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5 V.S.A. § 3647
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3647. Allowing animal to be at large in roadway; damages; penalty

§ 3647. Allowing animal to be at large in roadway; damages; penalty|When a horse or other beast is found going at large within the limits of a railroad after the same is opened for use, the person through whose fault or negligence such horse or other beast is so at large shall forfeit not more than $20.00 for every horse or other beast so found going at large, and shall be liable for the damages thereby sustained by any person, such forfeiture and damages to be recovered in an action on this statute.
5 V.S.A. § 3648
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3648. Complaint regarding fences, guards, crossings, watercourses

§ 3648. Complaint regarding fences, guards, crossings, watercourses|A person through whose land a railroad passes, after such road is in operation, and after 10 days' notice by registered or certified letter addressed to the principal office of such railroad, may make complaint in writing to the Transportation Board that he or she is aggrieved by the neglect or default of a railroad corporation in constructing or maintaining fences, cattle guards, or farm crossings which the corporation is bound to construct or maintain, or by its stopping, impeding, or altering a watercourse, or by its making or stopping a ditch. The Board shall give reasonable notice to the petitioner and to the railroad corporation and to any other parties having an interest in the subject matter of the complaint, of the time and place of hearing thereon, and such notice shall be given by registered or certified mail or by personal delivery. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 61.)
5 V.S.A. § 3649
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3649. Order of Board

§ 3649. Order of Board|After hearing, the Board may make a written order requiring the corporation to construct or maintain in good repair such fence, cattle guard, or farm crossing, or to make or alter such watercourse or ditch, or to remove such impediment to the same, within such time as it may fix. Such corporation shall not be required to open a ditch while the ground is frozen, nor to alter the natural course of or do any act in regard to a watercourse which it is not legally bound to do, nor to comply with such order until ten days after being served with a copy thereof. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961.)
5 V.S.A. § 3650
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3650. Penalty

§ 3650. Penalty|Unless the Board has extended the time for cause shown, a railroad corporation failing to comply with such order for more than 20 days after the time fixed therefor by the Board, shall be fined not more than $25.00 for each day's failure. Such corporation shall be further liable to the party aggrieved for the damages he or she sustains in consequence of such failure. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961.)
5 V.S.A. § 3670
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3670. Clearance standards; variance

§ 3670. Clearance standards; variance|(a) No person shall construct, alter, or permit construction or alteration of a railroad track, railroad bridge, or structure over or adjacent to any railroad track unless the clearances provided equal or exceed the minimum standards set forth in the American Railway Engineering Association's Manual for Railway Engineering, as in effect at the time work begins.(b) Subject to the approval of the Transportation Board, a variance from the standards established by this section may be established by written agreement of the Agency of Transportation, all involved railroad companies and any affected municipality.(c) If the parties are unable to agree on a variance request, the Transportation Board, after notice and hearing, may grant a variance from the standards established by this section if the Board determines that:  (1) the Agency of Transportation, all involved railroad companies, and any affected municipality have had an opportunity to review and comment on the variance request; (2) granting the variance will not significantly impair the safe, efficient, continuous movement of freight, passengers, and railroad equipment on the State's railroad system or the safe, efficient performance of railroad maintenance operations; and (3) the costs and impacts associated with meeting the clearance standards established by this section would exceed any public benefits reasonably likely to flow from adhering to such standards.   (d) Notwithstanding this section, tracks, bridges, and structures lawfully in existence or already under construction before July 1, 1990 may continue to be used and repaired, provided that clearances are not further reduced. (Added 1989, No. 246 (Adj. Sess.), § 27; amended 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 62; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 13.)
5 V.S.A. § 3671
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3671. Destruction of weeds and thistles

§ 3671. Destruction of weeds and thistles|A person or corporation operating a railroad in this State shall cause all thistles and noxious weeds growing within the surveyed boundaries of such railroad to be cut and destroyed before August 1 in each year. (Amended 1969, No. 97, § 1.)
5 V.S.A. § 3673
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3673. Vegetation control

