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Ohio Rev Code § 5589.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways|Section 5589.21 | Obstruction of Roads by Railroads.

Effective: October 27, 2000|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 207 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) No railroad company shall obstruct, or permit or cause to be obstructed a public street, road, or highway, by permitting a railroad car, locomotive, or other obstruction to remain upon or across it for longer than five minutes, to the hindrance or inconvenience of travelers or a person passing along or upon such street, road, or highway.(B) At the end of each five minute period of obstruction of a public street, road, or highway, each railroad company shall cause such railroad car, locomotive, or other obstruction to be removed for sufficient time, not less than three minutes, to allow the passage of persons and vehicles waiting to cross.(C) This section does not apply to obstruction of a public street, road, or highway by a continuously moving through train or caused by circumstances wholly beyond the control of the railroad company, but does apply to other obstructions, including without limitation those caused by stopped trains and trains engaged in switching, loading, or unloading operations.(D) If a railroad car, locomotive, or other obstruction is obstructing a public street, road, or highway in violation of division (A) of this section and the violation occurs in the unincorporated area of one or more counties, or in one or more municipal corporations, the officers and employees of each affected county or municipal corporation may charge the railroad company with only one violation of the law arising from the same facts and circumstances and the same act.(E) Upon the filing of an affidavit or complaint for violation of division (A) of this section, summons shall be issued to the railroad company pursuant to division (B) of section 2935.10 of the Revised Code, which summons shall be served on the regular ticket or freight agent of the company in the county where the offense occurred.
Ohio Rev Code § 5589.211 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways|Section 5589.211 | Abandoned Locomotive Obstructing Street or Road.

Effective: October 27, 2000|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 207 - 123rd General Assembly|No railroad company shall obstruct, or permit or cause to be obstructed, a public street, road, or highway, by permitting any part of a train whose crew has abandoned the locomotive to remain across it for longer than five minutes to the hindrance or inconvenience of travelers or a person passing along or upon the street, road, or highway, unless the safety of the train crew requires them to abandon the locomotive.Upon the filing of an affidavit or complaint for violation of this section, summons shall be issued to the railroad company pursuant to division (B) of section 2935.10 of the Revised Code, which summons shall be served on the regular ticket or freight agent of the company in the county where the offense occurred.
Ohio Rev Code § 5589.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways|Section 5589.22 | Damages.

Effective: January 9, 1961|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly|A corporation or person shall be liable for all damages arising to a person from an obstruction or injury to a road or highway as provided by section 5589.21 of the Revised Code, which damage shall be recovered by an action at the suit of the board of township trustees of the township in which the offense is committed, or of any person suing therefor before a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court having jurisdiction where the offense is committed, or by indictment in the court of common pleas in the proper county. Each twenty-four hours the person or corporation, after being notified, permits such obstruction to remain, shall be an additional offense against such section.
Ohio Rev Code § 5589.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways|Section 5589.23 | Company Liable for Fines Against Employees.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A railroad company or other corporation, the servant, agent, or employee of which, in any manner, obstructs a public road or highway, shall pay all penalties which may be assessed against such servant, agent, or employee for obstructing it. The penalties may be enforced by execution issued against such corporation on the judgment rendered against the servant, agent, or employee.
Ohio Rev Code § 5589.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways|Section 5589.24 | Fines Paid to Railroad Grade Crossing Improvement Funds.

Effective: October 27, 2000|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 207 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) All fines collected for a violation of division (A) of section 5589.21 or 5589.211 of the Revised Code shall be paid as follows:(1) To the railroad grade crossing improvement fund of the county if the violation occurred in an unincorporated area of the county;(2) To the railroad grade crossing improvement fund of the municipal corporation in which the violation occurred if the violation occurred in a municipal corporation.(B) The board of county commissioners of each county and the legislative authority of each municipal corporation shall establish a railroad grade crossing improvement fund. The fund shall consist of fines paid to the county or municipal corporation under division (A) of this section and any other moneys allocated to the fund by the county or municipal corporation. Except as otherwise provided in this division, a county or municipal corporation shall use its railroad grade crossing improvement fund to pay any part of the cost assigned by the public utilities commission to the county or municipal corporation under section 4907.471 of the Revised Code. The county or municipal corporation also may use its railroad grade crossing improvement fund for other improvements to railroad grade crossings, including signs, signals, gates, or other protective devices, as the board of county commissioners or legislative authority of a municipal corporation determines to be appropriate.If, during any fiscal year, the fines a county collects for violations of division (A) of section 5589.21 and section 5589.211 of the Revised Code equal three thousand dollars or less, during the subsequent fiscal year the county may use that amount of money in its railroad grade crossing improvement fund for any purpose that the board of county commissioners determines to be appropriate.If, during any fiscal year, the fines a county collects for violations of division (A) of section 5589.21 and section 5589.211 of the Revised Code exceed three thousand dollars, during the subsequent two fiscal years the county shall use all the money in its railroad grade crossing improvement fund only for those purposes described in this division. In such a case, the amount of money the county collects for violations of division (A) of section 5589.21 and section 5589.211 of the Revised Code during the fiscal year immediately following the second of those two fiscal years shall determine the disposition under this division of the money the county collects during that fiscal year.
Ohio Rev Code § 5589.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways|Section 5589.31 | Construction of Walk or Ditch Across Highway.

