The City Council expressly reserves to itself all rights and powers to regulate the location, construction, maintenance, operation and removal of all railroads, railroad tracks, depots and facilities related thereto and the operation and movement of all trains, engines and cars on and in said tracks and facilities; and no grant, contract or franchise shall be construed as conveying, surrendering or transferring such rights and powers to any grantee.
(1979 Code § 12.36.020)
A. Facilities; Maintenance: All persons, associations or corporations, as set forth in Section 7-13-1 of this Chapter, shall, at their own expense, construct and maintain in good repair all water sects, drains, sewers, street crossings or receiving basins, water distribution facilities, and all fixtures connected therewith and the distribution of water in the City that may be affected by such railroads or railroad tracks. The construction, alterations and repairs shall be done under the direction of the City Engineer, subject to the approval of the Mayor.
(1979 Code § 12.36.030; amd. 1999 Code)
B. Cross Street Facilities: All railroad companies shall construct at their own expense such arches, viaducts and bridges for all the cross streets intersected by the embankments or excavations for railroad tracks as in the opinion of the Mayor may be required to make the passage over the railroad and embankment easy and convenient for all purposes for which streets are usually used. They shall also construct and properly maintain such drains and sewers as their embankments and excavations may make necessary. Said companies shall make their railroad paths conform to what is or what may hereafter be the regulation or grade of the street or place through which their railroads pass. It shall be unlawful to take up, remove, carry away or cause to permit to be taken up, removed, or carried away, any rock, gravel, earth or other material from any street or public place for making embankments, grades or for any other purpose except by permission of the Mayor and under the direction of the City Engineer.
(1979 Code § 12.36.040; amd. 1999 Code)
C. Speed And Traffic: It is unlawful for any person to run any passenger locomotive, passenger train or passenger cars operated by steam or diesel at a greater speed than thirty (30) miles per hour or to run any freight or diesel at a greater speed than fifteen (15) miles per hour within the corporate limits of the City, and the bells on locomotives, while in motion, shall in all cases, be rung continually in the inhabited portions of the City; and all trains are required to come to a full stop before crossing any line of railroad and at a distance of not less than fifty feet (50') therefrom.
(1979 Code § 12.36.060)
D. Crossing Gates: It shall be the duty of all railroad or depot companies operating within the limits of the City to construct, operate and maintain suitable and convenient gates at such street crossings in use by them as the Mayor may direct.
(1979 Code § 12.36.080; amd. 1999 Code)
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