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...rtion of the cost of the proposed grade crossing improvement that the company shall pay.

...The proportion of the cost of a grade crossing improvement to be paid by the state shall be paid by the director of transportation, upon estimates, out of any fund appropriated to the department of transportation available for the establishment, construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of highways, funds contributed by the local subdivisions, and funds contributed by the federal government. T...

...a full written description of the grade crossing which it is proposed to abolish, showing its location, the reasons which tend to make necessary its elimination, the names of the railroads or interurban railways owning the tracks crossing such state or intercounty highway, and the manner in which the improvement proposed should be accomplished. On receipt of such description the director shall conduct a hearing as t...

...rtion of the cost of the proposed grade crossing improvement which such company shall pay.

...pports necessitated by a proposed grade crossing improvement, and the land or property required to make any alteration in the railroad, necessitated by the proposed improvements, shall be purchased or appropriated by the county or railroad company in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The county shall not appropriate land held or owned by a railroad company and neces...

...l corporation in which a proposed grade crossing improvement is to be made may assume and agree to pay to the county, on behalf of the municipal corporation such portion of the costs of the improvement assumed by the county as the board of township trustees or legislative authority deem reasonable. For the purpose of raising the money to pay the proportion of the cost of such improvement payable by the county, towns...

...director of transportation that a grade crossing improvement is reasonably necessary and expedient, the board of county commissioners or any railroad or interurban railway company may, upon the question of such necessity and expediency, take an appeal to the public utilities commission. A party desiring to take such an appeal shall file with the director written notice of its intention within thirty days after servic...

...e hundred thousand dollars to the grade crossing protection fund for the purposes specified by section 4907.472 of the Revised Code; (2) Of such revenue remaining after crediting under division (A)(1) of this section, five and two thousand nine hundred forty-two ten thousandths per cent shall be credited to the highway operating fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury, and ninety-four and seven thousand ...

... an order permitting such crossing at a grade or diversion to be established. In such order, the court may prescribe that gates, signals, watchmen, or other safeguards shall be maintained by the railroad company, in addition to the signals and safeguards prescribed by law, and all such orders shall be binding upon the parties and be observed by them. All costs and expenses of the proceedings shall be ascertained an...

...at a convenient grade on a street, such crossings shall be made with crossing-frogs of the most approved pattern and materials, and shall be kept in repair at the joint expense of the companies owning such tracks.

...r, or in any way connecting at a common grade, by works or fixtures to be erected by them render it safe to pass over those crossings without stopping, and the works and fixtures first are approved by the public utilities commission, and the plan thereof for the crossing, designating the plan of crossing, has been filed with the commission, sections 4955.10 to 4955.15 of the Revised Code do not apply. If the commissi...

... eliminating one or more existing grade crossings on any road or highway on the state highway system or any extension thereof, the director of transportation may relocate any portion of a road or highway on the system or any portion of any extension thereof; or the director may raise or lower the grade of any road or highway on the system or of any extension thereof, above or below the existing tracks of a railroad a...

...of its 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...

...y, in the elimination of existing grade crossings, to change the location of any highway on the state highway system or any extension of the system, the director of transportation may relocate the highway or any part thereof, or the extension or any part thereof, and may vacate the whole or any portion of such highway or extension no longer needed by reason of such relocation, and cause the improvement contemplated t...

..., to secure the elimination of existing grade crossings. The cost and expense of such relocation and reconstruction, widening, reconstruction, or realignment shall be borne by the state, or by the state and any other political subdivision in which the crossing is located, and by the railroad company in the proportions set out in sections 5523.01 to 5523.20 of the Revised Code, in relation to the elimination of existi...

...cks, 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 p...

...ion of highways in order to avoid grade crossings.

... laws regulating the abolition of grade crossings.

...unty highway, and may construct ways or crossings for such highway above the tracks of any railroad and parallel and adjacent interurban railway, or require the railroad company and any interurban railway company operating an interurban railway, parallel and adjacent to such railroad, to construct ways or crossings therefor that are to be passed under its tracks. Such companies may be required to erect permanent pier...

...f the teaching of any school district's graded course of study by the continued presence of the pupil in a public school setting; (i) Evidence regarding the availability of alternative sanctions of a less serious nature than permanent exclusion that would enable the pupil to remain in a public school setting without posing a significant danger to the health and safety of other pupils or of school employees and wit...

...ection does not apply at railroad grade crossings. Conduct of drivers of vehicles, trackless trolleys, and streetcars approaching railroad grade crossings shall be governed by sections 4511.61 and 4511.62 of the Revised Code.

...iring 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 regulating the speed and running of trains or of cars and the switching of cars over such crossing or street, and it shall apportion the expense of installation or maintenance of such devices between the railroad companies whose tra...

...y highways, shall be above or below the grade thereof.

...on pleas of the county within which the crossing or diversion is situated. If it is the authority constructing a highway asking for the right to cross a railroad, the railroad company shall be the defendant. If it is a railroad company asking for the right to cross a highway, or divert, change, or alter any existing public highway in a municipal corporation, such municipal corporation shall be the defendant. If outsi...

... improper obstruction of railroad grade crossings by trains is a direct threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of this state inasmuch as improper obstructions create uniquely different local safety problems by preventing the timely movement of ambulances, the vehicles of law enforcement officers and firefighters, and official and unofficial vehicles transporting health care officials and profession...