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Ohio Rev Code § 4955.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.20 | Highway Crossings and Sidewalks - Maintenance and Repair.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Companies operating a railroad in this state shall build and keep in repair good and sufficient crossings over or approaches to such railroad, its tracks, sidetracks, and switches, at all points where any public highway, street, lane, avenue, alley, road, or pike is intersected by such railroad, its tracks, sidetracks, or switches. Such companies shall build and keep in repair good and sufficient sidewalks on both sides of streets intersected by their railroads, the full width of the right of way owned, claimed, or occupied by them. The board of township trustees shall have power to fix, and determine the kind and extent, and the time and manner of constructing, crossings and approaches outside of municipal corporations.The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may exercise the same powers as to crossings, approaches, and sidewalks within municipal corporations as such board exercises concerning crossings and approaches outside of municipal corporations. Such crossings, approaches, and sidewalks shall be constructed, repaired, and maintained by the railroad companies as so ordered.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.201 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.201 | Abandonment of Railroad Track.

Effective: June 30, 1993|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 154 - 120th General Assembly|(A) If the interstate commerce commission approves the abandonment of a railroad track that crosses a road or highway at grade, the railroad that owned the track immediately after the approval of the abandonment shall remove the track at the crossing and fill the space previously occupied by the rails with the same material that comprises the road or highway at the crossing. Upon completion of the work, the surface of the crossing where the rails previously were located shall be the same height as the surface of the road or highway abutting the crossing. The restored portion of the road or highway shall meet the construction standards applicable to the road or highway of which the restored portion is a part.(B) No railroad shall fail to remove from a crossing the rails that comprise a track whose abandonment has been approved or fail to fill the space previously occupied by the rails as required by division (A) of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.21 | Service of Notice.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The officers having charge of a public highway, street, or alley intersected by a railroad shall serve a written notice upon the nearest station agent or section foreman having charge of that portion of the railroad where such intersection occurs that the crossing, approach, or sidewalk described in section 4955.20 of the Revised Code must be built or repaired, setting forth its kind and extent and the time and manner of constructing it, as ordered by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or board of township trustees.A railroad company so notified must comply with such notice within a period of thirty days after receiving it. On failure to do so, the board or legislative authority may cause such crossing, approach, or sidewalk to be constructed or repaired as ordered, and recover the cost of so doing with interest in a civil action against the railroad company in the name of the board or municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.22 | Failure to Construct or Repair Crossings or Sidewalks - Forfeiture.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A railroad company which neglects to comply with sections 4955.20 and 4955.21 of the Revised Code is liable to pay damage to the municipal corporation or township in which the highway is situated in the sum of thirty dollars for such neglect, and a further sum of ten dollars per day for each day such company fails to comply with the terms of such sections, to be recovered in an action brought in the name of the municipal corporation or township. The prosecuting attorney of the county shall prosecute to judgment any claim arising under such sections without charge to the municipal corporation or township.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.23 | Crossings Above Streets.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person or company owning or operating a railroad which crosses over and above a street less than seventy feet in width, in any city in this state, at an elevation above such street sufficient to permit persons to pass and repass along such street beneath the crossing, shall place, cause to be placed, or permit to be or remain in the street beneath such crossing or bridge, any pier or other stay or support for it, unless the placing or maintaining of such pier, stay, or support is authorized by the city in which the crossing is situated by ordinance, or permit such crossing or bridge to be or remain in such condition that iron, coal, other hard substance, fluid, or noisome matter can fall or drop through such crossing or bridge upon persons traveling or passing beneath it.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.24 | Construction and Maintenance of Bridge - Forfeiture.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A person or company owning or operating a railroad that fails to comply with the requirements of or violates section 4955.23 of the Revised Code, for each day during the continuance of such failure or violation, shall forfeit to such city one hundred dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the city's name against the owner or operator of such railroad, or both, as the city elects. Like recovery may be had for subsequent failures and violations.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.25 | Legislative Authority May Regulate Use of Bridge.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The legislative authority of a city may prohibit the switching of freight engines, trains, or cars, over or on a crossing or bridge referred to by section 4955.23 of the Revised Code, the sounding of locomotive steam whistles on or near such bridge, and the standing or stopping of a railroad engine over or on such crossing or bridge, and by ordinance, may constitute a violation of such prohibition an offense and provide for the punishment of any person guilty of such violation.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.26 | Crossing of Highway to Cemetery.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|All railroads constructed across an avenue or public highway leading from a city to a public cemetery of such city located within or without the limits of the city, shall be constructed so as to pass under or over such avenue or highway at an elevation or depression that will allow the unobstructed passage of all vehicles necessary for any person to use on such avenue or highway.