California Public Utilities Code CHAPTER 6 - Railroad Crossings

• Section 1201.
  No public road, highway, or street shall be constructed across the track of any railroad corporation at grade, nor shall the track of any railroad...
• Section 1201.1.
  The commission, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, shall adopt rules and regulations prescribing uniform standards regarding the time after the warning signal begins...
• Section 1202.
  The commission has the exclusive power:(a) To determine and prescribe the manner, including the particular point of crossing, and the terms of installation, operation, maintenance, use,...
• Section 1202.1.
  In any proceeding under Section 1202, where the application to the commission states that the parties are not in agreement as to apportionment of costs,...
• Section 1202.2.
  In apportioning the cost of maintenance of automatic grade-crossing protection constructed or altered after October 1, 1965 under Section 1202, as between the railroad or...
• Section 1202.3.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any proceeding under Section 1202, in the case of a crossing involving a publicly used road or...
• Section 1202.5.
  In prescribing the proportions in which the expense of construction, reconstruction, alteration, or relocation of grade separations shall be divided between railroad or street railroad...
• Section 1202.6.
  Any municipal corporation, transit district, rapid transit district, or other public entity which provides rail passenger transportation services through a contract with a railroad corporation,...
• Section 1202.7.
  Whenever existing automatic grade-crossing safety signal equipment that was installed within the previous 10 years is planned for removal due to upgrade or closure projects...
• Section 1203.
  Each corporation and political subdivision to which any of the expense is apportioned shall pay from the funds available therefor in its treasury the amount...
• Section 1204.
  If the legislative body of the political subdivision determines that special benefits will accrue from the separation of grades to one or more districts within...
• Section 1205.
  If any order of the commission provides for the payment of a portion of the cost of any such grade separation by a political subdivision...
• Section 1206.
  The commission may fix the just compensation to be paid for property or any interest in or to property to be taken or damaged in...
• Section 1207.
  Proceedings under Section 1206 may be commenced by order on the commission’s own motion or by a petition filed by the State, county, city and...
• Section 1208.
  Upon the filing of the petition or the making of the order on the commission’s own motion, the commission shall make its order to show...
• Section 1209.
  Personal service shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure or by depositing a copy of the order to...
• Section 1210.
  If any owner or claimant named in the petition or order on the commission’s own motion resides out of the State or has departed from...
• Section 1211.
  Within 10 days prior to the time set for the first hearing on the petition or order on the commission’s own motion, which time shall...
• Section 1212.
  The commission at any time subsequent to the filing of the petition, and prior to making and filing its finding of just compensation, may authorize...
• Section 1213.
  At the time and place specified in the order to show cause, or at such other time and place as, for good cause, is otherwise...
• Section 1214.
  The commission shall also make its order designating the party or parties to the proceeding who shall pay the just compensation so fixed, or any...
• Section 1215.
  When the just compensation has been paid in accordance with the commission’s order, the commission shall make its final order of condemnation which shall describe...
• Section 1216.
  (a) The finding of the commission on the question of the necessity for the taking and the finding fixing the just compensation to be paid for...
• Section 1217.
  The procedure provided in this chapter shall be alternative and cumulative and not exclusive to the right to pursue any other procedure providing for the...
• Section 1218.
  Nothing in this chapter shall entitle any owner or claimant of property and interest in or to property to receive damages when the right to...
• Section 1219.
  The Legislature declares that Sections 1201 to 1205, inclusive, are enacted as germane and cognate parts of and as aids to the jurisdiction vested in...
• Section 1220.
  The Legislature declares that Sections 1206 to 1218, inclusive, are enacted as a germane and cognate part of and as an aid to the jurisdiction...

Last modified: October 22, 2018