Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4973 - Employees; Policemen

• Section 4973.01 - Relief Association Prohibited.
  No company created under and by virtue of the laws of this state or of any other state or country, having and operating a...
• Section 4973.02 - Unlawful For Railroad To Limit Liability As Employer.
  No railroad company owning and operating, or operating, a railroad shall adopt or promulgate a rule or regulation for the government of its servants...
• Section 4973.03 - Unlawful For Company To Compel Employee To Join Any Company Or Association.
  No railroad company shall, directly or indirectly, compel or require an employee to join any company or association, withhold any part of an employee's...
• Section 4973.04 - Companies Prohibited From Demanding Or Receiving Waivers.
  No railroad company, insurance society or association, or other person shall demand, accept, or enter into an agreement or stipulation with a person in...
• Section 4973.05 - Agreements Void.
  All rules, regulations, stipulations, and agreements, declared unlawful by sections 4973.02 to 4973.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are void. A corporation, association, or...
• Section 4973.06 - Defective Machinery Prima-facie Evidence Of Negligence.
  No railroad company knowingly or negligently shall use or operate a car or locomotive that is defective, or upon which the machinery or attachments...
• Section 4973.07 - Employee Definitions.
  In actions against a railroad company for personal injury to a person while in its employ, or for death resulting from such injury, arising...
• Section 4973.08 - Presumptive Evidence.
  Every railroad company operating a railroad in whole or part within this state is liable for all damages sustained by any of its employees...
• Section 4973.09 - Slight Contributory Negligence No Bar To Recovery.
  In all actions against a railroad company, operating a railroad in whole or part within this state, for personal injury to an employee or...
• Section 4973.10 - Engineers Addicted To Drink Not To Be Employed.
  No person or company operating a railroad in whole or in part in this state, directly or by or through a representative, shall knowingly...
• Section 4973.11 - Hours Of Service Of Certain Railroad Employees.
  No company operating a railroad over thirty miles in length or an interurban railroad or street railway over four miles in length shall permit...
• Section 4973.12 - Seats For Conductor And Motorman.
  No person or company shall operate in this state any electric or street railway car or interurban railroad car unless it is provided at...
• Section 4973.13 - Sale Of Railroad Scrap Metal.
  No officer, agent, or employee of a company operating a railroad, except the superintendent, general managing agent, or receiver of the company, may sell...
• Section 4973.14 - Evidence Of Title Of Scrap.
  The person, company, or firm to whom is offered for sale, pledge, or trade, worn or used links, pins, journal bearings, or other worn,...
• Section 4973.15 - Company May Replevy Scrap.
  By its proper officer or agent, or by the receiver of such company, a railroad company may claim to be the general owner of...
• Section 4973.16 - Liability Of Company Or Receiver.
  If a railroad company or its receiver replevies property under section 4973.15 of the Revised Code without reasonable cause to believe that it was...
• Section 4973.17 - Commissions For Special Police Officers - Term Of Office - Training.
  (A) (1) Upon the application of any bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations,...
• Section 4973.171 - Felony Conviction Precludes Or Terminates Employment.
  (A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B) (1) The secretary of...
• Section 4973.18 - Oath Of Office And Commission - Powers - Liabilities.
  Before entering upon the duties of his office, each policeman appointed under section 4973.17 of the Revised Code shall take and ascribe an oath...
• Section 4973.19 - Power Of Police To Enforce Regulations And Make Arrests.
  A company which avails itself of sections 4973.17 and 4973.18 of the Revised Code may make needful regulations to promote the public convenience and...
• Section 4973.20 - When Police To Wear Badges.
  Except while acting in the discharge of duty as a detective for the railroad, every policeman appointed under section 4973.17 of the Revised Code...
• Section 4973.21 - Compensation.
  The compensation of policemen appointed or commissioned as provided in section 4973.17 of the Revised Code shall be paid by the company for which...
• Section 4973.22 - Notice Terminating Services Filed With Secretary Of State.
  When a company no longer requires the services of a policeman appointed as provided in section 4973.17 of the Revised Code, it may file...
• Section 4973.23 - Detention Upon Probable Cause By Conductor Or Ticket Agent.
  (A) A conductor of any train carrying passengers or of the cars of any interurban railroad carrying passengers, and a ticket agent employed in...
• Section 4973.24 - Conductor May Eject Passenger.
  When a passenger is guilty of disorderly conduct, uses obscene language, or plays a game of cards or chance for money or other thing...
• Section 4973.25 - Liability For Conductor's Conduct.
  In no case shall the liability of a railroad company for damages caused by the conduct of its conductor be affected by section 4973.23...
• Section 4973.26 - Negligence Of Official Duty.
  No conductor having charge of a passenger train or of the cars of any interurban railroad carrying passengers within this state shall willfully neglect...
• Section 4973.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 4973.12 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned...

Last modified: October 10, 2016