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Ohio Rev Code § 4951.45 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.45 | Electric Railways or Interurban Railroads Operating Cars Along Third Rail Required to Maintain Fences.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Any company or person having the control or management of an electric or street railway or interurban railroad which operates its cars by electricity conducted through or along a third rail shall construct, or cause to be constructed, and maintain in good repair on each side of its right of way through which such third rail extends, a fence sufficient to turn stock. Such company or person shall cause to be maintained at every point where any public road, street, lane, or highway crosses such railway or railroad, safe and sufficient crossings, and on each side of such crossings cattleguards sufficient to prevent domestic animals from going thereupon. Such company or person is liable for all damages sustained in person or property in any manner by reason of any neglect or carelessness in the construction or maintenance of any such fence, crossing, or cattleguard, whether such damage is sustained from the contact of said domestic animals with said cars or from contact with, or by reason of, electricity passing through or along such third rail.Sections 4951.45 to 4951.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not require the building and maintenance of such fence between the right of way of such electric or street railway or interurban railroad, and the right of way of any railroad or electric railway where said right of ways are parallel and abut upon each other, and such railroad or electric railway maintains a fence on the opposite side of its right of way.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.46 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.46 | Abutting Owner May Construct and Maintain Fence.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If any company or person neglects or refuses to construct and maintain a fence as provided in section 4951.45 of the Revised Code, the owner of any land abutting on the line of the right of way of such person or company may construct the fence, so far as his lands abut on the right of way. When such owner has completed the fence, he may present for payment, to the ticket agent of the company at the station nearest the track so fenced, an itemized statement of the expenses of such construction. If such person or company neglects or refuses for thirty days to pay such account, such landowner may recover the reasonable cost of such fence from the owner of the railroad or railway in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.47 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.47 | Injury to Domestic Animal Prima-Facie Evidence.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If any domestic animal receives any injury or is killed upon the right of way of an electric or street railway or interurban railroad, either by coming in contact with a moving car, or by reason of the electricity contained in or passing through a third rail of such railroad or railway, such injury or death is prima-facie evidence that the person or company operating said railroad or railway has failed to comply with the requirements of sections 4951.45 to 4951.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.48 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.48 | Watchmen.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When street railways are operated by electricity, cable, compressed air, or other motive power in a municipal corporation, the legislative authority of such municipal corporation, by ordinance, may require the owners or operators of such railways to place watchmen at street crossings, intersections, or corners which such legislative authority deems dangerous. The legislative authority may provide for the enforcement of such ordinances by penalties in the way of fine or imprisonment, or both, to be imposed upon the owner, officer, or operator of such railways, or by a forfeiture of not exceeding one hundred dollars per day, which may be recovered by such municipal corporation in a civil suit against the owners or operators of any such railway failing to place such watchmen as are required.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.49 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.49 | Repairs at Crossings - Stopping of Cars at Crossings.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the tracks of two street railways cross each other or in any way connect at a common grade, the crossings shall be made and kept in repair at the joint expense of the companies owning the tracks. All cars used on such railways must come to a full stop, not nearer than ten feet nor further than fifty feet from the crossing, and not cross until the way is clear. When two or more cars approach the crossing at the same time the cars on the railway first built shall have precedence.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.50 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.50 | Full Stop When Approaching Railroad Crossing.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the tracks of a street railway cross the tracks of a railroad at grade, the company operating the line of streetcars shall cause its cars to stop not nearer than ten nor farther than fifty feet from the crossing, and before they start to cross the railroad tracks. Such company shall cause a person in its employ to go ahead of the cars and see that the way is clear for the passage of such cars and free from danger. Such street railway cars shall not proceed to cross until signaled to do so by such person so employed, or the way is clear for their passage over the tracks. When the tracks of a street railway or interurban railroad cross the tracks of an industrial railroad or a switch track or a spur track of a railroad over which passenger cars or trains are not operated, the public utilities commission may, upon application of the company owning or operating such street railway or interurban railroad, and upon notice to the company owning or operating such industrial railroad, switch track, or spur track of the hearing of such application, permit such street railway or interurban railroad to operate its cars over and across such industrial railroad, switch track, or spur track without first causing its cars to stop or an employee to go ahead of them, and may prescribe such duties upon the company owning or operating such industrial railroad, switch track, or spur track for the protection of the public as is just and reasonable under the circumstances.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.51 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.51 | Failure to Stop - Forfeiture.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Every person in charge of a streetcar who willfully fails to comply with sections 4951.49 and 4951.50 of the Revised Code or to bring the car he has in charge to a stop, or before the way is clear, or he is signaled so to do, causes them to cross the railroad tracks, is personally liable to a person injured by reason of such failure to a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil action at the suit of the state, in the court of common pleas of a county in which such crossing or connection is. The company in whose employ such person is, as well as the person himself, is liable in damages to any person so injured in person or property.