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23 ME Rev Stat § 7013 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 611: SAFETY PROVISIONS|23 §7013. Interference with performance of duty

 §7013. Interference with performance of duty Obstruction or interference with the performance of any act authorized or required in this chapter is declared to be a misdemeanor and any person convicted of the same shall be punished by a fine of not more than $20 or by imprisonment for not more than 30 days. Jurisdiction over each such offense is conferred on the District Court.   [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §4 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1987, c. 141, §A4 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7014 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 611: SAFETY PROVISIONS|23 §7014. Orders

 §7014. Orders The Superior Court is given full jurisdiction to enforce compliance with any order issued prior to January 1, 1982, by the Public Utilities Commission or any order issued by the Department of Transportation under this chapter. It is the duty of the Department of Transportation to see that the rights of the public under this chapter are fully protected.   [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §4 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1987, c. 141, §A4 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7081 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 613: MUNICIPAL AID TO CONSTRUCTION|23 §7081. Construction aid; proceedings

 §7081. Construction aid; proceedings A city or town by a 2/3 vote, at any legal meeting called for the purpose, may raise by tax or loan, from time to time or all at once, a sum not exceeding in all 5% on its regular valuation for the time being, to aid in the construction of railroads in such manner as it deems proper and for that purpose may contract with any person or railroad corporation. At the meetings the legal voters shall ballot, those in favor of the proposition voting "Yes," and those opposed voting "No." The ballots cast shall be sorted, counted and declared in open town meeting and recorded and the clerk shall make return of the ballots to the municipal officers who shall examine the return and, if 2/3 of the ballots cast are in favor of the proposition, the officers shall proceed to carry the proposition into effect.   [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §4 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1987, c. 141, §A4 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7082 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 613: MUNICIPAL AID TO CONSTRUCTION|23 §7082. Payment of loan

 §7082. Payment of loan A city or town raising money by loan or under authority conferred by special Act of the Legislature shall raise and pay or fund besides the interest, each year after the third, not less than 3% of the principal. Any city or town receiving money, bonds, certificates of indebtedness or other evidence of debt in consideration of exchange, release or sale of its securities held to indemnify the city or town for having loaned its credit or issued its bonds in aid of any railroad shall hold that money, bonds, certificates of indebtedness or other evidence of debt, or the proceeds thereof as a trust fund to liquidate the outstanding liabilities so long as they may continue.   [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §4 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1987, c. 141, §A4 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7083 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 613: MUNICIPAL AID TO CONSTRUCTION|23 §7083. Call for meetings in cities and proceedings

 §7083. Call for meetings in cities and proceedings Meetings for the purposes set out in this chapter in cities shall be called by the municipal officers, on the order of the common council, like meetings for the election of city officers and the council shall set forth in their order the substance of the proposition to be inserted in the warrant. At the meetings, the voters shall vote in wards by ballot, those in favor of the proposition in the warrant voting "Yes," and those opposed voting "No," and the ballots cast shall be sorted, counted and declared in open ward meeting and recorded. The clerks shall make returns of the ballots to the municipal officers who shall examine them. If 2/3 of the ballots cast are in favor of the proposition, the officers shall proceed to carry it into effect. Lists of voters for use at the meetings shall be prepared in the same manner as for meetings for elections of town or city officers and the lists shall be used at all meetings held under this section and section 7081.   [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §4 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1987, c. 141, §A4 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7084 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 613: MUNICIPAL AID TO CONSTRUCTION|23 §7084. Only one vote a year on same question

 §7084. Only one vote a year on same question Whenever a city or town has voted at any legal meeting upon any question of loaning its credit to, or taking stock in, or in any way aiding any person or corporation, the city or town shall not vote again upon the same subject, except at its annual meetings.   [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §4 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1987, c. 141, §A4 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7085 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 613: MUNICIPAL AID TO CONSTRUCTION|23 §7085. Town agents may vote on town stock

