(a) The operator of any motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire, or of any school bus, or of any vehicle carrying explosives or flammable liquids as a cargo, or such part of a cargo as to constitute a hazard, before crossing at grade any track of a railroad, shall stop such vehicle, and while so stopped he shall listen through an open door or open window and look in both directions along the track for any approaching train, and for signals indicating the approach of a train, and shall proceed only upon exercising the due care after stopping, looking and listening as required by this section and upon proceeding, the operator of any such vehicle shall cross only in such gear of the vehicle that there will be no necessity for changing gears while traversing such crossing and the operator shall not shift gears while crossing the tracks.
This subsection (a) does not apply at street railway grade crossings, or to abandoned tracks, spur tracks, side tracks and industrial tracks when the Ohio Public Utilities Commission has authorized and approved the crossing of such tracks without making the stop required by this subsection (a).
(ORC 4511.63)
(b) When stop signs authorized by the Commissioner of Transportation are erected at railroad grade crossings, the operator of any vehicle shall stop within fifty but not less than fifteen feet from the nearest rail of the railroad tracks and shall exercise due care before proceeding across such grade crossing.
(ORC 4511.61; Ord. 104-94. Passed 3-14-94.)