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Ohio Rev Code § 4971.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4971 | Reorganization of Railroads|Section 4971.15 | Stocks or Bonds Held in a Fiduciary Capacity.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a portion of the stock or bonds of a railroad company is held by the state, by a county, township, or municipal corporation, or by an executor, administrator, guardian, or otherwise in a fiduciary capacity, the governor, board of county commissioners, board of township trustees, legislative authority, or other authority of the municipal corporation, or person holding in fiduciary capacity, may become parties to an agreement for the reorganization of such company, and may control, exchange, or manage such stock or bonds according to the terms of the agreement and receive new stock or bonds to be issued in place of the original stock or bonds, which shall be held on the same terms and subject to all liens which attached to the original stock or bonds.
Ohio Rev Code § 4971.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4971 | Reorganization of Railroads|Section 4971.16 | Rights of Creditors Who Do Not Sign Agreement.

Effective: October 12, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly|As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law to provide.Persons in interest who fail to become parties to the agreement within the four-month period referred to in section 4971.14 of the Revised Code are entitled to the same rights, interest, estate, remedy, liens, and action, and none other, which parties in interest of like class and amount who signed the agreement obtained by and under it. If a person in interest fails for six years after the publication of the notice mentioned in such section to apply at the principal office of the company, either in person or by proxy, to become a party in interest in the agreement, such person, unless an infant or incompetent person, shall be barred of all interest, claim, right, or action under the agreement or otherwise. In case of such disability such rights shall be extended for two years after the termination of the disability.
Ohio Rev Code § 4971.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4971 | Reorganization of Railroads|Section 4971.17 | Court to Make Order as to Costs.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the agreement provided for by section 4971.14 of the Revised Code is made and filed, notice of it given, and proof thereof made or offered to be made in the court in which the proceedings are pending, the court shall dismiss the proceedings. Such court may make such order or decree touching the costs and expenses of the proceeding as it deems just.
Ohio Rev Code § 4971.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4971 | Reorganization of Railroads|Section 4971.18 | Agreement May Be With Each Interest.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The adjustment agreement is not required to be between the several interests specified in section 4971.14 of the Revised Code, but may be between each interest separately, and the railroad company.
Ohio Rev Code § 4971.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4971 | Reorganization of Railroads|Section 4971.19 | When Railroad Used by Two Companies.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the railroad involved in the judicial proceedings referred to in sections 4971.01 to 4971.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, is used, in whole or part, by the railroad company in common with another railroad company, on the same track, between points on the railroad common to both, and within the limits of the termini established by their charters, the company owning the railroad, if it can be done without impairing the usefulness thereof to such company, may lease for a period of years for an annual rent or sell for a fixed sum, to the company to which the railroad, in whole or in part, is common, an undivided interest in such railroad upon such terms as they agree upon. Such lease or sale shall be reported to and approved by the court, and when made and approved, the lessee or vendee thereof shall hold such interest free from any previous lien on it.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.01 | Relief Association Prohibited.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No company created under and by virtue of the laws of this state or of any other state or country, having and operating a railroad in this state, shall establish, maintain, or assist in establishing or maintaining a relief association or society, the rules or bylaws of which require a person or employee becoming a member of such association or society to enter into an agreement or stipulation, directly or indirectly, whereby he stipulates or agrees to surrender or waive a right of damages against any railroad company for personal injuries or death, or to surrender or waive any right in case he asserts such claim for damages.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.02 | Unlawful for Railroad to Limit Liability as Employer.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No railroad company owning and operating, or operating, a railroad shall adopt or promulgate a rule or regulation for the government of its servants or employees, or make or enter into an agreement with a person engaged in or about to engage in its service, in which such employee in any manner promises or agrees to hold such company harmless on account of an injury he may receive by reason of accident to, breakage, defect, or insufficiency in the cars or machinery and attachments thereto belonging on cars owned, operated, or run by such company being defective.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.03 | Unlawful for Company to Compel Employee to Join Any Company or Association.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No railroad company shall, directly or indirectly, compel or require an employee to join any company or association, withhold any part of an employee's wages or salary for the payment of dues or assessments in any society or organization, or demand or require either as a condition precedent to securing employment or being employed. Such railroad company shall not discharge an employee because he refuses or neglects to become a member of any society or organization. If an employee is discharged, at any time within ten days after receiving a notice of such discharge he may demand the reason of such discharge, and the railroad company thereupon must give the reason to him in writing.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.04 | Companies Prohibited From Demanding or Receiving Waivers.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No railroad company, insurance society or association, or other person shall demand, accept, or enter into an agreement or stipulation with a person in or about to enter the employ of a railroad company whereby he stipulates or agrees to surrender or waive any right to damages against a railroad company thereafter arising for personal injury or death, or whereby he agrees to surrender or waive, in case he asserts such right, any other right.