following: (1) The daily vehicular...

...(A) If the public utilities commission finds that there is not a demonstrable need for the crossing to exist according to the factors listed in divisions (A)(1) to (9) of section 4907.474 of the Revised Code and that the crossing could be closed to vehicular traffic, or to pedestrian traffic, or to both, and the travel over the crossing diverted to other crossings, and if the crossing is on a road or highway other th...

... 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 of transportation make final decisions for the state in ...

...r the direction of the public utilities commission shall be built within the time, in the manner, and of materials approved by the commission. Such devices so authorized shall be located in the highway 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 ...

...nd 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 the use of automatic bells or other mechanical devices by a railroad at a public crossing not declared dangerous by the public utilities commission, nor do they prevent state, county, township, or municipal officials ...

...es was approved by the public utilities commission, and a plan thereof prepared by such railroads and filed with the commission.

... in the opinion of the public utilities commission any system of interlocking works or fixtures referred to in section 4907.50 of the Revised Code proves to be unsafe or impracticable, the commission may order than no engines or trains shall pass over any such crossing or bridge without stopping, and the laws regulating the running of engines and trains shall apply. Before such order is made or enforced the commissio...

... 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 requiring the railroads so intersecting and crossing to install such devices as in the opinion of the commission will properly protect such crossing. The commission may make any other orders reg...

...ed 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 docket kept for that purpose an order granting or denying ...

...es 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 railroads by the commission. This section does not apply to crossings of sidetracks only.

...When interlocking works or other fixtures are constructed and 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.

...y 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 or neglects to obey such orders. Such forfeiture shall be rec...

...fied as replies in civil cases. At the expiration of said period of two weeks the commission shall proceed summarily to examine the complaint, answer, reply, and affidavits, and shall determine the existence and validity of the claim presented. If the commission finds in favor of the claimant it shall certify its findings to the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county in which the claimant resides or w...