Effective: September 28, 1973|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly|No person, firm, or corporation shall construct a walk or dig a ditch across a public highway outside any municipal corporation without the consent of the director of transportation in the case of an intercounty or a state highway, county engineer in the case of a county road, or board of township trustees in the case of a township road.
Ohio Rev Code § 5589.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways|Section 5589.32 | Erection of Advertising Signs Resembling Those Required of Railroad Companies.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person, firm, or corporation shall erect, display, or maintain an advertising or other sign on, along, or near any public highway, in any county of this state, which resembles the highway crossing signs which steam and interurban railroads have erected, in compliance with section 4955.33 of the Revised Code, at the crossings of public roads and railroads.The public utilities commission shall enforce this section, prosecute any violations thereof, and order the removal of any such prohibited sign.The attorney general and the prosecuting attorney of any county shall carry into effect the orders of the commission made under this section and shall prosecute any violations of such orders.Each day that any violation of this section continues constitutes a separate offense. The erection, display, or maintenance of each advertising or other sign referred to in this section, except as provided in section 4955.33 of the Revised Code, constitutes a separate offense.
Ohio Rev Code § 5589.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways|Section 5589.33 | Advertising Within the Right-of-Way of Public Highway.

Effective: September 28, 1973|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly|Except as provided in this section and in section 5515.04 of the Revised Code, no person shall place within the limits of the right-of-way or affix any sign, poster, or advertisement to any tree or utility pole within the right-of-way of any public highway outside of municipal corporations. No person, organization, corporation, or group shall place within the limits of the right-of-way any object as determined by the department of transportation to obscure sight distance.Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the erection and maintaining of notices of the existence and location of public utility facilities under or upon the highway and warnings against disturbing such facilities, or of notices that emergency or other public telephones are available for users of the highway at specified locations upon or near the highway.
Ohio Rev Code § 5589.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating to Highways|Section 5589.99 | Penalty.

Effective: October 27, 2000|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 207 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) Whoever violates section 5589.01 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.(B) Whoever violates section 5589.02, 5589.03, 5589.05, 5589.06, 5589.08, 5589.081, 5589.09, 5589.11, 5589.12, 5589.32, or 5589.33 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.(C) Whoever violates section 5589.07 or 5589.10 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.(D) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5589.21 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined one thousand dollars.(E) Whoever violates section 5589.211 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined five thousand dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.01 | Definition of Joint Bridge.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|"Joint bridge" as used in sections 5591.01 to 5591.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, means a bridge constructed, used, or maintained, or to be constructed, used, or maintained for general highway traffic above, below, or at the grade of any bridge constructed or to be constructed by any railroad or union depot company, and in connection therewith.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.02 | Commissioners Must Build Certain Bridges.