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.05 | Agreements Void.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|All rules, regulations, stipulations, and agreements, declared unlawful by sections 4973.02 to 4973.04, inclusive, of the Revised Code, are void. A corporation, association, or person violating, or aiding or abetting the violation of such sections shall forfeit to the person thus wronged or deprived of his rights, not less than fifty nor over five hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered by a civil action.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.06 | Defective Machinery Prima-Facie Evidence of Negligence.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No railroad company knowingly or negligently shall use or operate a car or locomotive that is defective, or upon which the machinery or attachments belonging to such car or locomotive are in any manner defective. If an employee of such company receives injury by reason of a defect in a car or locomotive, or the machinery or attachments belonging to such car or locomotive, owned and operated or being operated by such company, it shall be deemed to have had knowledge of such defect before and at the time such injury is so sustained. When such defect is made to appear in the trial of any action brought by such employee, or his legal representative, against a railroad company for damages on account of injuries so received, that fact shall be prima-facie evidence of negligence on the part of such company.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.07 | Employee Definitions.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In actions against a railroad company for personal injury to a person while in its employ, or for death resulting from such injury, arising from the negligence of such company or any of its officers or employees, in addition to other liability, it shall be held that every person in the employ of such company, with actual power or authority to direct or control another employee is not the fellow servant, but superior of such other employee. Every person in the employ of such company who has charge or control of employees in a separate branch or department is to be held to be the superior and not fellow servant of employees in another branch or department who have no power to direct or control in the branch or department in which they are employed.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.08 | Presumptive Evidence.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Every railroad company operating a railroad in whole or part within this state is liable for all damages sustained by any of its employees by reason of personal injury or death of such employee:(A) When such injury or death is caused by a defect in any locomotive, engine, car, handcar, rail, track, machinery, or appliance required by such company to be used by its employees in and about the business of their employment, if such defect could have been discovered by reasonable and proper care, tests, or inspection. Proof of such defect shall be presumptive evidence of knowledge of it on the part of such company. An employee of such railroad company who is injured or killed as a result of such a defect shall not be deemed to have assumed the risk occasioned thereby, although continuing in the employment of the company after knowledge of the defect, nor shall continuance in employment after such knowledge by an employee be deemed an act of contributory negligence.(B) While such employee is engaged in operating, running, riding upon, or switching passenger, freight, or other trains, engines, or cars, and in the performance of his duties, and when such injury was caused by the carelessness or negligence of any other employee, officer, or agent of such company, in the discharge of or for failure to discharge his duties as such.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.09 | Slight Contributory Negligence No Bar to Recovery.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In all actions against a railroad company, operating a railroad in whole or part within this state, for personal injury to an employee or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that he was guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery when such negligence was slight and that of the employer greater in comparison. But the damages must be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee. All questions of negligence and contributory negligence are for the jury.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.10 | Engineers Addicted to Drink Not to Be Employed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person or company operating a railroad in whole or in part in this state, directly or by or through a representative, shall knowingly suffer or permit a person to run or in any capacity to operate a railroad locomotive on any part of its railroad in this state who is intoxicated or in the habit of becoming intoxicated, or knowingly continue the employment of a person in such capacity after he becomes or is intoxicated while in charge of such locomotive.For every violation of this section, the person or company operating such railroad shall forfeit to the state two hundred dollars to be recovered in its name in an action to be prosecuted in any county through which the railroad runs, by the prosecuting attorney of such county, who shall be entitled to twenty-five per cent of the recovery. The balance shall be paid into the county treasury.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.11 | Hours of Service of Certain Railroad Employees.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No company operating a railroad over thirty miles in length or an interurban railroad or street railway over four miles in length shall permit a conductor, engineer, fireman, brakeman, or trainman on a train, a telegraph operator, or a conductor or motorman on a street railway, who has worked as such for fifteen consecutive hours, again to go on duty or perform work until he has had at least eight hours' rest, except in cases of detention of trains or cars caused by accident, unavoidable or otherwise. Such companies shall so regulate the hours of employment of their employees that each employee shall have at least eight consecutive hours of rest in each period of twenty-four hours.A railroad company which knowingly violates this section shall forfeit not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars for the first offense, and for any subsequent offense, not less than one thousand nor more than fifteen hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil action in the name of the state.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.12 | Seats for Conductor and Motorman.