(a) No railroad company, conductor, engineer or other person in the employ of any railroad company shall permit any locomotive car or train of cars, to stand on any street, lane or alley of the City, for a period of time longer than five (5) minutes when such street, lane or alley is at a railroad crossing used by vehicles or pedestrians, except that they may be permitted to stand on the northerly half of Front Street. No railroad company shall keep standing on any track or sidetrack, empty or loaded cars or engine, nearer than fifty (50) feet from the nearest side line of streets so crossed by railroad company tracks. However, this requirement shall not interfere with the necessary stoppage when attached to an engine engaged in the actual work of switching cars and making up and dividing trains and the handling of freight therein, nor with such cars of engines when unloading or loading passengers, freight, fuel or water at any established place of business, fuel stand or water tank.
(b) No railroad company, conductor, engineer or other person in the employ of any railroad company shall obstruct, or permit to be obstructed, a public street, road or highway or a private road used as the primary means of ingress and egress by a landowner or business enterprise by permitting a railroad car, locomotive, or other obstruction to remain upon or across it for a continuous period of more than twenty- five (25) minutes.
(c) No railroad company, conductor, engineer or other person in the employ of any railroad company shall permit any locomotive to stand for longer than thirty (30) minutes within one hundred (100) feet of the property line of any residential parcel while its engine is running or idling.
(d) This section does not apply to obstruction of a public street, road, or highway by a continuously moving through train or when the obstruction is caused by circumstances wholly beyond the control of the railroad company, but does apply to other obstructions, including without limitation those caused by stopped trains and trains engaged in switching, loading or unloading operations.
(Ord. No. 551-2000. Passed 7-17-00, eff. 7-25-00)