Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4961 - Special Powers Of Railroads

• Section 4961.01 - Tracks Maintained And Operated By Railroads.
  Any railroad company may maintain and operate, or construct, maintain, and operate, a railroad, with such main tracks, sidetracks, turnouts, offices, depots, roundhouses, machine...
• Section 4961.02 - Electricity As Motive Power.
  Upon any railroad in this state, electricity may be used as a motive power in the propulsion of cars. Before a line of poles...
• Section 4961.03 - Highway And Aerial Transportation Authorized.
  Any railroad company owning or operating a railroad in this state may own, control, operate, or manage motor vehicles for the purpose of transporting...
• Section 4961.04 - Terminus On State Line.
  When a terminus named in the articles of incorporation of a railroad company is a county upon the line or boundary of the state,...
• Section 4961.05 - Changes Of Line Or Termini.
  By a resolution adopted by a majority of its board of directors, at a meeting duly called for the purpose, with the written consent...
• Section 4961.06 - Mortgage On Changed Line Of Railroad.
  When the company referred to in section 4961.05 of the Revised Code has issued its mortgage bonds for the construction of its railroad, the...
• Section 4961.07 - Route May Be Changed.
  When a railroad company, the line of whose railroad has not been finally located in whole or in part, finds it necessary, in order...
• Section 4961.08 - Damages For Diversion.
  When, under section 4961.07 of the Revised Code, a railroad company's line of railroad is diverted from a county named in the articles of...
• Section 4961.09 - Change Of Location Or Grade.
  For the purpose of avoiding annoyance to public travel, dangerous or difficult curves or grades, or unsafe or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or when...
• Section 4961.10 - Appropriation Of Land To Make Change.
  For the purpose of making any change provided by section 4961.09 of the Revised Code, the railroad company shall have all rights, powers, and...
• Section 4961.11 - Damages By Change After Completion.
  When the location is changed, as provided by section 4961.09 of the Revised Code, after the railroad has been used for transportation of persons...
• Section 4961.12 - Construction Of Branch Road.
  A railroad company may construct branches from the main line of railroad to municipal corporations or places within the limits of a county through...
• Section 4961.13 - Right Of Entry.
  A railroad company, domestic or foreign, or municipal corporation which owns or operates a railroad may enter upon any land for the purpose of...
• Section 4961.14 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1966
• Section 4961.15 - Company May Acquire Lands.
  A railroad company may acquire by purchase or gift lands in the vicinity of the line of its railroad, or through which it passes,...
• Section 4961.151 - Validity Of Deeds.
  When any deed executed prior to October 2, 1953 or recorded after such date purporting to transfer title to real estate has been executed...
• Section 4961.16 - Appropriation Of Easement.
  If, in the judgment of the board of directors of any domestic or foreign corporation owning or operating a railroad wholly or partly within...
• Section 4961.17 - Submission Of Plans To Legislative Authority.
  Before an appropriation under section 4961.16 of the Revised Code may be made, there shall be submitted to the legislative authority of the municipal...
• Section 4961.18 - Authorization Of Extension Of Line.
  When a railroad company desires to extend the line of its railroad beyond either of its previously designated termini, its president and board of...
• Section 4961.19 - Diversion Of Road Or Stream.
  When it is necessary in the construction, reconstruction, alteration, or improvement of its railroad, or in making additions to or relocating such railroad, to...
• Section 4961.20 - Construction Of Bridges - Use As Toll Bridges.
  A railroad company may construct its bridges so as to answer the ordinary purposes of travel and business, as well as for railroad purposes,...
• Section 4961.21 To 4961.24 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1989
• Section 4961.25 - Companies Must Use Same Bridge.
  When it becomes necessary for two or more railroads to cross any of the navigable waters of this state at or near the same...
• Section 4961.26 - Petition - Contents.
  The petition to be filed in appropriation proceedings under section 4961.25 of the Revised Code, shall set forth the regulations according to which the...
• Section 4961.27 - Directors May Receive Subscriptions In Installments.
  The board of directors of a railroad company which has expended in the construction of its railroad ten per cent of its authorized capital,...
• Section 4961.28 - Conditional Subscriptions.
  A railroad company which has begun and partly built its railroad, but is unable to finish and operate it for want of means, may...
• Section 4961.29 - Subscription To Aid Another Company.
  A railroad company may aid another in the construction of its railroad by means of subscription to its capital stock, or otherwise, for the...
• Section 4961.30 - Lease Or Purchase Of Another Railroad.
  A railroad company may lease or purchase any part or all of a railroad constructed, or in the course of construction, by another company,...
• Section 4961.31 - Noncompetitive Companies May Make Beneficial Arrangements.
  Two or more railroad companies whose railroads are connected and not competing may enter into any arrangement for their common benefit consistent with and...
• Section 4961.32 - Procedure For Aid, Lease, And Purchase.
  No aid shall be furnished, nor any purchase or lease perfected, as provided by sections 4961.29 to 4961.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code until...
• Section 4961.33 - Dissenting Stockholder May Sell Stock.
  A stockholder of any railroad company, part or all of whose railroad is proposed to be leased or purchased or which it is proposed...
• Section 4961.34 - Court May Appoint Arbitrators.
  If a stockholder refuses to submit the question of the value of the stock to arbitration, as provided by section 4961.33 of the Revised...
• Section 4961.35 - Notice Of Application.
  In all cases of arbitration under sections 4961.33 and 4961.34 of the Revised Code, the party desiring such arbitration shall give the opposite party...
• Section 4961.36 - Lease Of Railroad - Security Required.
  No railroad company shall lease its road or any part thereof to another company, whether of this or any other state, unless the lessor...
• Section 4961.37 - Lessor And Lessee Jointly Liable.
  Notwithstanding the lease as provided in section 4961.36 of the Revised Code, the corporation of this state lessor therein, shall remain liable as if...
• Section 4961.38 - Dissolution Of Certain Companies.
  A railroad company which has been in existence three years, and has not begun to build the railroad described in its articles of incorporation,...
• Section 4961.39 - Lease Of Right Of Way To Be Recorded.
  When the grant of a right of way or easement is not in the form of a lawfully executed deed or lease, the county...
• Section 4961.40 - Owner Of Land Leased For Right Of Way Not To Be Taxed.
  Each railroad company owning and occupying a right of way or easement in lands, either by agreement with the owners or by virtue of...
• Section 4961.41 - Taxation Of Land Used As Right Of Way.
  Any company using or occupying any land as a right of way, without paper title or contract of record therefor, shall present a correct...

Last modified: October 10, 2016