Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4963 - Trains; Equipment

• Section 4963.01 - Posting Time Of Arrival Of Trains.
  A company or person operating a railroad within this state shall place a blackboard, at least four feet in length and two feet in...
• Section 4963.02 - Waiting Rooms - Toilet Rooms.
  Every person, firm, or corporation operating a railway wholly or in part within this state shall provide a suitable waiting room for the use...
• Section 4963.03 - Duty Of Public Utilities Commission.
  Upon the written complaint of ten or more citizens of this state being filed with the public utilities commission that section 4963.02 of the...
• Section 4963.04 - Movable Bridge Between Passenger Cars Required.
  Every railroad company conveying passengers shall provide the passenger cars in its trains with a flexible or movable bridge or apron of the full...
• Section 4963.05 - Heating For Cars.
  When necessary to heat its cars for carrying passengers, mail, baggage, or express matter, each railroad company shall do so by electricity, hot water,...
• Section 4963.06 - Fire Extinguishers Required.
  All railroad coaches carrying passengers shall be equipped with at least one portable fire extinguisher. Such fire extinguishers shall be of a construction which...
• Section 4963.07 - Distance From Station Platform To Steps On Passenger Cars - Forfeiture.
  Companies and person operating a railroad shall so regulate the distance between station floors or platforms and the top of the lowest step on...
• Section 4963.08 - Lights On Front And Rear Of Car Required.
  No superintendent, trainmaster, yardmaster, or other employee of a railroad company doing business in this state shall allow or permit a passenger or freight...
• Section 4963.09 To 4963.13 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-19-1961
• Section 4963.14 - Cars From Connecting Railroads.
  A common carrier may refuse to receive from connecting railroads or from any shipper a car not equipped in accordance with sections 4963.09 to...
• Section 4963.15 - Recovery Of Forfeiture.
  No common carrier shall use any locomotive engine, run any train, or haul or permit to be hauled or used on its railroad, any...
• Section 4963.16 - Contributory Negligence.
  Any employee of a common carrier engaged in moving traffic on a railroad between points within this state, who is killed or injured by...
• Section 4963.17 To 4963.20 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-19-1961
• Section 4963.21 - Construction Of Caboose Cars - Exception.
  No common carrier operating a railroad, in whole or in part, within this state, or manager or superintendent of such common carrier, shall require...
• Section 4963.22 - Automatic Or Foot-power Doors Required On Locomotive Engines.
  Every railroad company operating locomotives on its railroads in or through this state shall provide and equip each locomotive engine so operated in this...
• Section 4963.23 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-19-1961
• Section 4963.24 - Footboards.
  No railroad doing business in this state shall operate or permit to be operated in this state, a locomotive regularly assigned in mine run,...
• Section 4963.25 To 4963.34 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-19-1961
• Section 4963.35 - Spark Arresters.
  (A) No person operating a railroad shall operate a diesel locomotive engine, other than a turbocharged locomotive, used for the railroad or in the...
• Section 4963.36 - Company Must Keep Right Of Way Free From Combustible Material.
  Every railroad company, or person in charge of a railroad as manager or receiver, shall keep the right of way clear from weeds, high...
• Section 4963.37 - Liability Of Railroad Company For Loss Or Damage By Fire.
  Every company, or the receiver of such company, operating a railroad or a part of a railroad is liable for all loss or damage...
• Section 4963.38 - Use Of Property Not Negligence.
  In no case shall it be considered as negligence on the part of the owner or occupant of property injured by fire as provided...
• Section 4963.39 - Costs In Appeal And Attorney Fee.
  If either party appeals from the judgment of a court in which an action under sections 4963.37 and 4963.38 of the Revised Code is...
• Section 4963.40 - Rules And Regulations Governing The Construction And Maintenance Of Telephone And Telegraph Wires.
  The public utilities commission shall determine standards of maintenance and operation and the nature, location, and character of the construction to be used where...
• Section 4963.41 - Duty Of The Public Utilities Commission.
  The public utilities commission shall enforce section 4963.40 of the Revised Code, and for that purpose shall have power to cause the removal of...
• Section 4963.42 - Placement Of Structures And Material - Limitation - Rules.
  Material of all kinds and all permanent structures such as buildings, walls, coal bins, tunnels, bridges, station shelter sheds, standpipes, signal masts, poles, freight...
• Section 4963.43 - Filing Plans And Specifications.
  Every railroad company, public or private corporation, or person proposing to build any structure or place any material as set forth in section 4963.42...
• Section 4963.44 - Telegraph And Telephone Wires.
  Every railroad company operating ten miles or more of railroad for the transportation of passengers and freight shall erect and maintain in complete working...
• Section 4963.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 4963.06 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars. (B) Whoever,...

Last modified: October 10, 2016