§ 3673. Vegetation control|A railroad shall take reasonable measures to control vegetation that is both on railroad property and on or immediately adjacent to the roadbed, so that the vegetation does not obstruct a highway user's view of traffic control devices at a grade crossing or of a train approaching the crossing. (Amended 1969, No. 97, § 4; 2017, No. 158 (Adj. Sess.), § 14.)
5 V.S.A. § 3674
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3674. Enforcement

§ 3674. Enforcement|If a railroad fails to control vegetation as required by section 3671 or 3673 of this title within 30 days after written notice is given by the selectboard of the town in which the vegetation is located or by the Agency in the case of violations involving a State highway grade crossing, the Transportation Board, upon application by the town or the Agency and after notice and hearing, may order the railroad to perform the work. Any such order shall specify a date by which the work must be completed. If the railroad fails to comply with the Board's order, the Board may impose a civil penalty of $100.00 against the railroad for each day that the railroad fails to comply with the Board's order. (Amended 1969, No. 97, § 3; 2017, No. 158 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)
5 V.S.A. § 3694
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3694. Rebate on fare paid on train; penalty

§ 3694. Rebate on fare paid on train; penalty|A railroad corporation and its agents or employees shall not demand or receive for a single ticket bought or fare paid, on a train or elsewhere than at its ticket office, more than ten cents in excess of the tariff rate charged at its ticket office. When such excess is received, the conductor or other person receiving it shall give to the passenger a certificate which shall entitle him or her to receive the excess so paid at any station of the corporation in exchange for such certificate, if presented for redemption at any time within 30 days from the day of issue. A person or corporation that violates a provision of this section shall be fined not more than $100.00 nor less than $10.00 for each offense.
5 V.S.A. § 3695
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3695. Equal charges and facilities; long and short haul

§ 3695. Equal charges and facilities; long and short haul|A railroad corporation whose railroad is located in the State shall not charge a larger sum for the transportation of freight, merchandise, or passengers thereon for a less distance, to or from a way station on such road, than is charged for a greater distance. In case of a violation of this provision, the excess so charged may be recovered from such corporation, by the party aggrieved, in an action on this statute, with costs.
5 V.S.A. § 3696
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3696. Special rates; fairs and schools

§ 3696. Special rates; fairs and schools|Railroad companies may transport at special and reduced rates, to and from a public agricultural exhibition or fair, animals or other property to be exhibited there publicly, and may transport at special and reduced rates, to and from schools and other institutions of learning in this State, students there attending, provided that such rates shall be available to all who exhibit at such exhibitions or fairs or attend such schools or other institutions of learning.
5 V.S.A. § 3697
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3697. Equal and reasonable facilities

§ 3697. Equal and reasonable facilities|A person or corporation operating a railroad shall give to all persons reasonable and equal terms, benefits, facilities, and accommodations for the transportation of themselves, their agents and servants, and of merchandise and other property, upon such railroad, and for the use of the depots, buildings, and grounds thereof, and, at any point where such railroad connects with another railroad, reasonable and equal facilities of interchange.
5 V.S.A. § 3698
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3698. Connecting roads not to charge more for short than long distance; exception

§ 3698. Connecting roads not to charge more for short than long distance; exception|Two or more corporations whose roads connect shall not charge or receive for the transportation of freight to any station on the road of either of them a greater sum than is, at the time, charged or received for the transportation of the like class and quantity of freight from the same original point of departure to a station at a greater distance on the road of either in the same direction. This section shall not be construed as affecting the right of any railroad corporation to establish such rates on freights shipped over its line in carload lots from points outside the State to points beyond the State as may seem for its best interests, and the sum charged or received for the transportation of freight shall include all terminal charges.
5 V.S.A. § 3699
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3699. Penalty; excursion tickets

§ 3699. Penalty; excursion tickets|A person or corporation violating a provision of sections 3697 and 3698 of this title shall be liable to the party aggrieved for all damages sustained by reason of such violation, in an action on this statute. However, such sections shall not be so construed as to prevent the issuing of excursion, mileage, and commutation tickets.
5 V.S.A. § 3700
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3700. Installation of telephone in stations

