(a) If, upon report of the traffic engineer or from other satisfactory evidence, the city council is convinced that the public safety requires that any railroad company should repair any of its bridges or culverts in any street in the city or should construct new bridges or culverts therein, the council shall cause written notice of 30 days to be given such company to this effect and order such work to be done at once under the supervision and direction of the city engineer, and such work shall be done at once, after the expiration of such notice, under the supervision and direction of the city engineer.
(b) No railroad company shall build or repair any bridge or culvert in any street in the city except after notice to do so, as provided for in subsection (a) of this section, and then only under the direction of the traffic engineer.
(Code 1965, § 23-1)