Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4951 - Street Railways And Interurban Railroads

• Section 4951.01 - Authority To Construct Street Railways.
  Street railways, with single or double tracks, sidetracks, and turnouts, may be constructed or extended within or without, or partly within and partly without,...
• Section 4951.02 - Grant Of Right To Construct.
  The right to construct or extend a street railway within or beyond the limits of a municipal corporation may be granted only by its...
• Section 4951.03 - Grantee Not To Be Released From Obligation.
  After a grant to construct or extend a street railway, or the renewal of any such grant, has been made by general or special...
• Section 4951.04 - Right To Occupy Tracks Of Existing Companies.
  No right shall be given by municipal or county authorities to occupy the track, single or double, or other structure, of existing street railways...
• Section 4951.05 - Extension To Be Constructed As New Route.
  No extension of a street railway located wholly outside a city, or of one wherever located, which is built in pursuance of a right...
• Section 4951.06 - Written Consent Of Property Owners Required.
  No grant referred to in section 4951.02 of the Revised Code shall be made until there is produced to the legislative authority of a...
• Section 4951.07 - Written Consent Not Required.
  When a grant is made by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, either for a new route or as an extension of an...
• Section 4951.08 - Appropriating Property.
  When the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or board of county commissioners makes a grant as provided in section 4951.02 of the Revised...
• Section 4951.09, 4951.10 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1966
• Section 4951.11 - Appropriation Of Property By Directors.
  When it is deemed necessary by a majority of the directors of a domestic or foreign corporation owning or operating a street railway in...
• Section 4951.12 - Use Of Public Highways.
  Companies incorporated under section 1701.04 of the Revised Code, for the purpose of owning or operating street railway companies, may construct, maintain, and operate...
• Section 4951.13 - Consent Of Authority Controlling Public Highway.
  If the public highway along which a street railway is to be constructed is owned by a person or company, or is within the...
• Section 4951.14 - Crossings.
  Whenever it is deemed necessary by a majority of the board of directors of a street railway company to cross the streets, avenues, alleys,...
• Section 4951.15 - Appropriation Of Private Property.
  Street railways and interurban or suburban railroads using other than steam as motive power, when necessary, may enter upon and use private property in...
• Section 4951.16 - Appropriation Of Property For Depots.
  Where the tracks of any street railway extend into or through any municipal corporation and the street railway company deems it necessary to enter...
• Section 4951.17 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1966
• Section 4951.18 - Leases, Purchases, And Traffic Arrangements.
  Street railway and suburban and interurban railroad companies may lease, purchase, or make traffic arrangements with any other street railway company as to so...
• Section 4951.19 - Consolidation.
  Street railway companies referred to by section 4951.18 of the Revised Code may consolidate on the terms applicable to the consolidation of railroad companies....
• Section 4951.20 - Consolidation Of Street Railway Companies.
  When the lines or authorized lines of railway of street railway companies meet or intersect, or conveniently can be operated from one power house,...
• Section 4951.21 - Exceptions.
  Section 4951.20 of the Revised Code as to competing lines does not apply to companies whose lines are nearby or wholly situated in a...
• Section 4951.22 - Consolidation Of Electric Railway Companies.
  When the railways of any street railway company, organized under the laws of this state, are constructed or in process of construction, and are...
• Section 4951.23 - Interurban Railroad May Contract For Use Of Tracks In Cities.
  When an interurban railroad company is incorporated and organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of building, acquiring, owning, leasing, operating,...
• Section 4951.24 - Privileges And Obligations Of Street Railways Apply To Interurban Railroads.
  While they are running and being operated over and along the tracks of a street railway company in a municipal corporation, the cars of...
• Section 4951.25 - Additional Grant Unnecessary.
  It is not necessary for an interurban railroad company, in case it uses in a municipal corporation only the tracks of a street railway...
• Section 4951.26 - Fare Charged Within City.
  The fare charged by an interurban railroad company which has contracted for the use of tracks as provided by section 4951.23 of the Revised...
• Section 4951.27 - Lease Or Purchase Of Electric Or Gas Light, Heat, Power, Or Fuel Company.
  A company maintaining and operating a street railway or a railroad operated by electricity may lease or purchase all the property, franchises, rights, and...
• Section 4951.28 - Liabilities Of The Company Leased Or Purchased.
  A company leasing or purchasing the property, rights, and franchises of an electric light and power company, natural or artificial gas company, or electric...
• Section 4951.29 - Railway Company May Acquire Property Of Other Companies.
  A company organized for street railway purposes may lease or purchase any street railway, or railroad operated as such and by electric power, or...
• Section 4951.30 - Agreements With Other Companies.
  Two or more street railway or electric railway companies may enter into any agreement for their common benefit consistent with and calculated to promote...
• Section 4951.31 - Fare Cannot Be Increased.
  When a lease or purchase is made as provided in sections 4951.29 and 4951.30 of the Revised Code, there shall be no increase of...
