Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4957 - Elimination Of Crossings

• Section 4957.01 - Alteration Or Elimination Of Grade Or Other Crossings.
  If the legislative authority of a municipal corporation in which a railroad and a street or other public highway cross each other at a...
• Section 4957.02 - Resolution To Alter Or Abolish.
  When it is deemed necessary by a municipal corporation or a county to join with any railroad company in the alteration or abolition of...
• Section 4957.03 - Ordinance Or Resolution To Proceed With Improvement.
  In not less than thirty nor more than ninety days after the passage of the resolution referred to in section 4957.02 of the Revised...
• Section 4957.04 - Acquiring Necessary Property - Sale To Railroad Company.
  The land or property required to make the alteration in the street or highway necessitated by a proposed crossing improvement, shall be purchased or...
• Section 4957.05 - Apportionment Of Cost.
  The cost of the construction of the improvement in a crossing, including the cost of land or property purchased or appropriated, and the payment...
• Section 4957.06 - Cost Of Maintenance Of Bridge Borne By County Or State.
  After the completion of the crossing alteration, the crossings and approaches shall be kept in repair as follows: (A) When the public way crosses...
• Section 4957.07 - Assessment And Determination Of Damages.
  All claims for damages by reason of a crossing improvement, filed as provided in section 4957.02 of the Revised Code, shall be assessed and...
• Section 4957.08 - Company Failing To Comply With Agreement.
  If a railroad company fails to comply with any provision of an agreement entered of record in a court of common pleas as provided...
• Section 4957.09 - Grade Crossing On County Line Road.
  When a grade crossing is on a county line road, the boards of county commissioners of the counties in which such crossing is situated...
• Section 4957.10 - Powers As To Grades Above Or Below Railroad Tracks.
  Any municipal corporation may raise or lower, or cause to be raised or lowered, the grade of any street or way owned by it,...
• Section 4957.11 - Changes In Location Of Public Ways.
  When the legislative authority of a municipal corporation deems it necessary in the abolishment of grade crossings to change the location of any street,...
• Section 4957.12 - Preparation Of Plans And Specifications.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, for the purpose of making or causing a crossing improvement to be made, by ordinance may require...
• Section 4957.13 - Court To Determine Manner Of Improvement.
  If at the expiration of three months from the passage of the ordinance referred to in section 4957.12 of the Revised Code, the railroad...
• Section 4957.14 - Petition To Court.
  Either the municipal corporation or the railroad company, after the expiration of three months from the passage of the ordinance referred to by section...
• Section 4957.15 - Procedure.
  Upon the filing of a petition under section 4957.14 of the Revised Code, accompanied by plans, the railroad company or municipal corporation opposed to...
• Section 4957.16 - Order Of The Court.
  If the court finds that the public security and convenience require the changes to be made, and that the plans presented by the petitioner...
• Section 4957.17 - Writ Of Mandamus.
  If a municipal corporation or railroad company refuses or neglects to comply with the orders or findings made by the court as provided in...
• Section 4957.18 - Apportionment Of Cost Between Municipal Corporation And Railroad.
  The cost of constructing a crossing improvement authorized, including the making of ways, crossings, or viaducts, above or below the railroad tracks, and the...
• Section 4957.19 - Payment Of Railroad Company's Proportion Of Cost.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, by ordinance, prescribe the manner and time of payment by a railroad company of the proportion...
• Section 4957.20 - Notice Of Intention To Make Improvement.
  Before any work is done which is required in the making of a proposed crossing improvement, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall...
• Section 4957.21 - Claims For Damages And Judicial Inquiry.
  The laws relating to the manner of service of the notices, the filing of claims for damages, and the effect of failure to file...
• Section 4957.22 - Height Of Viaduct.
  Any way, crossing, or viaduct constructed over a railroad track in any municipal corporation shall be of such height as not to be of...
• Section 4957.23 - Acquiring Land For Erection Of Piers And Supports.
  The land or property required to make alteration in the street, road, alley, or other way, or any right, title, or interest in a...
• Section 4957.24 - Cost Of Maintenance.
  After the completion of the work, crossings and approaches shall be kept in repair as follows: (A) When the public way crosses a railroad...
• Section 4957.25 - Street Railway Company To Share Expense.
  In case the track of any street railway company within the limits of a municipal corporation where the improvements authorized by sections 4957.10 to...
• Section 4957.26 - Repairs.
  A street railway company shall keep in repair at its own expense all tracks affected by the improvement referred to by section 4957.25 of...
• Section 4957.27 - Crossings Above Or Below Grade.
  Except as provided in sections 4957.30 to 4957.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code, all crossings constructed after May 3, 1904, whether of highways by...
• Section 4957.28 - Railroad Crossings.
  Every railroad company building a new line of road under its charter powers across a highway shall construct it above or below the grade...
• Section 4957.29 - Highway Crossings.
  Every municipal corporation or other authority building a highway across an existing railroad shall construct it above or below the grade of such railroad,...
• Section 4957.30 - Petition For Grade Crossings.
  When it is desired by a railroad company constructing a new railroad or in changing or altering the location of one previously constructed, or...
• Section 4957.31 - Contents Of Petition.
  The petition referred to in section 4957.30 of the Revised Code shall set forth the reasons that are supposed to make such change or...
• Section 4957.32 - Appeals.
  Appeals may be taken from the decision of the court of common pleas to the court of appeals in proceedings under section 4957.31 of...
• Section 4957.33 - Additional Tracks And Switches.
  Sections 4957.27 to 4957.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not prevent a railroad company from laying additional tracks at previously existing crossings, or...
• Section 4957.34 - Plans And Specifications To Be Filed With Commission.
  Every railroad company, public or private corporation, or person building, or permitting to be built, any bridge, viaduct, overhead roadway, footbridge, wire, and other...
• Section 4957.35 - Height Of Structures Over Railroads.
  Except cases in which the public utilities commission finds that such construction is impracticable, bridges, viaducts, overhead roadways, footbridges, wire, or other structure built...
• Section 4957.36 - Exceptions.
  The exception in section 4957.35 of the Revised Code does not apply to the structures named in such section when built over the main...
• Section 4957.37 - Costs.
  In case of the rebuilding of bridges or the other structures provided for in section 4957.35 of the Revised Code, if the structure is...
• Section 4957.38 - Injunction.
  Sections 4957.34 to 4957.37, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may be enforced by an injunction on complaint of any interested person, corporation, or board....

Last modified: October 10, 2016