Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4907 - Public Utilities Commission - Railroad Powers

• Section 4907.01 - Definitions.
  As used in sections 4907.01 to 4907.63 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public utility" has the same meaning as in section 4905.02 of the...
• Section 4907.02 - Railroad Defined.
  As used in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., and 4959. of the Revised Code, "railroad" includes any corporation, company, individual, or association of...
• Section 4907.03 - Regulation Of Service.
  Regulation of service applicable to railroads shall include: (A) The transportation of passengers and property between points within this state; (B) The receiving, switching,...
• Section 4907.04 - Exception.
  Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code do not apply to street and electric railways engaged solely in the transportation...
• Section 4907.05 - Power To Confer With Commissioners Of Other States.
  The public utilities commission may confer on any matters relating to railroads by correspondence, by attending conventions, or otherwise, with the railroad commissioners of...
• Section 4907.06 - Commission May Inquire Into Management Of Railroads.
  The public utilities commission may inquire into the management of the business of any railroad, and shall keep itself informed as to the manner...
• Section 4907.07 - Investigation Into Violations Of The Interstate Commerce Law.
  The public utilities commission may, and on complaint shall, investigate any freight rates on interstate traffic on railroads in this state. If in its...
• Section 4907.08 - Commission To Inquire Into Neglect Or Violations Of Laws.
  The public utilities commission shall inquire into any neglect or violation of the laws of this state by a railroad doing business in this...
• Section 4907.09 - Power Of Commission To Regulate In Cases Not Designated.
  If, after hearing and investigation as provided by Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code, the public...
• Section 4907.10 - Commission May Make Examinations.
  Upon demand, the public utilities commission, a public utilities commissioner, or any person employed by the commission for that purpose, may inspect the books...
• Section 4907.11 - Commission May Require Production Of Books And Papers.
  By order or subpoena served on a railroad as a summons is served in a civil action in the court of common pleas, the...
• Section 4907.12 - Forfeiture For Refusal To Comply With Subpoena.
  A railroad failing or refusing to comply within a reasonable time with an order or subpoena from the public utilities commission issued under section...
• Section 4907.13 - Annual Statement Under Oath To Commission.
  Every railroad company, incorporated or doing business in this state, shall file with the public utilities commission a full and true statement of the...
• Section 4907.14 - List Of Officers And Directors.
  Within thirty days after the election of the directors of a railroad doing business in this state, the secretary of the railroad shall forward...
• Section 4907.15 - Map And Profile Of New Railroad.
  Within a reasonable time after the construction of a railroad, or at any time when required by the public utilities commission, such railroad shall...
• Section 4907.16 - Commission Shall Be Furnished Copies Of Certain Leases, Contracts, And Agreements.
  On demand of the public utilities commission, each railroad within this state shall furnish copies of all leases, contracts, and agreements with express, sleeping...
• Section 4907.17 - Report Of Free Transportation.
  On the first Monday in February in each year, and oftener if required by the public utilities commission, each railroad shall file with the...
• Section 4907.18 - Commission May Demand Copies Of Transportation Contracts.
  When required by the public utilities commission and within a time fixed by it, each railroad shall deliver to the commission for its use...
• Section 4907.19 - Commission Shall Prepare Blank Forms For Railroad.
  The public utilities commission shall cause blank forms to be prepared suitable for the purposes designated in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909....
• Section 4907.20 - Forms - Completion And Verification.
  A railroad receiving blank forms from the public utilities commission shall cause them to be properly filled, answering fully and correctly each question therein....
• Section 4907.21 - Refusal To Fill Blank Forms.
  No officer, agent, or employee of a railroad company shall willfully fail to fill out and return a blank form required by the public...
• Section 4907.22 - Prohibition Against Directing Violation.
  No railroad shall, by itself or by a general officer thereof, by direction, instruction, or request, cause an officer, agent, or employee of such...
• Section 4907.23 - Duty Of Railroad To Report Certain Accidents.