 §7085. Town agents may vote on town stock When a city or town holds stock in a railroad, the municipal officers, or an agent appointed by them in writing, may vote at any meeting of the corporation.   [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §4 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1987, c. 141, §A4 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7086 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 613: MUNICIPAL AID TO CONSTRUCTION|23 §7086. Citizens eligible as directors

 §7086. Citizens eligible as directors Whenever any city or town in the State, in its corporate capacity, holds 1/5 or more of the shares in the capital stock of any railroad incorporated by the Legislature, any citizen of the city or town, being a freeholder and resident, is eligible as a director of the railroad company.   [PL 1987, c. 141, Pt. A, §4 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1987, c. 141, §A4 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7201 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7201. Land taken from railroad; notice and hearing

 §7201. Land taken from railroad; notice and hearing No town way, city street, public easement or highway taking land of any railroad corporation shall be located, unless a notice of the time and place of the hearing on the location has been served on the president, any vice-president, any director, the treasurer or any assistant treasurer, the general manager or the clerk of the corporation at least 7 days before the time for the hearing. In case a corporation has no officer within the State, service shall be made on its duly authorized agent or attorney within the State. Service in like manner shall be made on any corporation which operates a railroad of another corporation under lease or other agreement.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7202 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7202. Location of railroad crossings; expense; appeals

 §7202. Location of railroad crossings; expense; appeals Town ways and highways may be laid out across, over or under any railroad track or through or across any land or right-of-way of any railroad corporation, if the Department of Transportation, after notice and hearing, so determines. The Department of Transportation may refuse its permission or grant permission on terms and conditions as it may prescribe, and the need, if any, for installation, maintenance and operation of signals, gates or other protective measures and may determine whether the expense of building and maintaining so much of the way as is within the limits of the railroad corporation shall be borne by the corporation or by the municipality in which the way is located or by the State, or the Department of Transportation may apportion the expense between the railroad corporation and the municipality or State. The expense of operating and maintaining any protective device shall be borne by the corporation operating the railroad. The expense of installing protective devices at crossings on state and state aid highways shall be apportioned between the railroad corporation and the State as the Department of Transportation shall determine. The expense of installing protective devices at crossings on town ways shall be apportioned between the railroad corporation and the municipality as the department shall determine. The Department of Transportation shall report its determinations and decisions, file the same in its principal office at Augusta and send copies by mail or otherwise to each of the parties subject to the determination, order or decision. Determinations, orders or decisions shall be final and binding on all parties unless an appeal from any determination, order or decision shall be taken to the Superior Court in the county where the crossing is located. The Department of Transportation shall be made a party in the appeal. The appellant shall, within 14 days from the date of the filing of the determination, order or decision, file in the office of the department its reasons for appeal and shall cause to be served on any other interested parties a copy of the reasons for appeal certified by the department. The presiding Justice shall make an order or decree on the appeal as law and justice may require. An appeal may be taken to the law court as in other actions. The final adjudication shall be recorded as provided in section 7204 and a copy of the final decision sent to the Department of Transportation. Costs may be taxed and allowed to either party at the discretion of the court.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7203 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7203. Maintenance of railroad crossings already laid out

 §7203. Maintenance of railroad crossings already laid out Notwithstanding any section of Part 7, in case of ways already laid out which cross over or under any railroad track or tracks and not at grade, the allocation of the expense of maintaining so much of the way as is within the limits of the railroad shall be determined, de novo, as provided by section 7202, by the Department of Transportation on application to it by any corporation whose track is or tracks are so crossed, or on application by the municipal officers of any town in which the crossing is located, or on application by the Department of Transportation.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7204 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7204. Recording adjudications of Department of Transportation

 §7204. Recording adjudications of Department of Transportation Adjudications of the Department of Transportation relating to ways shall be recorded in the office in which the location of the way must be recorded.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7205 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7205. Crossing of public ways

