Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4955 - Tracks; Crossings

• Section 4955.01 - Elevated Or Surface Track.
  If, in the location of any part of a railroad owned or operated by a domestic or foreign corporation, it is necessary to occupy...
• Section 4955.02 - Appropriation Of Property For Surface Track Or Elevated Crossing.
  If the parties are unable to agree as provided in section 4955.01 of the Revised Code, and it is necessary in the judgment of...
• Section 4955.03 - Limitation As To Action For Damages.
  Every railroad company which lays a track upon or over any street, alley, road, or ground, or part thereof, as provided in section 4955.01...
• Section 4955.04 - Piers Or Other Supports In A Public Way.
  When it is declared necessary by two thirds of the members of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the mayor approving, any...
• Section 4955.05 - Submission Of Question To Electors.
  The officials in charge of general elections, in accordance with the laws relating to elections, shall arrange for and conduct the submission of the...
• Section 4955.06 - Longitudinal Occupancy Of Way Unlawful.
  Sections 4955.01 to 4955.06, inclusive, 4961.16, and 4961.17 of the Revised Code do not authorize a grant of the right to occupy any public...
• Section 4955.07 - Track Of Uniform Gauge.
  Every company shall make every railroad constructed or controlled by it of one uniform gauge or width of track from end to end. When...
• Section 4955.08 - Tracks May Be Used In Common.
  When two or more railroad companies have two or more tracks of the same gauge in the same street, alley, public way, or opening...
• Section 4955.09 - Obstructing The Laying Of A Track.
  No person or corporation shall willfully interfere with or obstruct any company engaged in laying the track of its railroad across any other railroad,...
• Section 4955.10 - Railroad Crossings.
  When the tracks of two railroads cross each other, or in any way connect at a common grade, the crossings shall be made and...
• Section 4955.11 - Crossings Of Trains.
  When two passenger or freight trains approach a crossing at the same time, the train on the road first built shall have precedence if...
• Section 4955.12 - Rules To Be Made And Published.
  The managing agent or superintendent of each railroad shall establish, and publish to all the employees on the railroad, such rules and regulations as...
• Section 4955.13 - Failure To Publish Rules - Forfeiture.
  If a managing agent or superintendent fails to establish and publish rules and regulations as provided by section 4955.12 of the Revised Code, or...
• Section 4955.14 - Failure To Comply With Rules - Forfeiture.
  An engineer or person in charge of an engine who willfully fails to comply with sections 4955.10 and 4955.11 of the Revised Code, or...
• Section 4955.15 - Trains May Cross Without Stopping.
  If two railroads crossing each other, or in any way connecting at a common grade, by works or fixtures to be erected by them...
• Section 4955.16 - Mode Of Crossing Ordered By Court.
  When outside the limits of a municipal corporation it becomes necessary for the track of a railroad, street or electric railway, or interurban railroad...
• Section 4955.17 - Grade Crossings Avoided If Practicable.
  If in the judgment of the court of common pleas or judge of such court, as provided in section 4955.16 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 4955.18 - Order Of Court.
  The court, by its order referred to in section 4955.16 of the Revised Code, shall define the manner in which the applicant is to...
• Section 4955.19 - Exceptions.
  Sections 4955.16 to 4955.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not prevent any street or electric railway company, interurban railroad company, or railroad company...
• Section 4955.20 - Highway Crossings And Sidewalks - Maintenance And Repair.
  Companies operating a railroad in this state shall build and keep in repair good and sufficient crossings over or approaches to such railroad, its...
• Section 4955.201 - Abandonment Of Railroad Track.
  (A) If the interstate commerce commission approves the abandonment of a railroad track that crosses a road or highway at grade, the railroad that...
• Section 4955.21 - Service Of Notice.
  The officers having charge of a public highway, street, or alley intersected by a railroad shall serve a written notice upon the nearest station...
• Section 4955.22 - Failure To Construct Or Repair Crossings Or Sidewalks - Forfeiture.
  A railroad company which neglects to comply with sections 4955.20 and 4955.21 of the Revised Code is liable to pay damage to the municipal...
• Section 4955.23 - Crossings Above Streets.
  No person or company owning or operating a railroad which crosses over and above a street less than seventy feet in width, in any...
• Section 4955.24 - Construction And Maintenance Of Bridge - Forfeiture.