  Whenever an accident attended with loss of human life occurs within this state upon the line of any railroad, or on the depot grounds...
• Section 4907.24 - Adequate Service And Facilities.
  Each railroad shall furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities. The charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of...
• Section 4907.25 - Railroad Shall File Schedules.
  Each railroad shall print in plain type and file with the public utilities commission, within a time fixed by the commission, schedules, showing all...
• Section 4907.26 - Schedules Of Joint Rates.
  When passengers or property are transported over connecting railroads in this state operated by two or more railroads which establish joint rates, fares, and...
• Section 4907.27 - Changes In Schedules.
  After schedules are filed as provided in sections 4907.25 and 4907.26 of the Revised Code, no change shall be made in any schedule, including...
• Section 4907.28 - Charges Shall Conform To Schedule.
  No railroad shall charge, demand, collect, or receive a greater or less compensation for the transportation of passengers or property, or for any service...
• Section 4907.29 - Commission Shall Prescribe Forms.
  The public utilities commission may prescribe such changes in the form in which schedules are issued by a railroad as are expedient. Such schedules,...
• Section 4907.30 - Free Transportation Prohibited - Exceptions.
  No railroad company owning or operating a railroad wholly or partly within this state shall, directly or indirectly, issue or give a free ticket,...
• Section 4907.31 - Passes May Be Interchanged.
  Section 4907.30 of the Revised Code does not prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers, agents, and employees and their families. Such section...
• Section 4907.32 - Prohibition.
  No railroad company shall violate sections 4907.30, 4907.31, and 4907.34 of the Revised Code. No person, other than the persons excepted in such sections,...
• Section 4907.33 - Uniform Classification Of Freight.
  The classification of freight in this state shall be uniform on all railroads. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 4907.34 - Exceptions As To Freight Rates.
  Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code do not prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of freight...
• Section 4907.35 - Unjust Discrimination - Forfeiture.
  If a railroad, or an agent or officer of a railroad, by special rate, rebate, drawback, or by means of false billing, false classification,...
• Section 4907.36 - Illegal Concessions.
  No railroad shall demand, charge, collect, or receive from a person, firm, or corporation a less compensation for the transportation of property or for...
• Section 4907.37 - Unlawful Preference.
  No common carrier subject to Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code shall make or give undue or unreasonable preference...
• Section 4907.38 - Rebate Or Concessions Prohibited.
  No person, firm, or corporation, shall knowingly accept or receive a rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect to transportation of property wholly within this...
• Section 4907.39 - Depots, Switches, And Sidetracks.
  Each railroad shall provide and maintain adequate depots and depot buildings at its regular stations for the accommodation of passengers. Such depot buildings shall...
• Section 4907.40 - Control Over Private Tracks.
  The public utilities commission has the same control over private tracks, so far as such tracks are used by common carriers in connection with...
• Section 4907.41 - Supply Of Cars.
  Upon reasonable notice, each railroad shall furnish suitable cars for all persons who may apply therefor, for the transportation of any and all kinds...
• Section 4907.42 - Interchange Of Traffic.
  Railroad companies as between themselves, and interurban railroads and electric railways as between themselves, shall afford reasonable and proper facilities for interchange of traffic...
• Section 4907.43 - Railroad Track Connection.
  When the tracks of a railroad and the tracks of an interurban or suburban railway cross, connect, or intersect, and such tracks are of...
• Section 4907.44 - Duty Of Commission As To Dangerous Structures.
  A railroad subject to regulation by the public utilities commission shall, in accordance with American railway engineers association codes of rules for inspection or...
• Section 4907.45 - Repair Of Defective Track.
  No superintendent or other executive officer of a company operating a railroad who receives from the public utilities commission notice of a prescribed rate...
• Section 4907.46 - Forfeiture In Case Of Noncompliance.
  If the company operating a railroad neglects or without good cause fails to make the repairs or reconstruction prescribed by the public utilities commission...
• Section 4907.47 - Installing Crossing Signals.