 §7205. Crossing of public ways Railroads may cross any public highways in the line of the railroad, but may not pass along public highways without the written consent of the officials charged by statute with the duty of maintenance of these ways; but when a railroad is hereafter laid out across a public way, it shall be constructed so as to pass either over or under the way unless the Department of Transportation, after notice and hearing, authorizes a crossing at grade. Before entering on the construction of any railroad along or across public ways, the manner and conditions of crossings shall be determined as provided by section 7202.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7206 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7206. Ways raised or lowered; course altered

 §7206. Ways raised or lowered; course altered Highways and other ways may be raised or lowered, or the course of the highways may be altered, to facilitate a crossing or to permit a railroad to pass over or under the highway or at the side of it, on application to the Department of Transportation, and proceedings as provided by section 7202, and for these purposes land may be taken and damages awarded as provided for laying out highways and other ways. The department may prescribe the manner in which the work shall be done by the corporation. While the use of any way is thereby obstructed, a temporary way shall be provided by the corporation.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7207 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7207. Discontinuance of railroad crossings

 §7207. Discontinuance of railroad crossings Any railroad corporation or the municipal officers of a city or town in which a public way crosses or is crossed by a railroad, whether at grade or otherwise, may file a petition in writing with the Department of Transportation alleging that the crossing is no longer required by the public and praying that it may be closed or discontinued. The department shall, on receipt of a petition, appoint a time for hearing on the petition, after notice of not less than 10 days to the petitioners, the railroad corporation owning or operating the railroad and the city or town in which the crossing is located. After the notice and hearing, if the department finds that the crossing is no longer required by the public, it may order that the crossing be closed or discontinued. The department may close or discontinue railroad crossings, after notice of not less than 10 days to the railroad and municipality, or after hearing if requested within the 10 days either by the railroad or the municipality.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7208 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7208. Damages for neglect

 §7208. Damages for neglect When the corporation unnecessarily neglects to perform the acts so required, those injured may recover damages in a civil action, commenced within one year after performance is required.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7209 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7209. Bridges over canals or railroads; repairs; proceedings where unsafe conditions

 §7209. Bridges over canals or railroads; repairs; proceedings where unsafe conditions A railroad may be carried over or under a canal or railroad in a manner as not unnecessarily to impede the travel or transportation on them. The corporation making the crossing is liable for damages, occasioned by making the crossing, in a civil action. Bridges and their abutments, constructed for a crossing of any way, shall be kept in repair by the corporation, or by persons or parties running trains on any railroad crossing a highway or town way. The municipal officers of any city or town may give notice in writing to persons, parties or corporations that a bridge required at the crossing has not been erected, or is out of repair and not safe and convenient, within the requirements of section 3651, or that the crossing of any highway or town way passing the railroad at grade, within their respective cities or towns, is not made or maintained safe and convenient as required by this section. Those persons, parties or corporations shall erect or repair the bridge or make the crossing safe and convenient within 10 days from the service of the notice. If they neglect to do so, any one of the municipal officers may apply to the Superior Court to compel the delinquents to erect or repair the bridge or make the crossing. After hearing, the court may make any order on the hearing, which the public convenience and safety require, and may by injunctions compel the respondents to comply with the order. The officers may, after 10 days from the service of the notice, cause necessary repairs to be made and the expense of the repairs shall be paid by the persons, parties or corporations whose duty it is to keep the crossing safe and convenient.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7210 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7210. Temporary crossings

 §7210. Temporary crossings A railroad company may, for the purpose of accommodating lumbering operations and for the transportation in ordinary vehicles of wood, coal, ice, hay or other commodities, establish and maintain temporary crossings of any railroad operated by it, by agreement with any person who may request the crossing for its purposes. On petition, the Department of Transportation, after notice and hearing, may direct any railroad company to establish and maintain the temporary crossings at places on its line of road as the department deems expedient, and after that the railroad company shall establish the crossings and maintain them in accordance with this section and sections 7211 to 7213.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]Whenever, in the opinion of the department, any temporary railroad crossing established under this section is no longer necessary, the department may, on its own motion or on petition of any interested party, after notice and hearing, order the crossing discontinued.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7211 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7211. Crossing signs on each side of track; whistle and bell