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.27 | Private Crossing.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a person owns fifteen or more acres of land in one body through which a railroad passes, which land is so situated that he cannot use a crossing in a public street, lane, road, or other highway in going from his land on one side of the railroad to that on the other side without great inconvenience, at his request the company or person operating such railroad, at the expense of such company or person shall, within four months after such request, construct a good and sufficient private crossing across such railroad and the lands occupied by the company, between the two pieces of land to enable such landowner to pass with a loaded team and over which he may go at all times when such railroad is not being used at the crossing, or so near to it as to render passing thereat dangerous.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.28 | Expense of Private Crossing - Right of Entry.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If, for four months after the request by a landowner for that purpose, the company or person neglects to construct a good and sufficient private crossing as provided in section 4955.27 of the Revised Code, after reasonable notice to the agent of the company for receiving and shipping freight at the station on the railroad nearest to the land where it is proposed to construct such crossing by the landowner of the time when he will proceed to construct it, such landowner may enter upon the lands of the company at any point he wishes between the two pieces of his land and construct such crossing. Such company or person is liable to such landowner for all the reasonable expense of such construction, not exceeding fifty dollars, which he may recover in an action against such company or person.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.29 | Exception.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Sections 4955.27 and 4955.28 of the Revised Code do not apply to any case in which compensation for building a private crossing is considered and estimated as part of the consideration to be paid for the right of way, so far as the right to private crossing has been or may be settled or paid for. Such sections do not affect, in any manner, any contract or agreement between any railroad company or person having control or management of a railroad and the proprietor or occupants of lands adjoining, for the construction or maintenance of railroad crossings.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.30 | Freightways May Be Constructed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A person owning or operating a coal or iron-ore mine, stone quarry, rolling mill, or machine shop, who, as a means of removing the product thereof, uses or desires to use a railway, may construct one and run cars on it, over or under any railroad or public highway, the consent of the owner of the fee in the land at such crossing first being obtained. Such railway shall be so constructed that it will not impede or interfere with the running of cars or the travel upon such railroad or highway, or in any manner injure or impair either, or any switch, building, or appurtenance connected with or belonging to any railroad or highway. When such freightway is constructed over a railroad, it shall be at the height of at least eighteen and one-half feet in the clear above the rails of the railroad.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.31 | Plan Must Be Approved.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Before a person constructs a railway across a railroad as provided in section 4955.30 of the Revised Code, he shall submit the plan of construction to the public utilities commission for its approval, which at the cost of such person for traveling expenses or otherwise, must see that the structure in all respects conforms to the requirements of such section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.32 | Use of Horn or Alternative Audible Warning at Highway or Crossing.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "lite locomotive consist" means a consist of locomotives not attached to any piece of equipment or attached only to a caboose. (B) When the locomotive in the lead of a train, when a lite locomotive consist, or when an individual locomotive is approaching a public highway or a grade crossing, either of the following shall occur:(1) The engineer or person in charge of the locomotive shall sound the locomotive horn in accordance with 49 C.F.R. part 222;(2) An alternative audible warning system approved by the public utilities commission under section 4955.321 of the Revised Code shall be activated in accordance with guidelines established by the commission.(C) The establishment of an alternative audible warning system does not preclude the sounding of a locomotive horn by an engineer or other person in charge of a locomotive in an emergency situation, as determined by the sole judgment of the engineer or other person.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.321 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.321 | Alternative Audible Warning System.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|The public utilities commission may evaluate alternative systems for providing an audible warning of an approaching locomotive. The commission may approve the use of an audible warning system as an alternative to the horn sounding required under division (B)(1) of section 4955.32 of the Revised Code only if it determines that the alternative audible warning system complies with applicable federal requirements for an audible warning of an approaching train and only if train-activated warning devices also are present at any public highway or grade crossing at which the alternative audible warning system is installed. The commission shall establish guidelines for the use and operation of any alternative audible warning system it approves.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.322 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.322 | Immunity From Liability at Private Crossings.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|The sounding of a locomotive horn at a private crossing or the failure to sound a locomotive horn at a private crossing is not a basis for a civil action against the railroad company that operated the locomotive, a board of county commissioners, or any local authority, or against the employees or agents of the company, board, or authority.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.33 | Crossbuck Signs.

