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Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes - Chapter 15 ViaductsLegal Research Home > Texas Lawyer > Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes > Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes - Chapter 15 Viaducts All cities acting under special charters granted by the legislature are hereby granted all necessary rights and powers to carry out and comply with existing ... All such cities are hereby given authority to abolish and close such portions of any highway, street or alley crossed by railroad tracks, as such ... Such cities are hereby given full power and authority to issue improvement bonds to be designated "viaduct bonds" to an amount not exceeding ten thousand ... All such cities are hereby given the right of eminent domain and the power and authority to condemn all land necessary for right of way ... All such cities are hereby given the right and power to compel the construction and completion of such viaducts as railway companies have by contract ... All bridges, viaducts, overheadways, foot bridges, wires or other structures hereafter built over the tracks of a railway, or over the tracks of railroads, by ... All loading platforms and all houses and structures, and all fences, and all lumber, wood and other materials hereafter built, placed or stored along the ... All roof projections hereafter constructed from any loading platform along any railroad main track, or spur, switch, or siding track shall be not less than ... The provisions of this Act shall not apply to nor prevent the building, placing, constructing or completing of structures or other things enumerated in Sections ... If any railway company or other corporation, firm, partnership, or person shall hereafter erect any structure or wire in violation of any provision of this ... It is hereby made the duty of the Railroad Commission to promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with this Act. It is further provided that ... Railroad corporation, or other corporation, as used in this article shall mean any corporation, company, person or association of persons, who own or control, manage ... The preceding article shall not apply to one who has not by virtue of his office, agency, or position, a voice in the management of ... Any officer, agent or representative of any corporation or receiver operating any line of railroad in whole or in part within this State who shall ... The preceding article shall not apply to two or more incorporated or unincorporated towns or cities which now are situated within five miles of each ... All railroad corporations operating in, and having their repair shops within this State, are required to repair, renovate or rebuild in this State all defective ... The preceding article does not apply to companies having less than sixty continuous miles of railroad in operation in this State, nor in case of ... The air brakes and air brake attachments on each train in this State must be inspected by a competent inspector before such train leaves its ... The preceding article shall not apply to tram roads engaged in hauling logs to a sawmill, nor to railroads under forty miles in length. Acts ... No person, firm, corporation or receiver operating any railroad, machine shop or other concern engaged in repairing or manufacturing cars within this State, shall use ... The train dispatcher shall keep all agents at stations having telegraph offices in or near them informed of the movement of each passenger train one ... Every railroad agent at stations having telegraphic communication with the train dispatcher of the railroad, shall ascertain one hour before the schedule time of the ... Whenever any animal is killed or found dead upon the roadbed or right of way of any railroad company in this State, the section foreman ... (a) The engineer in charge of a locomotive engine when approaching a place where two lines of railway cross shall, before reaching the railway crossing ... Any officer, agent or employé of any railroad company who shall, upon proper demand, fail or refuse to exhibit to any member of the Railroad ... If any officer or employé of a railroad company shall fail or refuse to fill out and return any blanks to said Railroad Commission as ... Any officer or agent of any railroad subject to the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission, who by means of false billing, false classification, false weight, ... If any officer, agent, clerk, servant or employé, or any receiver, or his servant, agent or employé, of any railroad company in this State shall, ... Nothing herein shall prevent the carriage, storing or handling, by railroad companies in this State, or by their agents, officers, clerks, servants and employés, of ... Any court, officer or tribunal having jurisdiction of any offense mentioned in article 1687, or any district or county attorney may subpoena persons and compel ... Each railroad director, president, secretary or other official who shall knowingly make any false statement upon which to secure the registration of any bond or ... Last modified: August 10, 2007 |