1030.01 Signals required at certain crossings.
1030.02 Lights at crossings required.
1030.03 Hours to be lighted.
1030.04 Noncompliance; remedy of City.
1030.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Railroad crossings - see Ohio R. C. Ch. 4955
Preparation of plans and specifications for railroad crossings see Ohio R. C. 4957.12
Operation of motor vehicles at railroad grade crossings - see TRAF. 432. 31 et seq. , 438. 27
Railroads - see GEN. OFF. Ch. 654
(a) The Chessie System shall install and maintain at the Union Street railroad crossing in the City an electrically-operated, automatic warning system, consisting of electric flasher lights, bells and short-arm gates; at the East Main Street crossing an electrically operated, automatic warning system, consisting of electric flasher lights and bells; and at the East Church Street railroad crossing an electrically operated, automatic warning system, consisting of electric flasher lights and bells.
(b) The Penn-Central Transportation Company shall install and maintain at the East Main Street and North Morris Street railroad crossing, at the Cedar Street crossing, at the Oakwood Avenue crossing and at the O'Bannon Avenue crossing, electrically-operated, automatic warning systems, consisting of electric flasher lights, bells and short-arm gates, all such installations to include automatic gates across all sidewalk approaches to the crossings.
(1969 Code Sec. 75.50)
The Chessie System and the Penn-Central Transportation Company are hereby required to light those portions of their tracks and railways within the corporate limits of the City, with any proper light of sufficient power to equal a 200 candlepower arc light, at the points where the following named streets intersect the tracks of such railroad companies: Kibler, Oak, North, St. Clair, Wyoming, Locust, Church, East Main, Maiden, Oakwood, Penney, Cedar, Arch, Morris, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Union, Pine, Leroy and Williams Streets and Dacrow Avenue.(1969 Code Sec. 75. 51)
The lights required by Section 1030.02 shall be kept burning the same number of hours per night as may now or hereafter be required of other public lights within the City and under its control.
(1969 Code Sec. 75.52)
(a) If the lights required in Section 1030.02 are not provided by the railroad companies, such lighting shall be provided by the City at the expense of the companies and the costs thereof shall be made a lien upon the properties of the companies as provided by law.
(b) If the City furnishes such lights, the cost thereof shall be due and payable to the City every six months after the light has been furnished.
(1969 Code Sec. 75. 53)
(c) The remedy provided for in this section shall be in addition to the penalty provided in Section 1030.99.
Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1, 000) or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. If the violator is a corporation and the circumstances required for organizational criminal liability, as provided for in Section 606.08 of Part Six -the General Offenses Code, are present, it shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars ($5, 000). A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.