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Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes - Chapter 8 Restrictions, Duties And LiabilitiesLegal Research Home > Texas Lawyer > Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes > Texas Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes - Chapter 8 Restrictions, Duties And Liabilities No railroad hereafter constructed in this State shall pass within a distance of three miles of any county seat without passing through the same and ... Every railroad company organized under this title shall make an actual survey of its route or line for a distance of twenty-five miles on its ... Every such corporation shall, on completion of the first twenty-five miles of its roadbed, make a survey of the next twenty-five miles, and of each ... Every such corporation shall start and run their cars for the transportation of passengers and property at regular times to be fixed by public notice, ... If any railroad corporation, manager or receiver shall attempt to abandon any railroad, or part thereof, by failing to operate its trains or to resume ... This law shall be considered cumulative of all laws of this State now in force on this subject when not in conflict herewith, but when ... In case of the refusal by such corporation or their agents so to take and transport any passengers or property, or to deliver the same, ... All railroad companies operating any railroad, or any part thereof, within this State, are required to provide cars with double decks for the shipment of ... It shall be unlawful for any railroad company to charge more for shipping a double-decked carload of sheep, goats, hogs or calves than is charged ... It shall be unlawful for any railroad company in this State, its officers, agents or employés, to charge and collect or to endeavor to charge ... Any railroad company, its officers, agents or employés, having possession of any goods, wares and merchandise, of any kind or character whatsoever, shall deliver the ... If any railroad company, its officers, agents or employés shall refuse to deliver to the owner, agent or consignee, any freight, goods, wares and merchandise, ... No railroad company or receiver thereof, in this State shall confiscate, or otherwise convert to its own use, any carload shipment or substantial portion of ... In addition to all other remedies or penalties that may be provided by law therefor, the violation of any provision of the preceding article shall ... Every conductor, baggage master, engineer, brakeman or other servant of such railroad corporation employed in a passenger train, or at its stations for passengers, shall ... A check shall be affixed to every package or parcel of baggage when taken for transportation by the agent or servant of such corporation, and ... Definitions Sec. 1. In this Act: (1) "Department" means the Texas Department of Transportation. (2) "Grade crossing" and "retroreflectorized material" have the meanings assigned by ... Every railroad corporation or receiver or lessee thereof, operating any line of railroad in this State, shall equip all locomotive engines used in the transportation ... Every railway corporation operating any line of railway in this State shall place and maintain good and sufficient switch lights on all their main line ... Every railroad corporation operating any line of railway in Texas shall place and maintain good and safe derailing switches on all of their sidings connecting ... Any railway corporation which shall wilfully violate any provision of the two preceding articles shall be liable to the State of Texas for a penalty ... No firm, corporation or receiver operating any railroad, machine shop or other concern engaged in repairing or manufacturing cars within this State, shall use any ... The air brakes and air brake attachment on each train in this State must be inspected by a competent inspector before such train leaves its ... No railroad company or receiver of any railroad company doing business in this State shall run over its road, or part of its road, outside ... No common carrier engaged in moving commerce in this State by railroad shall use in moving such commerce in this State any locomotive not equipped ... No railroad engaged in intrastate commerce within this State shall use on its lines in moving intrastate traffic within said State any locomotive engine not ... No common carrier engaged in commerce as aforesaid shall haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line of railroad within this State, ... No common carrier engaged in commerce as aforesaid shall use in moving intrastate traffic within this State any locomotive, tender, car or similar vehicle, any ... When any person, firm, company, corporation or receiver engaged in commerce as aforesaid shall have equipped a sufficient number of its locomotives, tenders, cars and ... No common carrier, engaged in commerce as aforesaid, shall use in moving intrastate traffic within this State any locomotive, tender, cars, or similar vehicle which ... Every such common carrier, whether a copartnership, a corporation, a receiver or an individual or association of individuals, violating any of the provisions of the ... Any employé of any common carrier engaged in any intrastate commerce, as provided in the six preceding articles who