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.52 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.52 | Air Brakes Required on Suburban and Interurban Cars.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No company or person owning or controlling any suburban or interurban railroad or street railway shall operate, use, or run, or permit to be run, used, or operated, for carrying passengers or freight on such suburban or interurban railroad or street railway, any car propelled by electricity, or any car or train of cars drawn by any car propelled by electricity, not equipped, in addition to the hand brake in such car or train, with an air or electric power brake so that the same can be operated and controlled by the motorman in charge of and operating such car or train.The public utilities commission shall enforce this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.53 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.53 | Center Aisle Required in Street Railway or Interurban Cars.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No street railway or interurban railroad company in this state, or its president, general manager, general superintendent, or other officer in charge of operation, shall permit or cause to be operated in this state any car for the carriage of passengers, or upon which passengers are carried, which does not have, parallel with the tracks upon which such car is being operated, a center aisle running the length of the car and suitable for quick and easy passage to and fro on the part of the employees of such company and the traveling public.Each day's violation of this section constitutes a separate offense.A violation of this section is a violation by the president, general manager, general superintendent, or other officer in charge of operation of the street railway or interurban railroad company.The prosecuting attorneys of the various counties shall prosecute violations of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.54 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.54 | Free Transportation of Police and Firemen.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Upon the granting of franchises to traction companies or motor or bus transportation companies throughout this state for the use of streets, roads, and highways for the transportation of passengers, it must be provided, as one of the considerations for such use of the public highways, that such traction companies or motor or bus transportation companies shall carry free as passengers on all regular cars and busses, policemen and firemen when on duty and in uniform.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.55 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.55 | Operation of Cars Without Water Closet and Drinking Water.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Every person or company engaged in the operating of interurban cars for a greater distance than ten miles between the corporate limits of municipal corporations shall place and maintain within such cars, so run or operated, a water closet or dry hopper closet, properly and sanitarily constructed, and suitable drinking water for the use of the passengers of such cars. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.56 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.56 | Screen for Protection of Motormen and Conductors - Temperatures.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No officer, agent, or employee in authority of a corporation, individual, or association shall direct or permit to be operated an electric car other than a trail car, whether such electric car is a passenger car, a freight car, a sweeper, or other car, unprovided at the forward end with a screen of glass or other material sufficient to completely protect from dust, wind, and storm the motorman or other person stationed there for guiding or operating such car, or fail to maintain during the entire period succeeding the thirty-first day of October of each year and ending on each succeeding fifteenth day of April, within any electric car so being operated, whether a passenger car, a trail car, or other car except in freight cars and, except in trail cars within the space behind any such screen, a temperature at all times of not less than sixty degrees Fahrenheit. Each day during which at any time such a car is operated while so unprovided or while such temperature is not so maintained is a separate offense. The prosecuting attorneys of the various counties of this state shall enforce this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4951.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4951 | Street Railways and Interurban Railroads|Section 4951.99 | Penalty.

Effective: July 1, 1996|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly|(A) Whoever violates section 4951.53 of the Revised Code shall be fined fifty dollars and imprisoned for not less than ten nor more than thirty days.(B) Whoever violates section 4951.56 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 4953.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4953 | Transportation Terminal Companies|Section 4953.01 | Powers of Union Terminal Companies.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The presidents of two or more railroad companies running railroads to the same municipal corporation or township, by the consent and under the direction of their respective boards of directors, or any number of persons, not less than five, a majority of whom are residents of this state, may file articles of incorporation in the office of the secretary of state for the purposes of purchasing or leasing grounds, and locating, constructing, maintaining, and operating a common or union station house, passenger or freight depot, or other structures and facilities for the interchange, receipt, and delivery of freight transported or to be transported over a route which includes both rail and water, and yard, terminal, and connecting tracks for the use of railroads or both railroads and electric railways.Such company may acquire such grounds, structures, and facilities, and such yard, terminal, and connecting tracks, by lease or otherwise. Such company may also acquire, by lease, purchase, or otherwise, and may construct, maintain, and operate in connection with its terminals or station, a terminal railroad with two or more tracks connecting the railroads of one or more companies. Such company may construct and maintain warehouses, stores, office buildings, hotels, and other structures for the accommodation of the public and may operate or lease said grounds, structures, and facilities, or any part of them.
Ohio Rev Code § 4953.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4953 | Transportation Terminal Companies|Section 4953.02 | Articles of Incorporation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The articles of incorporation of a union terminal company, referred to by section 4953.01 of the Revised Code, shall specify:(A) The name assumed by such company;(B) When two or more of the incorporators are presidents of railroad companies, the names of such companies;(C) The municipal corporation or township in which depot, terminals, connection tracks, structures, and facilities to be operated in connection with such company are to be constructed;(D) The amount of capital stock necessary to obtain a site and to construct, maintain, and operate such depot, terminals, tracks, and other structures.
