Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5523 - Grade Crossings

• Section 5523.01 - Relocation Or Grade Changes - Elimination Of Grade Crossings.
  For the purpose of eliminating one or more existing grade crossings on any road or highway on the state highway system or any extension...
• Section 5523.02 - Relocation Of State Highway To Eliminate Grade Crossings.
  When it is necessary, in the elimination of existing grade crossings, to change the location of any highway on the state highway system or...
• Section 5523.03 - Issuance Of Finding And Order On Crossing To Be Abolished - Hearing.
  The director of transportation, in a grade crossing elimination, shall proceed by issuing a finding and order, setting out a full written description of...
• Section 5523.04 - Railroad Company To Co-operate.
  If the director of transportation enters a finding and determination for a proposed grade crossing improvement the railroad companies involved in such proceedings shall...
• Section 5523.05 - Failure To Agree Upon Necessity Of Improvement - Plans - Specifications.
  If at the expiration of three months from the time of the entering of the finding and determination for the proposed grade crossing improvement...
• Section 5523.06 - Right To File Answer To Petition - Presentation Of Other Plans - Hearing - Finding.
  Upon the filing of a petition under section 5523.05 of the Revised Code, accompanied by plans, the railroad company or director opposed to the...
• Section 5523.07 - Finding Of Court - Modification Or Alteration Of Plans - Apportionment - Appeal.
  If the court finds any of the plans presented under section 5523.05 of the Revised Code are reasonable and practicable it shall so find...
• Section 5523.08 - Costs Chargeable To The Improvement - Proportion Of Costs.
  The cost of constructing the improvement authorized, including the making of ways, crossings, or viaducts, above or below the railroad tracks, together with sufficient...
• Section 5523.09 - Contract To Be Approved By Attorney General.
  Before the director of transportation may enter into any contract provided for in section 5523.08 of the Revised Code, such contract shall be submitted...
• Section 5523.10 - Purchase Or Appropriation Of Property For Grade Crossing Elimination.
  The property or rights therein, necessary in making a proposed grade crossing improvement and any relocation of the highway, shall be purchased or appropriated...
• Section 5523.11 - Plans Of Proposed Improvement.
  Before any work is done that may be required in the making of the proposed grade crossing elimination improvement, the director of transportation shall...
• Section 5523.12 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-25-1978
• Section 5523.13 - Director May Prescribe Manner And Time Of Payment.
  The director of transportation may prescribe the manner and time of payment by a railroad company of the proportion of the cost of the...
• Section 5523.14 - Clearance Under Viaduct.
  Any way, crossing, or viaduct constructed over the tracks of any railroad company under sections 5523.01 to 5523.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall...
• Section 5523.15 - Co-operation By Municipal Corporations.
  A municipal corporation may co-operate with the department of transportation in the abolishment of railway grade crossings and the construction or reconstruction of bridges...
• Section 5523.16 - Appeal To Public Utilities Commission.
  From the finding and order of the director of transportation that such improvement as provided for in section 5523.02 of the Revised Code is...
• Section 5523.17 - Improvement To Be Kept In Repair - Responsibility For Bridge Inspection.
  After the completion of the work of constructing, reconstructing, widening, or realigning a separated crossing by the director of transportation, in accordance with sections...
• Section 5523.18 - Costs Of Improvement.
  The proportion of the cost of grade crossing improvement to be paid by the state shall be paid by the director of transportation, upon...
• Section 5523.19 - Separated Crossing Not Constructed Under Certain Sections.
  When a separated crossing, which was not constructed in accordance with sections 4957.01 to 4957.26 or sections 5561.01 to 5561.15 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 5523.20 - Grade Separation When Highway Is Adjacent To Or Near A Railroad.
  When a state highway or an extension or relocation thereof is parallel, adjacent, or near to a railroad, and the director of transportation deems...
• Section 5523.31 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 4907.471.
  Effective Date: 10-29-1989
• Section 5523.311 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 4907.472.
  Effective Date: 07-01-1989
• Section 5523.312 - Renumbered Rc 4907.473.
  Effective Date: 10-29-1989
• Section 5523.32, 5523.33 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 4907.474, 4907.475.
  Effective Date: 10-29-1989
• Section 5523.99 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-29-1989

Last modified: October 10, 2016