may be injured or killed shall ... ... It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, or receiver of any railroad company, operating any line of railroad in whole or in part in ... Any railroad company, or receiver of any railroad, operating a line of railroad in whole or in part in this State, or any officer or ... Every such corporation shall, when applied to by the Postmaster General, convey the mail of the United States on its road or roads; and in ... Railroad companies shall erect at each depot, station, or place established by such company for the reception and delivery of freight, suitable buildings or inclosures ... Railroad companies shall in no case be allowed to charge storage upon freight received by them for delivery, unless the owner or consignee thereof neglect ... Every railroad company doing business in this State shall keep its depots or passenger houses in this State lighted and warmed, and opened to the ... All railroad and railway corporations operating a line of railway in this State for the transportation of passengers thereon are required to construct and maintain, ... They shall keep said water closets and depot grounds adjacent thereto well lighted at such hours in the night time as its passengers and patrons ... Any railroad or railway corporation which fails, neglects or refuses to comply with the provisions of the two preceding articles shall forfeit and pay to ... Definition Sec. 1. In this Act, "sanitary condition" means a condition of good order and cleanliness that precludes the reasonable probability of disease transmission. Duties ... When a company constructs a switch on its road for the accommodation of freighters, they shall be bound to furnish a sufficient number of cars ... Every railroad company whose railroad passes through a field or inclosure, shall place a good and sufficient cattle-guard or stop at the points of entering ... If any railroad or railway company or corporation doing business in this State shall permit any Johnson grass or Russian thistle to mature or go ... Each railroad company shall be liable to the owner for the value of all stock killed or injured by the locomotives and cars of such ... Whenever an animal is killed or found dead upon the railroad or right of way of any railroad company in this State, the section foreman ... "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 ... Every such corporation shall, within a reasonable time after their road shall be located, cause to be made: 1. A map and profile thereof, and ... Any two connecting railroads may enter into a contract whereby any part or all the passengers, freight or cars, empty or loaded, hauled or transported ... All railway companies doing business in this State shall be and they are hereby required to receive from all railway companies with which they may ... Whenever any two or more railroads doing business in this State shall connect with each other by crossing each other's tracks or otherwise so as ... Every railroad, or person, or corporation, operating a railway for the carriage of freight and passengers in this State shall receive freight, passengers and baggage ... Each railway company doing business in this State shall be required to receive from all steamships, steamboats and other water craft and vessels, at their ... If any railroad company doing business in this State shall fail or refuse to interchange business with any steamship line or company or with any ... Every railway which may interchange business with any other connecting railway under the provisions of this chapter, or otherwise, is hereby declared to be a ... If any railway company doing business in this State shall fail or refuse to interchange business with any other railway company, or shall fail or ... Every railroad company operating a railroad within this State shall furnish reasonable and equal facilities and accommodations, and upon reasonable and equal rates, to all ... Each railroad company doing business in this State, or the receiver of any such railroad company, through their duly authorized officers, shall provide each agent ... The passenger fare upon all railroads in this State shall be three cents per mile, with an allowance of baggage to each passenger not to ... If any railroad corporation organized under this title shall not within two years after its articles of association shall be filed and recorded as provided ... Sec. 1. That the time in which any railway corporation chartered under the laws of the State of Texas since the first day of January, ... Sec. 1. That the time in which any railway corporation chartered under the Laws of the State of Texas since the first day of January, ... Any railroad corporation which shall neglect to make the annual report required by this title to the Comptroller or Governor and which has been notified ... Issuance of Permit Sec. 1. (a) A railroad company shall issue to each person that it employs to operate or permits to operate a ... Stop After Accident Sec. 1. The person assigned by a railroad corporation to be responsible for the operation of the train who is involved, ... Definitions Sec. 1. In this Act: (1) "Commission" means the Railroad Commission of Texas. (2) "Emergency management program" means an emergency management program established ... Last modified: August 10, 2007 |