 §7211. Crossing signs on each side of track; whistle and bell At every temporary crossing, established in accordance with section 7210, boards with the words "Temporary railroad crossing, stop, look, listen" distinctly painted on each side, in letters plainly legible, shall be placed on each side line of the railroad right-of-way at the crossing, on a post or other structure, in a position as to be easily seen by persons about to cross the railroad at those places. For any crossing so established, engine bells shall be rung and engine whistles sounded, as provided in section 7214.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7212 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7212. Precautions at crossings

 §7212. Precautions at crossings No team or vehicle may be driven over any temporary crossing unless the team or vehicle is first stopped within a reasonable distance from the nearest rail of the crossing, and the operator, by looking and listening, determines that nothing is approaching on the tracks of the railroad. Nothing in this section may prevent the Department of Transportation from making further rules for safety at any crossing established under its direction as it deems expedient or necessary.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7213 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7213. Crossings kept open part of year; expense apportioned

 §7213. Crossings kept open part of year; expense apportioned Each temporary crossing shall be kept open only during the time each year as the parties interested in the crossing may agree on, or as the Department of Transportation may specify in cases where the department directs the crossings to be established. When the department directs any temporary crossing to be established, it shall determine who shall bear the expense of establishing and maintaining the crossing and it may, if it sees fit, apportion the expense between the railroad company and the person or persons who have petitioned for the crossing. The expense of the crossing signs and the planking between the rails shall in any event be borne by the railroad company.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7215 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7215. Failure to comply; damages

 §7215. Failure to comply; damages For unnecessarily neglecting to comply with any provision of section 7214, the corporation forfeits not more than $500. The corporation is liable for damages for its neglect to comply with these provisions, or for the neglect of any agent or for the mismanagement of an engine, to be recovered in a civil action by the person damaged by the neglect.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7216 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7216. Right of entry

 §7216. Right of entry The officers, agents and employees of the Department of Transportation may enter in and on property of any railroad corporation for the purpose of inspecting railroad-highway crossings and attendant facilities, including grade separation facilities.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7217 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7217. Plant railroads

 §7217. Plant railroads Sections 1251, 1254, 7202, 7205, 7206 and 7214, so far as applicable, apply to plant railroads. The term "plant railroad" means a railroad of the owners of any mills, mines, quarries, gravel pits, log landings or yards, warehouses, storehouses, stock yards, bulk storage yards, airports, piers, docks, shipyards, educational institutions, power plants, gas works, petroleum tank farms or bulk stations, or other manufacturing, processing or mercantile establishments, and including state and federal institutions and developments, erected or in process of erection, which is located on land provided or acquired for the purpose by the owners, and whether operated by the owners or by state or federal government or an agency thereof or through connection with a public railroad under operating contract with it and by operation of its equipment over the plant railroad.   [PL 2013, c. 36, §11 (AMD).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW). PL 2013, c. 36, §11 (AMD).
23 ME Rev Stat § 7218 (2021)
2021 Maine Revised Statutes|TITLE 23: TRANSPORTATION|Part 7: RAILROADS|Chapter 617: RAILROAD CROSSINGS|23 §7218. Bridges erected by municipalities maintained

 §7218. Bridges erected by municipalities maintained Bridges erected by any municipality, over which any railroad passes, shall be constructed and maintained in a manner and condition as to safety as the Department of Transportation may determine. The department may require the officers of the railroad company and of the municipality to attend a hearing in the matter, after notice of the hearing to all parties in interest as the department deems proper. The department shall determine at the hearing the repairs, renewals or strengthening of parts, or if necessary the manner of rebuilding the bridge required to make the bridge safe for the uses to which it is put. The department shall determine who shall bear the expenses of the repairs, renewals, strengthening or rebuilding, or it may apportion the expense between the railroad company and the city or town, as the case may be, in a manner as deemed by the department to be just and fair and shall make its report.   [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]SECTION HISTORY PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).