  A person or company owning or operating a railroad that fails to comply with the requirements of or violates section 4955.23 of the Revised...
• Section 4955.25 - Legislative Authority May Regulate Use Of Bridge.
  The legislative authority of a city may prohibit the switching of freight engines, trains, or cars, over or on a crossing or bridge referred...
• Section 4955.26 - Crossing Of Highway To Cemetery.
  All railroads constructed across an avenue or public highway leading from a city to a public cemetery of such city located within or without...
• Section 4955.27 - Private Crossing.
  When a person owns fifteen or more acres of land in one body through which a railroad passes, which land is so situated that...
• Section 4955.28 - Expense Of Private Crossing - Right Of Entry.
  If, for four months after the request by a landowner for that purpose, the company or person neglects to construct a good and sufficient...
• Section 4955.29 - Exception.
  Sections 4955.27 and 4955.28 of the Revised Code do not apply to any case in which compensation for building a private crossing is considered...
• Section 4955.30 - Freightways May Be Constructed.
  A person owning or operating a coal or iron-ore mine, stone quarry, rolling mill, or machine shop, who, as a means of removing the...
• Section 4955.31 - Plan Must Be Approved.
  Before a person constructs a railway across a railroad as provided in section 4955.30 of the Revised Code, he shall submit the plan of...
• Section 4955.32 - Use Of Horn Or Alternative Audible Warning At Highway Or Crossing.
  (A) As used in this section, "lite locomotive consist" means a consist of locomotives not attached to any piece of equipment or attached only...
• Section 4955.321 - Alternative Audible Warning System.
  The public utilities commission may evaluate alternative systems for providing an audible warning of an approaching locomotive . The commission may approve the use...
• Section 4955.322 - Immunity From Liability At Private Crossings.
  The sounding of a locomotive horn at a private crossing or the failure to sound a locomotive horn at a private crossing is not...
• Section 4955.33 - Crossbuck Signs.
  At all points where its railroad crosses a public road at a common grade, each company shall erect crossbuck signing at positions at each...
• Section 4955.331 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-20-1994
• Section 4955.34 - Failure To Erect Warning Signs.
  Every engineer or person in charge of a locomotive who fails to comply with section 4955.32 of the Revised Code is personally liable to...
• Section 4955.35 - Blocking Of Frogs.
  Every railroad company operating a railroad or part of a railroad within this state shall adjust, fill, or block all angles in frogs, switches,...
• Section 4955.36 - Removal Of Obstructive Vegetation At Crossings.
  Every railroad company shall destroy or remove plants, trees, brush, or other obstructive vegetation upon its right-of-way at each intersection with a public road...
• Section 4955.37 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-30-1995
• Section 4955.41 - Railroad Quiet Zones - Definitions.
  As used in sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code: (A) "Railroad quiet zone" means a designated area including and adjacent to one...
• Section 4955.42 - Railroad Quiet Zones - Municipal Corporation Or Township May Establish - Procedure.
  (A) A municipal corporation or township may establish within its jurisdiction one or more railroad quiet zones implementing and using one or more supplemental...
• Section 4955.43 - Railroad Quiet Zones - Notice To Railroads - Order Regarding Audible Warning Signals.
  (A) At least ninety days prior to the date of first operation of a railroad quiet zone established pursuant to section 4955.42 of the...
• Section 4955.44 - Railroad Quiet Zones - Other Laws Preempted - Emergency Exception - Suspension Of Status.
  (A) On and after the date of first operation of a railroad quiet zone established pursuant to section 4955.42 of the Revised Code, divisions...
• Section 4955.45 - Railroad Quiet Zones - Report To Commission - Crossing Inspections - Additional Safety Measures.
  (A) Each municipal corporation or township that has established a railroad quiet zone pursuant to sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code shall...
• Section 4955.46 - Railroad Quiet Zones - Governmental Function - State Liability - Maintenance Costs - Funds.
  (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the designation, establishment, design, construction, implementation, operation, repair, or maintenance of, or the lack of any of...
• Section 4955.47 - Railroad Quiet Zones - Railroads And Employees Not Liable For Acts In Compliance.
  No railroad company and no employee or agent of the company shall be charged, or is liable in damages to person or property, for...
• Section 4955.99 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-30-1995

Last modified: October 10, 2016