Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-05-06
CHAPTER 238-H. r. No. 1T
A RTuY,

FOR AN ACT to amend Mason's
Minnesota Statutes of 1927, Sec
tions 475S, ASA, 4755, 4759 and
AGO, relating to the promotion
of the safety Of employees and
travellers on railroads by requir-
ing common carriers engaged In
operating railroads in the State
of Minnesota to establish and
maintain q safe and sufficient
clearance between structures To-
Gated on and over their r0adways
and cars passing over their lines
and to establish and maintain
safe and sufficient clearance
between their tracks and by re
quiring other persons and cor
porations to establish and main
tain a safe and sufficient clear.
ance between structures and OBJ
structi0ns and the roadway o.
such common carriers and fOl
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF
the Sti.e of Minnesota:
Section l. That MaSon's Mime
sofa Statutes, 1927, Section 4753
be, and the same is hereby, amend
ed to read as follows:
"4753. That the provisions Of this
act shall apply to any person, COR
poration or anyone owning, OPP
Grating or maintaining any struc-
ture or obstruction adjacent to any
railway tracks and to any corpora
ton or receiver thereof, or to any
person or persons while engaged
as common carriers in the trans
portation by railroad of passengers
or property within this state to
which the regulative powers of this
state extend, except railways op-
Grated by the electric trolley sys-
tenn"
Section 2. That Mason's Mime
sofa Statutes, 1927, Section 4754
be, and the same is hereby, amend
ed to read as follows:
"4754. That on and after the pass
age of this act, it shall be unlaw-
full for any common carrier, or
any other person. to erect or re-
construct and thereafter maintain
on any standard gauge road on
its line or on any standard gauge
sidetrack used in connectio-. there
with, for use in any traffic men-
toned in Section one of this act
any warehouse, coal chute. stock
pen, pole, mail crane, standpipe
hog drencher. or any permanent
or fixed structure or obstruction
or in eXcavating allow any embank-
ment of earth or natural rock to
remain upon its line Of railroad
or on any sidetrack used in con-
nection Herewith at distance
less than eight feet measured from
the center line of the track, which
said structure or obstruction ad-
joins on standard gauge roads; MOI
shall any overhead wires, bridges
viaduct or other obstruction passing
over or above its tracks as afore-
said be erected or reconstructed
at less height than twenty -one
CID feet. measured from the top OF
the track rail.
Provided. however, that any eX-
listing structure may be maintained
and repaired only when the cost
Of such repairs in any IL month
period does not exceed $50 of the
original cost Of the structure. II
the cost of the repairs to be made
in any u month period exceed 25Ts
Of the original cost of the struc-
ture then. in that event, such re-
pairs shall not be made unless the
same are authorized by the Rail.
road and Warehouse Commission
after a hearing. No such structure
shall be further repaired or main
tanned when there has been ex.
pended sum equal to 500 Of the
original cost of the structure ir
repairs or maintenance. In con-
STRUNG this Act, platform shall
be regarded as separate struc.
ture.
Provided, further, that this act
shall not be construed to apply tt
yards and terminals Of depot com.
panies or railway companies usee
only for passenger service. But
nevertheless. in the event Of per.
sonal injury sustained by any EN-.
ploye of any such -ompany in thi!
proviso mentioned, by reason o.
noncompliance with the provision!
of this act, such employe, or ir
case Of his death, his persona
representative, shall have all thu
rights, privileges and immunitie!
enumerated in Section 9 hereof"
Section 3. That Mason's Mime.
sofa Statutes, 1927, Section Ass
be, and the same is hereby, amend
ed to read as follows:
"4755. That the Railroad ane
Warehouse Commission may upor
application made, after thorough
investigation in any particular cast
permit any common carrier or any
person or corporation to which Thu
act applies to erect any overhead
or side obstruction at a less dis
lance from the track than hereir
provided for, and to reconstruc
and maintain the same when in TIT
Judgment of said commission 6
compliance with the c, rance pre-
scribed herein would be unreason'
able or unnecessary or the erection
Of such overhead or side obStruc'
ton or the reconstruction ane
maintenance of the same at a les
distance from the track than herein
provided would not create con-
dition unduly hazardous to the EN-
ployes of such common carrier o.
any person or corporation"
Section 4. That Mason's Mime