(a) General Maintenance. Every railroad company operating within the City shall lay and keep its tracks so that the rails thereof shall be on a level, as nearly as possible, with the surface or plane of the street or crossing. Every such company shall ballast and plank the space between the rails in a substantial and proper manner, and shall, for the space of two feet immediately on the outside of such rails, pave the street or crossing, and shall keep and maintain such spaces paved or planked.
(b) Right of Way Drainage. Every railroad company operating within the City shall keep and maintain along and under its tracks, properly constructed sewers and drains, through which all water that may collect at and along its roadway may readily flow and pass.
(1977 Code Sec. 36.04, 36.05)