Ohio Rev Code § 4953.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4953 | Transportation Terminal Companies|Section 4953.03 | Recording - Privileges.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The articles of incorporation referred to by section 4953.02 of the Revised Code shall be signed by the presidents in behalf of the railroad companies, with the corporate seals of the companies annexed to such articles, or by any number of persons, not less than five, a majority of whom are residents of this state, and shall be forwarded to the secretary of state, who shall record and preserve them in his office. A copy of such articles certified by the secretary of state, is evidence of the existence of such company. After such recording, the company may contract, sue and be sued, locate and acquire rights of way, grounds, and terminals, and appropriate so much land as it deems necessary for its depot, tracks, terminals, structures, and facilities, and shall have all the powers given to railroads by the laws of this state, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, and operating its depot, tracks, terminals, structures, and facilities. Such company is not subject to sections 4953.13 to 4953.16, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4953.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4953 | Transportation Terminal Companies|Section 4953.04 | Restrictions for Union Terminal Company Service.

Effective: June 11, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly|No union terminal company or corporation shall engage in the business of a for-hire motor carrier, as defined in 4921.01 of the Revised Code, over any public highway in this state, without obtaining authority from the public utilities commission, and complying with all laws governing every corporation or company when engaged or proposing to engage in the business of a for-hire motor carrier.
Ohio Rev Code § 4953.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4953 | Transportation Terminal Companies|Section 4953.05 | General Corporation Laws Apply.

Effective: October 11, 1955|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 70 - 101st General Assembly|When a union terminal company is incorporated by individuals as provided in sections 4953.01 to 4953.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, its organization shall be in the manner provided by sections 1701.01 to 1701.98, inclusive, of the Revised Code.The capital stock of such company may be divided into common and preferred stock in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of corporations organized under such sections.
Ohio Rev Code § 4953.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4953 | Transportation Terminal Companies|Section 4953.06 | Board of Directors.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The president of each railroad company which participates in the incorporation of a union terminal company as provided in section 4953.01 to 4953.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall, ex officio, be a director in the union terminal company, unless the board of directors of any such railroad company appoints some other person as director. When such union terminal company is organized by not less than five persons, its board of directors shall be elected by its stockholders.All questions which affect the pecuniary liabilities and expenditures, the election of officers, and the appointment of agents and employees, shall be regulated by the bylaws, rules, and regulations of such companies. Such bylaws, rules, and regulations shall not be inconsistent with the charter of the company and the general laws of the state.The board of directors of the union terminal company shall keep a record of its proceedings which record shall be open to the inspection of the stockholders.
Ohio Rev Code § 4953.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4953 | Transportation Terminal Companies|Section 4953.07 | Bylaws, Rules, and Regulations.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The board of directors of a union terminal company may pass bylaws, rules, and regulations for its government, not inconsistent with the charters of the railroad companies and for the regulation of the depot and depot grounds and the business thereof. It shall appoint such officers and agents as are necessary. It shall adopt, and post conspicuously in the passenger depot, rules and regulations to control the conduct of all runners, solicitors, hackmen, and drivers of vehicles within the depot and depot grounds.
Ohio Rev Code § 4953.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4953 | Transportation Terminal Companies|Section 4953.09 | Power to Borrow Money and Mortgage Property.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Any union terminal company may borrow money for the purpose of carrying out the powers conferred by sections 4953.01 to 4953.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, without reference to the amount of stock of such company, and may also issue coupon, registered, or other bonds payable to bearer, bearing interest not exceeding the highest contract rate of interest allowable in this state at the time, payable semiannually. Such company may mortgage its franchises, property, and revenues of every kind owned at the time such money is borrowed or such bonds are issued or subsequently acquire, to secure the payment of such loan, bonds, and interest. The stock holders of such company may jointly and severally guarantee the payment of any notes or bonds the company lawfully issues, and the company may dispose of such notes or bonds at such rate of premium or discount as the board of directors deems best for the interests of the company. It is sufficient to record any mortgage securing such loan or bonds in the real estate records of the county where the depot, terminal, yards, or tracks of the company are constructed.
Ohio Rev Code § 4953.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4953 | Transportation Terminal Companies|Section 4953.10 | Liability of Company.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The company controlling and operating the property of a union terminal company is liable to the public and to persons who contract with such union terminal company, upon all contracts made by it, for all damages caused by it, and for all damages, costs, and expenses which arise from the fault or neglect of its officers and employees.