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All railroad companies whose tracks enter or pass through the city shall repair, keep and maintain good, safe and sufficient crossings, culverts and bridges, with good, safe and easy approaches thereto on all streets and highways where their respective tracks pass under, across or over any street or highway within the city.
(1964 Code, § 31-7)
Whenever any crossing, culvert or bridge upon the line of any railroad within the city shall be deemed insufficient or unsafe, or shall need repairing, it shall be the duty of the director of the department of public works to give to such company five days’ notice of the work to be done and the place where required. It shall be unlawful for any railroad company to neglect or refuse to repair any crossing, culvert or bridge after having received five days’ notice to do so.
(1964 Code, § 31-8)
Notice to railway companies to provide lights at the crossings of their respective railways with the streets of the city shall be made by resolution of the city council. Such resolution shall state the place or crossing to be lighted and the time such lights shall burn. A certified copy of such resolution shall be served on the local agent or representative of such company by the chief of police. It shall be unlawful for any railway company to fail to provide the lights required at the places or crossings designated, within ten days after service upon it of the resolution.
(1964 Code, § 31-9)
Each and every railroad company whose tracks cross any street of the city shall keep each such crossing well lighted at all times from dusk to daylight, so that the traveled way and the limits thereof and all obstructions thereon and all inequalities in the surface thereof shall be at all times plainly visible.
(1964 Code, § 31-10)
Each railroad company operating trains or switching movements over the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company tracks where same cross East First Street shall be required to use a crew member at the crossing for flagging purposes, at its sole cost and expense.
(1964 Code, § 31-12) (Ord. 6430, § 2, passed 2-1-1971)
(a) It shall be the duty of a crew member on each train to give sufficient warning of all engines and cars moving along the tracks under his or her charge, upon or toward the crossing on East First Street, and to use all possible diligence and care to prevent injuries being caused by such engine and cars to persons upon the street. Such crew member shall also prevent such street from being obstructed at such crossing by engines or cars upon the tracks under his or her charge.
(b) In every case of an obstruction in violation of this code, such crew member shall, within 24 hours thereafter, report to the chief of police or his or her assistant all the particulars of such obstruction, and the name of every person responsible therefor.
(1964 Code, § 31-13) (Ord. 6430, § 3, passed 2-1-1971)
A failure on the part of railway companies to use a crew member for the purposes designated in this chapter shall be good and sufficient cause for the forfeiture of any and all rights and franchises enjoyed by such railroads in the city insofar as the same may have been granted to them or recognized in them by the city.
(1964 Code, § 31-14) (Ord. 6430, § 4, passed 2-1-1971)
All locomotive engines run or operated, or caused to be run or operated, on or across any public street or highway within the city, between sundown and sunup, by any person shall be equipped with a headlight so that the same shall throw the light forward in the direction the engine may be moving, and the headlight shall be kept burning from sundown to sunup.
(1964 Code, § 31-15)
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