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CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF ELYRIA, OHIO
DIRECTORY OF OFFICIALS (2024)
PRELIMINARY UNIT
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ELYRIA, OHIO
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
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741.03 CLIMBING UPON RAILROAD CARS.
   No person shall climb, jump, step or stand upon or cling or attach himself to a locomotive, engine or car upon the track of a railroad, unless in compliance with law or by permission under the rules and regulations of the corporation managing such railroad.
(ORC 4999.02)
741.04 MAXIMUM SPEED.
   (a)   No person shall operate or cause to be operated a locomotive, railroad train or railroad car at a rate of speed greater than thirty miles per hour while within the corporate limits of the City.
   (b)   No person shall operate or cause to be operated a locomotive, railroad train or railroad car at such a slow rate of speed, without good and sufficient reason or cause, so as to detour or delay traffic unnecessarily.
   (c)   For purposes of this section, the engineer and conductor, if physically present on the railroad train, locomotive or railroad car, shall each be deemed to be operating or causing to be operated the locomotive, railroad train or railroad car.
(Ord. 84-165. Passed 8-20-84.)
741.05 RAILROAD CARS GOING OVER CROSSING.
   No railroad company or railroad employee shall permit railroad cars to cross any street in the City without being attached to a locomotive. This practice is commonly known as "kicking cars over crossings."
(Ord. 1-58. Passed 3-3-58.)
741.06 LIGHTING OF CROSSINGS.
   Every company or individual owning or operating a railroad within the limits of the City is hereby required to light his railroad track at every point where the track crosses any of the streets or public highways of the City.
   The lights required herein shall be any reasonable kind of light, other than electric arc lights, and shall be kept burning every night from dusk until daylight in the morning.
(R.O. 1946, C. 27, Secs. 3, 4.)
741.07 FAILURE TO COMPLY; CITY'S REMEDY.
   If the provisions of Section 741.06 are not complied with within twenty days after the Chief of Police has served notice of the provisions of Section 741.06 upon the principal agent of a railroad company operating within the City, such company neglecting to comply therewith shall be liable to the City for the expense of such lighting, which the City shall have incurred by causing the lighting to be done, the same to be assessed and recovered in the manner stipulated in Section 741.08.
741.08 NONCOMPLIANCE AFTER NOTICE.
   If after twenty days after the service of the notice prescribed in Section 741.07, any railroad has not erected the lightposts and lights required by Section 741.06, and commenced lighting the same, the Chief of Police shall cause the same to be done at the expense of the City and the Auditor shall make out and deliver to such delinquent company a statement of the expense of such lights and lightposts and demand payment thereof, and, if the same is not paid within ten days, the amount shall be certified to the County Auditor, who shall place the same upon the tax duplicate against the company so delinquent, to be collected as other taxes, or, if Council so directs, the same shall be collected by suit in the name of the City. In like manner, if any company fails to have such lights lighted and kept burning as required by Section 741.06, the Chief of Police shall cause the same to be done at the expense of the City, and the Auditor shall make quarterly statements of the expenses thereof, which shall be presented and collected as herein provided.
(R.O. 1946, C. 27, Sec. 6.)
741.09 DUTIES OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER.
   No person in charge of a locomotive shall do the following:
   (a)   Fail to bring the locomotive to a full stop at least 200 feet before arriving at a crossing or proceed through the crossing before signaled to do so or before the way is clear; or
   (b)   When waiting for a railroad signaling device, stop any portion of the train on or within fifty feet of a public road intersection.
(ORC 4999.04; Ord. 84-165. Passed 8-20-84.)
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