• Section 4951.32 - Construction Of Inclined-plane Railways.
  An inclined-plane railway company may construct, operate, and maintain an inclined-plane railway for the conveyance of passengers and freight, or either, with such offices,...
• Section 4951.33 - Construction Of Street Crossings.
  When the part of the railway of an inclined-plane railway company which is operated by steam power crosses a public street or highway, it...
• Section 4951.34 - Construction Of Elevated And Underground Railroads And Railways.
  A city owning or having charge of any public road, street, alley, way, or ground of any kind, or any part thereof, may grant...
• Section 4951.35 - Elevated And Subway Structures Must Not Obstruct Travel Or Impair Streets.
  Elevated structures and crossings referred to in section 4951.34 of the Revised Code shall be of such height and construction as not to prevent...
• Section 4951.36 - Changes And Removals.
  The legislative authority of a city may grant to the company operating an elevated or underground railroad the right to move, change, elevate, depress,...
• Section 4951.37 - Grant Of Rights And Privileges Valid.
  Any ordinance of any city purporting to grant any rights or privileges contained in sections 4951.35 to 4951.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to...
• Section 4951.38 - Right To Lease Space In Tunnel Or Subway.
  The legislative authority of a city may authorize the company operating an elevated or underground railroad to lease space in its tunnel or subway...
• Section 4951.39 - Conditions Of Grant.
  A grant to construct an elevated or an underground railroad shall only be made upon such conditions as are agreed upon by the legislative...
• Section 4951.40 - Appropriation Of Property For Elevated Or Underground Railroad.
  After a grant referred to in section 4951.34 of the Revised Code has been made the company operating the elevated or underground railroad may...
• Section 4951.41 - Damages To Other Property.
  Any company which constructs an elevated track upon or a tunnel or an underground railroad below the roads, streets, alleys, ways, or grounds of...
• Section 4951.42 - Purchase Of Railroad By City.
  Each city making a grant as provided in sections 4951.34, 4951.35, and 4951.39 to 4951.41, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may provide in such...
• Section 4951.43 - Acceptance Or Rejection Of Grant.
  Every railroad, street railway, suburban railroad, or interurban railroad company to whom a grant has been made as provided in sections 4951.34, 4951.35, and...
• Section 4951.44 - Submission Of Grant To Electors.
  The officials in charge of the general election shall arrange, provide for, and conduct the submission of the question of a grant as provided...
• Section 4951.45 - Electric Railways Or Interurban Railroads Operating Cars Along Third Rail Required To Maintain Fences.
  Any company or person having the control or management of an electric or street railway or interurban railroad which operates its cars by electricity...
• Section 4951.46 - Abutting Owner May Construct And Maintain Fence.
  If any company or person neglects or refuses to construct and maintain a fence as provided in section 4951.45 of the Revised Code, the...
• Section 4951.47 - Injury To Domestic Animal Prima-facie Evidence.
  If any domestic animal receives any injury or is killed upon the right of way of an electric or street railway or interurban railroad,...
• Section 4951.48 - Watchmen.
  When street railways are operated by electricity, cable, compressed air, or other motive power in a municipal corporation, the legislative authority of such municipal...
• Section 4951.49 - Repairs At Crossings - Stopping Of Cars At Crossings.
  When the tracks of two street railways cross each other or in any way connect at a common grade, the crossings shall be made...
• Section 4951.50 - Full Stop When Approaching Railroad Crossing.
  When the tracks of a street railway cross the tracks of a railroad at grade, the company operating the line of streetcars shall cause...
• Section 4951.51 - Failure To Stop - Forfeiture.
  Every person in charge of a streetcar who willfully fails to comply with sections 4951.49 and 4951.50 of the Revised Code or to bring...
• Section 4951.52 - Air Brakes Required On Suburban And Interurban Cars.
  No company or person owning or controlling any suburban or interurban railroad or street railway shall operate, use, or run, or permit to be...
• Section 4951.53 - Center Aisle Required In Street Railway Or Interurban Cars.
  No street railway or interurban railroad company in this state, or its president, general manager, general superintendent, or other officer in charge of operation,...
• Section 4951.54 - Free Transportation Of Police And Firemen.
  Upon the granting of franchises to traction companies or motor or bus transportation companies throughout this state for the use of streets, roads, and...
• Section 4951.55 - Operation Of Cars Without Water Closet And Drinking Water.
  Every person or company engaged in the operation of interurban cars for a greater distance than ten miles between the corporate limits of municipal...
• Section 4951.56 - Screen For Protection Of Motormen And Conductors - Temperatures.
  No officer, agent, or employee in authority of a corporation, individual, or association shall direct or permit to be operated an electric car other...
• Section 4951.57 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1996
• Section 4951.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 4951.53 of the Revised Code shall be fined fifty dollars and imprisoned for not less than ten nor more than...

Last modified: October 10, 2016