Railroad safety gates shall be lowered, in time, as a warning and in an effort to prevent traffic from using the streets, to offer some obstruction to travelers and to discourage travelers on the streets and sidewalks from any attempt to cross the intersection of the tracks and public ways, when trains are approaching and cross the intersections. After the locomotives, cars, trains, or other vehicles operating on the railroad tracks shall have passed over the crossings, the gates shall then be raised to allow traffic and pedestrians to resume travel on the streets; provided, that the duty of lowering and raising the gates, aforesaid, shall be performed during each hour of the day and night of each passage of the locomotives, cars, trains, and other vehicles on the tracks over the crossings, unless otherwise specifically provided.
(Prior Code, § 77.52) Penalty, see § 76.999