§ 3700. Installation of telephone in stations|Each railroad corporation doing business in this State shall grant to every person, firm, joint stock company, or corporation operating a public telephone line in the State and having at least 500 telephone connections, equal and reasonable terms, arrangements, and facilities for the installation of telephone instruments on the lines, or connected with the telephone system of such person, firm, joint stock company, or corporation, in all depots, station houses, or offices of such railroad corporation in the State. A railroad corporation that violates the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than $1,000.00 and shall be further liable in an action on this statute, for damages to the party injured thereby.
5 V.S.A. § 3721
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3721. Badges

§ 3721. Badges|A conductor, baggage master, engineer, brakeman, or other servant of a railroad corporation employed in a passenger train or at stations for passengers shall wear upon his or her hat or cap a badge, which shall indicate his or her office, and the initial letters of the name of the corporation by which he or she is employed. An officer without such badge shall not demand or be entitled to receive from any passenger any fare, toll, or ticket; or interfere with a passenger or his or her baggage or property; or exercise any of the powers of his or her office.
5 V.S.A. § 3722
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3722. Baggage checks

§ 3722. Baggage checks|Baggage masters and station agents on railroads shall give checks when requested so to do, to the owners of baggage who hold tickets, when delivered to them for the transportation from station to station. Such checks shall be returned to the baggage master or station agent when he or she delivers the baggage to the owner. A person or corporation operating a railroad whose officers or employees do not comply with the requirements of this section shall be fined $10.00, and shall also be liable for damages which accrue in consequence thereof.
5 V.S.A. § 3723
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3723. Ejectment of passenger from train

§ 3723. Ejectment of passenger from train|When a passenger in a train refuses to pay his or her fare or toll or to comply with the reasonable regulations of the corporation for the government of passengers, or is disorderly or intoxicated, the conductor of the train and the employees of the corporation may put him or her out of the cars at the nearest regular station on such railroad, causing the train to be stopped for that purpose. Conductors, agents, employees, or other officials of a railroad corporation shall not forcibly eject or cause to be ejected or put out of a train any passenger for nonpayment of fare or for being disorderly or intoxicated, except at a regular station on such railroad.
5 V.S.A. § 3724
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3724. Liability for damages

§ 3724. Liability for damages|A person or corporation running trains on any railroad in this State and the conductors, agents, employees, or other officers of such railroad shall be responsible for all injury and damage to persons or property arising by reason of noncompliance with or a violation of the requirements of section 3723 of this title, to be recovered in an action on this statute.
5 V.S.A. § 3725
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3725. Refusal to pay fare; penalty

§ 3725. Refusal to pay fare; penalty|A person entering as a passenger upon a railroad train and refusing to pay his fare shall be fined not more than $20.00 nor less than $2.00.
5 V.S.A. § 3726
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3726. Running out of time; penalty

§ 3726. Running out of time; penalty|A conductor, engineer, or other person having the control of an engine or train of cars, who runs such engine or train of cars or allows the same to be run upon a section of railroad, at the time designated for any other engine or train of cars to run upon such section in an opposite direction, without notice and authorization from the conductor, engineer, train dispatcher, or other person having control of the movement of the last mentioned engine or train of cars shall be fined not more than $1,000.00 nor less than $100.00.
5 V.S.A. § 3727
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3727. Only company's engines to be run on road; penalty

§ 3727. Only company's engines to be run on road; penalty|A locomotive, engine, or other power shall not run upon a railroad, except such as belong to and are controlled by the person or corporation owning and managing the road, unless by the consent of such person or corporation. An engineer or other person violating the provisions of this section shall be liable to the person or corporation for the damages thereby sustained, and shall be fined not more than $500.00. If a collision of trains results from the violation of this section, whereby a person is killed, such engineer or other person shall be guilty of manslaughter. This section shall not be enforced when it conflicts with the charter of a railroad corporation organized under the laws of this State.
5 V.S.A. § 3728
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3728. Employ of person using alcohol; penalty; damages

§ 3728. Employ of person using alcohol; penalty; damages|When a railroad corporation employs or retains in its service a conductor, engineer, brakeman, switchman, semaphore operator or other signalman, train dispatcher, or telegraph operator who receives train orders, who uses alcohol as a beverage, such fact being known to the president, superintendent, or any of the directors of such road, such corporation shall be fined not more than $3,000.00 nor less than $300.00. Such corporation shall also be liable for the damages which a person sustains by the employment or retention of such employee. (Amended 2017, No. 83, § 161(1).)
5 V.S.A. § 3729
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3729. Use of alcohol by employee; penalty