Effective: June 30, 2007|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 67 - 127th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners shall construct and keep in repair all necessary bridges in municipal corporations on all county roads and improved roads that are of general and public utility, running into or through the municipal corporations, and that are not on state highways.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.03 | Joint County and Railroad Bridges.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the board of county commissioners is of the opinion that the welfare and convenience of the public will be served by the use of a bridge designed to carry the tracks of a railroad company, a union depot company, or any of said companies, and general highway traffic, the board may contract with such companies for the joint construction, use, and maintenance of such a bridge with provision for general highway traffic, in conjunction with and as a part of such railroad bridge, either at, above, or below the grade or elevation at which said railroad tracks are constructed.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.04 | Contract for Construction.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The bridge construction contract provided for by section 5591.03 of the Revised Code shall provide for the construction, use, and maintenance of that part of the joint bridge intended or to be used for general highway traffic and for sufficient pier supports to carry that part of such bridge used or intended to be used for general highway traffic, and shall be executed by the board of county commissioners, on behalf of any county, pursuant to authorization contained in the resolution determining to proceed with said joint bridge construction provided in section 5591.09 of the Revised Code, and by the president and secretary of any railroad or union depot company, on behalf of such company, pursuant to authorization of its board of directors.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.05 | Board May Establish New Highway and Change Existing Grades.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Whenever, in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, it is for the best interests, security, and convenience of the public in carrying out any contract for the construction, use, and maintenance of a joint bridge, such board may establish new highways and widen, change the location of, alter, straighten, narrow, change the grade of, or vacate a part or all of any public highway established or to be established under previous contract.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.06 | Appropriation of Property - Approaches - Damages - Vacation of Highways.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The board of county commissioners may in the making of a contract for the construction, use, and maintenance of a joint bridge, provide for approaches to such bridge for general highway traffic, over or from any other public highway adjacent to such joint bridge, and may acquire lands or property for such bridge and approaches by dedication, purchase, or appropriation in the manner provided for the dedication, purchase, or appropriation of private property for public use, and may pay the cost of construction, maintenance, and use of the bridge or of the establishment, change of location, widening, altering, narrowing, straightening, or vacation of a part or all of any public highway made necessary on account of the construction, use, and maintenance of such bridge, or to enjoy a more complete use of the same, and any damage resulting therefrom to persons or property, together with the cost of constructing said highway at its established, dedicated, changed, altered, or widened location, together with any other cost or expense necessary or incident to the carrying out of the terms of the contract.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.07 | Resolution to Modify or Alter Bridge - Exhibits.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In the event it is necessary in the construction, use, or maintenance of a joint bridge to establish, alter, narrow, change the grade, or vacate a part or all of any public highway, the board of county commissioners of a county may, by resolution, declare such necessity and its intention to make such highway modifications or alterations, and provide in the resolution the manner in which the alterations or changes are to be made, the approximate cost so far as the county is concerned, the land or other property it is necessary to appropriate, how the cost of such alterations or changes is to be apportioned between the county and railroad or union depot company, and by whom the work of construction is to be done.Prior to the passage of the resolution declaring such necessity there shall be filed with the board exhibits showing the location, elevation, and width of any highway to be established, altered, narrowed, vacated in whole or part, or grade thereof as changed, and a general plan of the joint bridge showing that portion to be used for general highway traffic, the supports, and any approaches to the bridge, together with such other information as may be required under the contract.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.08 | Notice to Be Served on Property Owners.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|Notice of the passage of the resolution provided for in section 5591.07 of the Revised Code shall be served upon the owners of property abutting upon that part of any highway to be altered, relocated, narrowed, or vacated in whole or part, or any change of grade thereof, in the manner provided as to resolutions declaring the necessity for a street improvement of a municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.09 | Resolution to Determine to Proceed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|After passage of the resolution provided for by section 5591.07 of the Revised Code the board of county commissioners shall determine whether or not it will proceed with the proposed improvement. If it is desired to proceed a resolution by the board shall be passed which must contain, in addition to the terms stated in the resolution, a determination to proceed with the construction of a joint bridge.At the time of passing the resolution, the proposed contract between the county and the railroad or union depot company, for the construction, use, and maintenance of the joint bridge, together with the plans and specifications showing its location, elevation, and approaches, with such other information as may be required under said contract, shall be prepared and on file with the board. The plans, specifications, and contract shall be approved and the execution of the contract by the officers of such county shall be authorized by the resolution determining to proceed. Such resolution shall also contain a statement of the damages claimed or likely to accrue by reason of the construction of a joint bridge and state who shall supervise the work of construction.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.10 | Contents of Resolution.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|The resolution provided for by section 5591.09 of the Revised Code shall contain a general description of the land or property required by the county for approaches to the bridge, for making alterations in any highway shown on the plan or required by the specifications or contract, or necessary to be purchased or appropriated by the county, and any land required for establishing, altering, widening, or changing the location or grade of any highway, or slope rights for any highway or approaches, required by the terms of said contract.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.11 | Dedication of Highway.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|After the resolution provided for by section 5591.09 of the Revised Code has gone into effect and the county and railroad or union depot company have executed the contract approved by the resolution providing for construction, use, and maintenance of a joint bridge, the company shall dedicated for public use a highway of such width and at such elevation as is fixed and determined in the contract. Dedication shall be by plat prepared, signed, acknowledged, and recorded in the same manner and form as that prescribed for the dedication of other public highways, and the board of county commissioners of any county may accept such dedication.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.12 | Proceedings to Be the Same as in Other County Roads.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In the establishment or making of any change in the location of any highway as shown on the plan or required by the construction contract, or any relocation or vacation of the whole or any part of such highway by the board of county commissioners, the same proceeding shall be had by it as is provided for the establishment, change of location, relocation, widening, vacation, or establishing or re-establishing a grade for a highway as in the case of county roads within the jurisdiction of such board.
Ohio Rev Code § 5591.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 55 | Roads-Highways-Bridges|Chapter 5591 | County Bridges|Section 5591.13 | Lands to Be Purchased or Appropriated.

Effective: February 21, 1967|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 107th General Assembly|The land or property required to make the alteration in a street or highway necessitated by a proposed improvement as provided in sections 5591.03 to 5591.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and as shown in the plan, specifications, and contract, or required to make any alteration in the railroad necessitated by the proposed improvement shall be purchased or appropriated by the county or the railroad in the manner as provided in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.