Arkansas Code Title 23, Subtitle 1, Chapter 12, Subchapter 6 - Train Service Generally

• § 23-12-601 - Trains to Run on Regular Schedule -- Accommodations for Passengers -- Damages for Noncompliance.
  (a) Every railroad corporation shall start and run their cars for the transportation of passengers and property at regular times, to be fixed by...
• § 23-12-602 - Transfer of Passengers, Freight, and Mail At Crossings, Intersections, Etc. -- Damages.
  (a) Every railroad company operating a railroad in this state shall cause all freight and passenger trains running on its roads to stop at...
• § 23-12-603 - Department May Require Passenger Trains to Stop At All Stations -- Exception.
  The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department is empowered to require every company or person operating a railroad in Arkansas which runs and operates...
• § 23-12-604 - Duty to Erect Depot and Stop Passenger Trains in Cities and Towns Near State Line -- Exception -- Penalty.
  (a) Any railroad company owning or operating a line of railway in this state, passing through any city or incorporated town within one-half (1/2)...
• § 23-12-605 - Union Passengers or Freight Depots.
  (a) The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department shall have power to require the building and maintaining of union passenger or freight depots, by...
• § 23-12-606 - Stopping Train Within Town Limits Upon Petition -- Facilities to Be Maintained -- Enforcement -- Damages -- Penalty.
  (a) (1) When not fewer than fifty (50) citizens of any incorporated town in this state, situated on the line of any railroad run...
• § 23-12-607 - Petitions for Establishment, Discontinuance, Modification, Etc., of Service -- Authority of Department.
  The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department is authorized, empowered, and required to hear and consider all petitions filed with it for establishment, discontinuance,...
• § 23-12-608 - Establishment, Discontinuance, Modification, Etc., of Service Generally -- Investigation of Objects Sought to Be Accomplished -- Findings.
  (a) Within thirty (30) days after the filing of a petition, the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department shall proceed to make a personal...
• § 23-12-609 - Establishment, Discontinuance, Modification, Etc., of Service Generally -- Failure to Comply With Findings and Mandate -- Penalty.
  Any railroad, railroad company, lessee, or operator of the railroad company, which fails or refuses to comply with the findings, decrees, and mandates of...
• § 23-12-610 - Petitions to Establish, Reestablish, or Enlarge Service.
  A petition for establishment, reestablishment, or enlargement of railroad train service, spurs, sidetracks, and platforms shall be signed by at least twenty-five (25) qualified...
• § 23-12-611 - Discontinuance, Dualization, or Modification of Agency Station -- Petitions to Reestablish.
  (a) Any railroad operating in this state may file with the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department a notice of discontinuance, dualization, or modification...
• § 23-12-612 - Abandonment of Operations Without Authority -- Stockholders to Offer Stock for Sale -- Penalty -- Enforcement.
  (a) When any railroad corporation organized under the laws of Arkansas and operating properties within the State of Arkansas abandons such operations for a...
• § 23-12-613 - Receiver Appointed Upon Attempt to Abandon.
  (a) If any railroad corporation, manager, or receiver shall attempt to abandon any railroad, or part thereof, by failing to operate its trains, or...
• § 23-12-614 - Posting Information Regarding National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline.
  A passenger train station governed by this subchapter shall post information about the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline as required under § 12-19-102.

Last modified: November 15, 2016