  (A) If, after public hearing as to the necessity for installing protective devices at a public railroad highway grade crossing, written notice of which...
• Section 4907.471 - Surveys Determining Probability Of Accident At Crossing.
  (A) The public utilities commission shall survey all public crossings of railroads at grade, whether on state, county, or township highways or on streets...
• Section 4907.472 - Grade Crossing Protection Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the grade crossing protection fund for the purpose of paying: (1) The public share of...
• Section 4907.473 - Removing Or Defacing Protective Device Prohibited.
  No person shall unlawfully remove, displace, injure, or deface any sign, signal, gate, or other protective device required to be installed under Chapter 5523....
• Section 4907.474 - Closing Crossings To Vehicular Traffic.
  (A) In making the survey provided for by section 4907.471 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall determine as to each crossing...
• Section 4907.475 - Closing Rural Crossings.
  (A) If the public utilities commission finds that there is not a demonstrable need for the crossing to exist according to the factors listed...
• Section 4907.476 - Use Of Federal Funds.
  In its administration of sections 4907.47 to 4907.475 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall, to the extent that it uses federal...
• Section 4907.48 - Regulation Of Crossing Signals.
  All gates, bells, or devices erected under the direction of the public utilities commission shall be built within the time, in the manner, and...
• Section 4907.49 - Dangerous Crossings.
  When two or more railroads cross a public highway or street at a dangerous crossing, the expenses incurred in the erection and maintenance of...
• Section 4907.50 - Engines Or Trains May Pass Crossings Without Stopping.
  When two or more railroads, or a railroad and an electric railway, erect a system of interlocking works or fixtures at the place where...
• Section 4907.51 - Unsafe Interlocking Works Or Fixtures.
  If in the opinion of the public utilities commission any system of interlocking works or fixtures referred to in section 4907.50 of the Revised...
• Section 4907.52 - Safety Devices At Grade Crossings.
  When two railroads, a railroad and an interurban railroad or electric or street railway, two interurban railroads, or a railroad or electric railway and...
• Section 4907.53 - Hearing As To Necessity Of Safety Device.
  At the time and place named for hearing, unless continued for good cause, the public utilities commission shall try the question of whether a...
• Section 4907.54 - Compulsory Interlocking.
  If the tracks of a railroad or electric railway cross at grade the tracks of a railroad or electric railway previously constructed, the former...
• Section 4907.55 - Crossing Without Stopping.
  When interlocking works or other fixtures are constructed and maintained in compliance with law by railroads and electric railways where railroads referred to in...
• Section 4907.56 - Forfeiture For Noncompliance With Order.
  A railroad or electric railway refusing or neglecting to comply with an order of the public utilities commission concerning the protection of persons and...
• Section 4907.57 - Damage Claims.
  All claims, charges, or demands against a railroad for loss of or damage to property occurring while in the custody of such railroad and...
• Section 4907.58 - Immediate Trial.
  Within thirty days from the receipt of the findings referred to in section 4907.57 of the Revised Code, by the clerk of the court...
• Section 4907.59 - Counsel For Commission.
  Upon request of the public utilities commission, the attorney general or the prosecuting attorney of the proper county shall aid in an investigation, prosecution,...
• Section 4907.60 - Forfeiture For Violation.
  If a railroad fails to perform a duty enjoined upon it by Chapter 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., or 4959. of the Revised Code,...
• Section 4907.61 - Venue Of Forfeiture Action By Attorney General.
  Except as otherwise specifically provided in sections 4905.96 and 4923.99 of the Revised Code, when the attorney general prosecutes an action for the recovery...
• Section 4907.62 - Punitive Damages.
  If a railroad does, causes, or permits anything prohibited by Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code to be done,...
• Section 4907.63 - Violation.
  No officer, agent, or employee in an official capacity of a public utility or railroad shall knowingly violate section 4907.43 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 4907.64 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-22-1994
• Section 4907.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 4907.21 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. (B)...

Last modified: October 10, 2016