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person or company shall operate in this state any electric or street railway car or interurban railroad car unless it is provided at all times during operation with seats for the motorman and conductor.A violation of this section constitutes a violation of it by the president, general manager, general superintendent, or other officer in charge of operation. An offense on any calendar day and as to any car is a separate and distinct offense from a violation on any other such day.The prosecuting attorneys of the various counties shall prosecute violations of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.13 | Sale of Railroad Scrap Metal.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No officer, agent, or employee of a company operating a railroad, except the superintendent, general managing agent, or a receiver of the company, may sell or dispose of worn or scrap metal, iron, brass, or other metal owned by such company. All sales and barter of such scraps or other metals made by any other officer, agent, or employee are void. No such superintendent, managing agent, or receiver shall sell or dispose of such scrap or other metals in quantities less than one ton, nor without delivering to the purchaser a bill of sale of such metal, a copy of which shall be retained and filed in the office of such superintendent, agent, or receiver.If a superintendent, managing agent, or receiver of a railroad company sells or disposes of railroad scrap metal in quantities less than one ton, or without delivering a bill of sale of such metal to the purchaser, the company which he represents shall not thereafter be entitled to the benefit of sections 4973.14 and 4973.15 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.14 | Evidence of Title of Scrap.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The person, company, or firm to whom is offered for sale, pledge, or trade, worn or used links, pins, journal bearings, or other worn, used, or detached appendages of railroad equipment, or scrap metal of iron, brass, or steel appertaining to such equipment or to a railroad track, before purchasing or dealing in it, shall ascertain whether the ownership thereof is lawfully derived, by bill of sale or otherwise, from a company, or the superintendent, managing agent, or receiver of the company. When the right or title to such article of metal is drawn in question in any suit, the person, company, or firm dealing in such metal, or its assignee, party thereto, must make prime-facie proof of title and ownership so derived.If it appears, prima facie, from the evidence on the trial that any of the articles or metals in controversy were unlawfully obtained, and mixed or confused with other scrap metal, it shall be deemed a confusion of goods unless the party claiming against the title of the company establishes, prima facie, a lawful title from or through a railroad company to the residue.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.15 | Company May Replevy Scrap.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|By its proper officer or agent, or by the receiver of such company, a railroad company may claim to be the general owner of and replevy any of the metals or articles mentioned in section 4973.14 of the Revised Code, and metals with which they may have been confused, found in the possession of a person, firm, or company, when there is good reason to believe that such metals or articles were unlawfully taken from such company or its receiver. Instead of the usual averment as to ownership in the affidavit for a writ of replevin, it is sufficient for the officer, agent, or receiver of such company to aver that he believes such metals or articles were unlawfully taken from such company or some other company. The person, firm, or company claiming the right or title to such metals or articles in such action, prima facie shall prove a right or title to them, lawfully derived. In the absence of such proof, the company or receiver claiming such metals or articles shall be held to be the general owner of them, but any other company or receiver, upon showing that part of such metals or articles unlawfully were taken from it or him, shall be entitled to such part upon payment of a proper share of the cost and expenses of replevying it.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.16 | Liability of Company or Receiver.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If a railroad company or its receiver replevies property under section 4973.15 of the Revised Code without reasonable cause to believe that it was unlawfully taken from some company or its receiver, such company or receiver shall be liable to the party entitled to such property in any sum not exceeding double the value of the property so replevied, in addition to such damages as such party sustains thereby.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.18 | Oath of Office and Commission - Powers - Liabilities.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Before entering upon the duties of his office, each policeman appointed under section 4973.17 of the Revised Code shall take and subscribe an oath of office which shall be indorsed on his commission, and said commission with the oath shall be recorded in the office of the secretary of state who shall charge and collect a fee of one dollar for such recording. Policemen so appointed and commissioned shall severally possess and exercise the powers of, and be subject to the liabilities of, municipal policemen while discharging the duties for which they are appointed.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.19 | Power of Police to Enforce Regulations and Make Arrests.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A company which avails itself of sections 4973.17 and 4973.18 of the Revised Code may make needful regulations to promote the public convenience and safety in and about its depots, stations, and grounds, not inconsistent with law, and print and post such regulations conspicuously upon its depots or station buildings. Policemen appointed under such sections shall enforce and compel obedience to such regulations. The keeper of jails, lockups, or station houses in each county shall receive persons arrested for the commission of an offense against such regulations or the laws of the state upon or along the railroad or premises of such company.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.20 | When Police to Wear Badges.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Except while acting in the discharge of duty as a detective for the railroad, every policeman appointed under section 4973.17 of the Revised Code shall, when on duty, wear in plain view a metallic shield with the word "police" and the name of the railroad for which he is appointed inscribed on it.
Ohio Rev Code § 4973.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4973 | Employees; Policemen|Section 4973.21 | Compensation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The compensation of policemen appointed or commissioned as provided in section 4973.17 of the Revised Code shall be paid by the company for which they respectively are appointed, and at such rates as are agreed upon by the parties.