Effective: April 20, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 349 - 129th General Assembly|At all points where its railroad crosses a public road at a common grade, each company shall erect crossbuck signing at positions at each such crossing that are in accordance with the department of transportation manual for uniform traffic control devices, adopted under section 4511.09 of the Revised Code, to give notice of the proximity of the railroad and warn persons to be on the lookout for the locomotive. Any such signing that has been or is erected in accordance with this section may lawfully be continued in use until it is replaced. A company that neglects or refuses to comply with this section is liable in damages for all injuries that occur to persons or property from such neglect or refusal.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.34 | Failure to Erect Warning Signs.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|Every engineer or person in charge of a locomotive who fails to comply with section 4955.32 of the Revised Code is personally liable to a penalty of not less than fifty nor more than 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 the public highway or grade crossing is located. The company in whose employ such engineer or person in charge of a locomotive is, as well as the engineer or person in charge, is liable in damages to a person or company injured in person or property by such neglect or act of such engineer or person in charge.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.35 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.35 | Blocking of Frogs.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Every railroad company operating a railroad or part of a railroad within this state shall adjust, fill, or block all angles in frogs, switches, and crossings on its railroads and in its yards, divisional stations, and terminal stations where trains are made up, with sheet steel, wrought or malleable iron, or other metallic appliances, which shall be so placed and be of such design as will prevent the wedging of the feet of employees and other persons in such angles. All such appliances or devices shall be approved by the public utilities commission before installation.Whoever, owning, operating, or controlling a railroad fails to comply with this section shall forfeit twenty-five dollars for each day of such failure, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the state and paid into the state treasury.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.36 | Removal of Obstructive Vegetation at Crossings.

Effective: November 24, 1967|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 533 - 107th General Assembly|Every railroad company shall destroy or remove plants, trees, brush, or other obstructive vegetation upon its right-of-way at each intersection with a public road or highway, for a distance of six hundred feet or a reasonably safe distance from the roadway of such public road or highway as shall be determined by the public utilities commission.When any railroad company fails to destroy or remove such vegetation after ten-day written notice served on its local agent, the commission, board of county commissioners, board of township trustees, or legislative authority of a municipal corporation, in which the intersection is located, having the care of such road or highway, shall remove such plants, trees, brush, or other obstructive vegetation and shall recover the cost of removal from the responsible railroad company. If the company fails to pay the amount demanded within thirty days, after such company has been notified by certified mail at the address to which tax bills are sent, the commission, board of county commissioners, board of township trustees, or legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall certify the amount demanded to the county auditor of the county in which the work was performed to be collected as other taxes and assessments and upon collection shall be credited to the general fund of the public body causing said work to be performed.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.41 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.41 | Railroad Quiet Zones - Definitions.

Effective: November 18, 2004|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 247 - 125th General Assembly|As used in sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code:(A) "Railroad quiet zone" means a designated area including and adjacent to one or more consecutive public grade crossings that are equipped with automatic gates and lights that conform to the manual on uniform traffic control devices and for which one or more supplemental safety measures are implemented and used pursuant to sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code.(B) "Supplemental safety measure" means a supplementary safety measure, and the guidelines for the use and operation of that measure, that are prescribed in 49 C.F.R. 222.41(a) and (e) and Appendix (A), as set forth in 65 F.R. 2230 to 2270.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.43 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.43 | Railroad Quiet Zones - Notice to Railroads - Order Regarding Audible Warning Signals.

Effective: November 18, 2004|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 247 - 125th General Assembly|(A) At least ninety days prior to the date of first operation of a railroad quiet zone established pursuant to section 4955.42 of the Revised Code, the municipal corporation or township shall provide detailed, written notice of the established zone by certified mail, return receipt requested, to each railroad operating over a public grade crossing included in the zone, the highway or traffic control authority or law enforcement authority having responsibility for control of vehicular traffic at the crossings, the public utilities commission, the director of public safety, and the associate administrator for safety for the federal railroad administration.(B) For each railroad quiet zone established pursuant to section 4955.42 of the Revised Code, the commission shall issue an order expressly prohibiting any engineer or other person in charge of a locomotive from sounding any locomotive whistle, horn, bell, or other audible warning device within the distance of each public crossing in the zone, as that distance is designated in the order of the commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 4955.44 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings|Section 4955.44 | Railroad Quiet Zones - Other Laws Preempted - Emergency Exception - Suspension of Status.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|(A) On and after the date of first operation of a railroad quiet zone established pursuant to section 4955.42 of the Revised Code, divisions (B)(1) and (2) of section 4955.32 of the Revised Code do not apply with respect to the zone. (B) The establishment of a railroad quiet zone pursuant to sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code does not preclude the sounding of a locomotive whistle, horn, bell, or other audible device by an engineer or other person in charge of the locomotive to address a perceived potential for injury, death, or loss to person or property, as determined by the sole judgment of the engineer or other person.(C) The commission may suspend summarily the operation of a quiet zone established pursuant to section 4955.42 of the Revised Code if the commission, through any source, obtains sufficient, credible evidence showing that a condition at a public grade crossing located within a quiet zone has changed to such an extent that, even with the continuing existence of the supplemental safety measures at the crossing, the quiet zone no longer qualifies as such under federal law or the commission determines that public safety is otherwise compromised at the crossing. Within fifteen days following the quiet zone suspension date described in this division, the commission shall hold a hearing in the general vicinity of the quiet zone in question to determine whether the quiet zone suspension should be lifted or continued, or whether commission approval of the quiet zone should be rescinded and the quiet zone eliminated.