§ 3729. Use of alcohol by employee; penalty|A person named in section 3728 of this title who, while in control of the movement of an engine, train, electric car, or semaphore, or while engaged in the discharge of any duty relating to his or her employment, is intoxicated, shall be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than $500.00, or both. (Amended 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), § 23; 2017, No. 83, § 161(1).)
5 V.S.A. § 3730
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3730. Negligence of employee; penalty

§ 3730. Negligence of employee; penalty|An engineer, fireman, or other agent of a railroad who is guilty of negligence or carelessness, whereby an injury is done to a person or corporation, shall be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than $1,000.00, or both. This section shall not exempt a person or corporation from an action for damages. (Amended 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), § 23.)
5 V.S.A. § 3731
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3731. Property held for injuries on road

§ 3731. Property held for injuries on road|When the property or person of another is injured through the default of a person or corporation owning or operating a railroad, or the agents or employees thereof, the cars, engines, and other property which, at the time of such injury, are subject to use in the running and management of such road, and which have, at any time, been owned by such person or corporation, shall be held to be the property of the person or corporation for the purpose of furnishing indemnity for such injury, and may be attached and levied upon as such at the action of the party injured.
5 V.S.A. § 3732
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3732. Damages for fire communicated by engine

§ 3732. Damages for fire communicated by engine|A person or corporation owning or operating a railroad shall be responsible in damages for injury to a building or other property caused by fire communicated by a locomotive engine on such road, unless due caution and diligence are used and suitable expedients employed to prevent such injury. The person or corporation shall have an insurable interest in the property along its route, and may procure insurance thereon.
5 V.S.A. § 3755
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3755. Commissions

§ 3755. Commissions|Upon petition of a person or corporation owning or operating a railroad, the Commissioner of Public Safety may, subject to the provisions of section 3757 of this subchapter, commission any employees of the railroad as the person or corporation designates to act as police officers in and upon the premises and equipment owned, managed, or used by a railroad, shall issue commissions to the employees so commissioned, and shall have the authority to rescind such commissions. (Added 1981, No. 104, § 1; amended 2013, No. 141 (Adj. Sess.), § 14, eff. July 1, 2015.)
5 V.S.A. § 3756
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3756. Oath of office

§ 3756. Oath of office|Each police officer so commissioned shall, before entering upon the duties of his or her office, take an oath of office administered by the Commissioner of Public Safety or his or her designee. (Added 1981, No. 104, § 1.)
5 V.S.A. § 3757
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3757. Qualifications

§ 3757. Qualifications|Persons commissioned pursuant to section 3755 of this subchapter shall be subject to minimum training standards established by rule of the Vermont Criminal Justice Council pursuant to 20 V.S.A. chapter 151. (Added 1981, No. 104, § 1; amended 2013, No. 141 (Adj. Sess.), § 14, eff. July 1, 2015.)
5 V.S.A. § 3758
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3758. Powers

§ 3758. Powers|Railroad police commissioned pursuant to this subchapter shall have the authority to act as police in and upon the premises and equipment owned, managed, or used by a railroad, and in all cases in which the rights of the employing or another railroad are involved, to exercise within this State all the powers of a law enforcement officer, including the powers of arrest and the carrying of firearms. (Added 1981, No. 104, § 1.)
5 V.S.A. § 3759
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 5 - Aeronautics and Surface Transportation|Chapter 68 - Construction and Operation of the Road|§ 3759. Arrest; place of arraignment and trial

§ 3759. Arrest; place of arraignment and trial|When a criminal offense occurs on a moving train, arraignment and trial of any suspected offender shall take place in the county or territorial unit in which the offense occurred. When arrest and continued custody by railroad police are necessary and allowed by the Vermont Rules of Criminal Procedure, railroad police may detain a person arrested on a moving train until the next regular stop for the train on which they are traveling. The person shall then be removed from the train and delivered to the appropriate authorities. (Added 1981, No. 104, § 1.)