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...on authorizing each zone and subject to public utilities commission approval under this section. (B)(1) Following enactment of an ordinance or resolution under division (A) of this section, the municipal corporation or township shall send a detailed written notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, to each railroad operating over a public grade crossing within the quiet zone. The notice shall request the r...

...sted, to each railroad operating over a public grade crossing included in the zone, the highway or traffic control authority or law enforcement authority having responsibility for control of vehicular traffic at the crossings, the public utilities commission, the director of public safety, and the associate administrator for safety for the federal railroad administration. (B) For each railroad quiet zone established...

... evidence showing that a condition at a public grade crossing located within a quiet zone has changed to such an extent that, even with the continuing existence of the supplemental safety measures at the crossing, the quiet zone no longer qualifies as such under federal law or the commission determines that public safety is otherwise compromised at the crossing. Within fifteen days following the quiet zone susp...

...ection 4955.42 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall inspect each public grade crossing in the zone and issue a report documenting the compliance of the zone with the commission order issued under that section. The commission also may inspect such a crossing at any other time. (C) The commission at any time and by order, after notice and opportunity for the filing of comments, may require at a p...

... money in the grade crossing protection fund created by section 4907.472 of the Revised Code. (F) State grade crossing safety funds may be used to pay part of the costs of additional safety improvements required to establish a railroad quiet zone when the municipal corporation or township establishing the quiet zone complies with sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code if either of the following circumstance...

...No railroad company and no employee or agent of the company shall be charged, or is liable in damages to person or property, for any failure to sound an audible warning by whistle, horn, bell, or other audible warning device at a railroad grade crossing to which any of the following apply: (A) The crossing is equipped in accordance with division (B)(2) of section 4955.32 of the Revised Code. (B) The crossing ...

...erature, and wheel condition. (B) The public utilities commission in conjunction with the department of transportation shall work with each railroad company that does business in this state to ensure that wayside detector systems are installed and are operating along railroad tracks on which the railroad operates and to ensure that such systems meet all of following standards: (1) The systems are properly install...

...he 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: (1) The manner in which wayside detector systems are installed and placed complies with division (A) of this section; (2) The manner in which wayside detector system messages are sent and received compli...

... which a railroad and a street or other public highway cross each other at a grade or otherwise, or the board of county commissioners of a county in which a railroad and a public road or highway cross each other at grade, and the board of directors of the railroad company are of the opinion that the security and convenience of the public require alterations in such crossing, the approaches to such crossing, the locat...

...ng with the grades for the railroad and public way, what land or other property it is necessary to appropriate and how the cost is to be apportioned between the municipal corporation or county and the railroad company, and by whom the work of construction is to be done and how its cost is to be apportioned between the municipal corporation or county and the railroad company. Such resolution shall be published and no...

...In not less than thirty nor more than ninety days after the passage of the resolution referred to in section 4957.02 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners shall determine whether it will proceed with the proposed improvement. If it is decided to proceed with the improvement, an ordinance by the legislative authority or resolution by the board sh...

...The land or property required to make the alteration in the street or highway necessitated by a proposed crossing improvement, shall be purchased or appropriated by the municipal corporation 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 ...

... 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-five per cent.

...ept in repair as follows: (A) When the public way crosses a railroad, or railroad and interurban railroad, by an overhead bridge, the cost of maintenance must be borne by 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...

...sed 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 proceed with such improvement.

...If a railroad company fails to comply with any provision of an agreement entered of record in a court of common pleas as provided in section 4957.03 of the Revised Code, on application of a city director of law or prosecuting attorney, stating the nature of its failure, the court shall make orders and decrees to enforce the terms of the agreement and the requirements of law relating to it, and to secure compliance wi...

...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...

...Any municipal corporation may raise or lower, or cause to be raised or lowered, the grade of any street or way owned by it, either within or without its municipal limits, above or below railroad tracks, and may require any railroad company operating a railroad across such streets or ways to raise or lower the grade of its tracks and may construct ways or crossings above the tracks of any railroad, or require the rail...

...When the legislative authority of a municipal corporation deems it necessary 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 plac...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, for the purpose of making or 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...

...If at the expiration of three months from the passage of the ordinance referred 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 plan...

...Either the municipal corporation or the railroad company, after the expiration of three months from the passage of the ordinance referred to by section 4957.12 of the Revised Code, may apply to the court of common pleas by petition accompanied by the necessary plans prepared by the municipal corporation or company, asking that any grade crossing be abolished. Such plans must show the grades to be established for such...

...her the security and convenience of the public require that alterations be made in the crossing or the approaches to it, or in the location of the railroad or public way, or any grades thereof, so as to avoid a crossing at common grade, or that such crossings, or any of them, be discontinued with or without building a new way in substitution therefor, and whether such plans or any of them are reasonable and practicab...

...If the court finds that the public security and convenience require the changes to be made, and that the plans presented by the petitioner or any of the parties answering thereto are reasonable and practicable, as provided in section 4957.15 of the Revised Code, it shall order the changes to be made in accordance with the most reasonable and practicable plan presented to the court. The municipal corporation shall be ...

...If a municipal corporation or railroad company refuses 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.