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...Each railroad company owning and occupying a right of way or easement in lands, either by agreement with the owners or by virtue of an appropriation proceeding, shall present to the county auditor of the county in which the land is situated a statement of the quantity embraced within the right of way or easement. Such quantity shall be deducted by the auditor from the land on the tax duplicate so that the owners shal...

...Any company using or occupying any land as a right of way, without paper title or contract of record therefor, shall present a correct survey and plat of such land, exhibiting the quantity in such right of way taken from the lands of an owner abutting on it, as it then stands on the tax duplicate of such county, to the county auditor of the county in which the land is situated. The auditor shall charge such land, so ...

...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...

...iting room for the use of the traveling public at each station where a passenger train of the railroad is regularly scheduled to stop. Such room shall be so maintained and kept as to be conducive to the comfort and health of the patrons of the railroad. Where any such waiting room is located within a municipal corporation within reasonable connecting distance of a water supply and sewerage system, there shall be prov...

...zens of this state being filed with the public utilities commission that section 4963.02 of the Revised Code is being violated the commission shall forthwith make investigation thereof. If it is found that such violation exists, it shall issue an order to the person, firm, or corporation guilty of such violation setting forth the nature of the improvement required and directing that it be completed within a time to b...

... and paid into the state treasury. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section. This section does not apply in case of a passenger car attached to a freight train.

...his own instance or the instance of the public utilities commission, as provided by law in other cases for the recovery of penalties and forfeitures against railroad companies, after due notice given by the commission to the president or managing officer of such delinquent company, and the company's further neglect for thirty days to comply with this section.

...renders them durable and efficient. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section. No person, company, or corporation operating a railroad in whole or in part in this state shall violate this section. Each day that such person, company, or corporation runs its trains in violation of this section constitutes a separate offense.

...Companies and persons operating a railroad shall so regulate the distance between station floors or platforms and the top of the lowest step on passenger cars so that it will not exceed twelve inches. When the distance is more than one foot, it shall be changed or safe steps provided for passengers within that limit. A company failing to comply with this section shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than five h...

...t to thirty minutes after sunrise. The public utilities commission shall enforce, and prosecute any violations of this section.

...A common carrier may refuse to receive from connecting railroads or from any shipper a car not equipped in accordance with sections 4963.09 to 4963.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...ng attorney shall bring such suit. The public utilities commission shall give the proper prosecuting attorney information of any such violations as comes to its knowledge. Such sections do not apply to locomotives, tenders, cars, or trains used exclusively in the movement of logs when the height of the drawbars of such locomotives, tenders, and cars does not exceed twenty-five inches, to street cars, or to locomoti...

...Any employee of a common carrier engaged in moving traffic on a railroad between points within this state, who is killed or injured by a locomotive, tender, car, similar vehicle, or train, in use contrary to sections 4963.14 and 4963.15 of the Revised Code, shall not be deemed to have assumed the risk thereby occasioned, although continuing in the employment of such carrier after the unlawful use of such locomotive, ...

...he same applies to and obtains from the public utilities commission authority to use the same temporarily.

... with his foot, to open such door. The public utilities commission shall enforce, and prosecute any violations of, this section.

...ipped with two or more footboards. The public utilities commission shall prescribe the dimensions, location, and the manner of application of said footboards. As used in this section, "regularly assigned" means more than three consecutive days. No railroad doing business in this state shall send or cause to be sent out on its railroad a locomotive which is not equipped in accordance with this section. The commiss...

...d as required by this section. (C) The public utilities commission or any law enforcement officer for any county in which the railroad operates shall enforce this section in any court of competent jurisdiction. (D) Any locomotive shall be exempt from the provisions of this section if it is being used exclusively in industrial plants or in yard service, or being used exclusively in connection with switching service ...

...Every railroad company, or person in charge of a railroad as manager or receiver, shall keep the right of way clear from weeds, high grass, and decayed timber which from nature or condition are combustible and liable to take or communicate fire from passing locomotives to abutting or adjacent property. Such company is liable for all damages sustained by the owner or occupant of such property from carelessness or negl...

...Every company, or the receiver of such company, operating a railroad or a part of a railroad is liable for all loss or damage by fires originating upon the land belonging to such company caused by operating such railroad. Such company or receiver is liable for all loss or damage by fires originating on lands adjacent to its land caused in whole or part by sparks from an engine passing over such railroad, and the exer...

...In no case shall it be considered as negligence on the part of the owner or occupant of property injured by fire as provided by section 4963.37 of the Revised Code, that he used or permitted it to be used and remain as if no railroad passed through or near such property. This section does not apply in cases of injury by fire to personalty which at the time was on the property occupied by such railroad.

...If either party appeals from the judgment of a court in which an action under sections 4963.37 and 4963.38 of the Revised Code is begun, the party in whose favor judgment finally is rendered shall have included in his bill of costs against the adverse party, an attorney fee of fifty dollars, if it is not carried beyond the court of appeals. If carried to the supreme court, an attorney fee of one hundred dollars shal...

...The public utilities commission shall determine standards of maintenance and operation and the nature, location, and character of the construction to be used where telegraph, telephone, electric light, power, or other electric wires of any kind cross or more or less parallel the line of a railroad, interurban railroad, or other public utility, and to this end shall formulate and issue rules, regulations, and complete...

...The public utilities commission shall enforce section 4963.40 of the Revised Code, and for that purpose shall have power to cause the removal of such telegraph, telephone, electric light, power, or other electric wires of any kind crossing or paralleling such other line and not in accordance with the rules, regulations, and specifications issued by it.

...p of rail, except in cases in which the public utilities commission finds that such placement or construction is impracticable. This section does not apply to structures in existence on August 25, 1927. The commission may prescribe rules and regulations governing all such placement and construction.

...Every railroad company, public or private corporation, or person proposing to build any structure or place any material as set forth in section 4963.42 of the Revised Code, with a lesser clearance from the center of the track than is prescribed in such section, before proceeding therewith, shall file with the public utilities commission plans and specifications for such structure or material and have its permit for t...