Arizona Administrative Code › Title 14 - PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS; CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; SECURITIES REGULATION › Chapter 5 - CORPORATION COMMISSION - TRANSPORTATION › Article 1 - RAILROADS › Section R14-5-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in this Article:
1. "Car stop" means a device installed or constructed at the
				  end of a spur track to prevent railroad cars from going off the rails.
2. "Commission" means the Corporation Commission.
3. "Configuration of a public railroad-highway grade
				  crossing" means the physical characteristics of the crossing, including, but
				  not limited to, size and type of warning devices, path of the roadway over the
				  railroad track or tracks, warning signs, pavement markings, and roadway
				  crossing surface.
4. "Constructive placement" means cars cannot be delivered to
				  the designated private siding because of the inability of the consignee to
				  receive them. The cars are placed in a sliding, another private track, or
				  interchange track near the consignee's facility until such time as they can be
				  delivered to the consignee.
5. "Event recorder" means a device located in the locomotive
				  that records information reflecting the operation of the train, including on
				  speed, elapsed time, direction of travel, load (amps), automatic brakes,
				  dynamic brakes, and throttle settings.
6. "Hazardous materials" means any hazardous substance as
				  defined by A.R.S. §
									49-201(16)(a), (b), (c),
				  (e), and (f).
7. "Highway authority" means the county, municipal, or other
				  local board or body exercising jurisdiction over highways under the laws of
				  this state.
8. "House track" means a track adjacent to or entering a
				  freight house, used for the primary purpose of receiving or delivering
				  freight.
9. "Industrial track" means a track or portion of track over
				  which a railroad operates but which the railroad does not own or maintain
				  either the rails, ties, or roadbed; or a track or portion of track which is
				  devoted to the purpose of the user, either by lease or written agreement, in
				  which case the lease or written agreement shall be considered as equivalent to
				  ownership.
10. "Ladder track" means a track connecting successively the
				  body of tracks of a train yard.
11. "Locomotive" means a self-propelled vehicle running on
				  rails and generating or converting energy into motion for the primary purpose
				  of hauling rail cars.
12. "Overhead clearance" means the vertical distance from the
				  level of the top of the highest rail to a structure or obstruction
				  above.
13. "Person" means any individual, firm, joint venture,
				  partnership, corporation, association, municipality, governmental unit,
				  department, or agency and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignee, or
				  personal representative thereof.
14. "Private grade crossing" means any crossing where a legal
				  agreement exists between a private property owner and a railroad company for
				  the exclusive use of the landowner and the landowner's invitee.
15. "Public grade crossing" means any crossing, used by the
				  general public, for which a legal agreement between a private property owner
				  and a railroad company does not exist.
16. "Rail gage" means the distance between the heads of the
				  rails, measured at right angles to the rails in a plane 5/8 of an inch below
				  the top of the railhead. Standard gage is 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches.
17. "Railroad" means every railway, other than a street
				  railway, operated for public transportation of persons or property.
18. "Reconstruction" means the use of more than 50% of the
				  material necessary to replace an entire structure or facility, or more than 50%
				  of the current value of an entire installation.
19. "Side clearance" means the shortest distance from the
				  centerline of track to a structure or obstruction at the side of the
				  track.
20. "Spur track" means a stub track of indefinite length
				  diverging from a main track or other track.
21. "Team track" means a track subject to general use by the
				  public for the loading or unloading of freight cars.
22. "Unauthorized grade crossing" means any grade crossing
				  that is not a public grade crossing or a private grade crossing or has not been
				  issued an AAR/DOT crossing inventory.