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(a) When any railroad engine or train of cars shall, by unavoidable accident or necessity, be stopped across any street or public highway in the City, the train shall be cut as soon as possible, so as to clear all public crossings.
(1953, §29.8)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(a) Through railroad engines with trains of cars shall not exceed a speed limit of thirty miles per hour, nor decrease speed to less than fifteen miles per hour while traveling through the City. Switch engines and/or local trains of cars are exempt from the minimum speed required in this section.
(Ord. 4666-54. Passed 10-4-54.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(a) Every person owning, possessing or operating any railroad in the City at any time shall, within twenty days after notice of the requirements of ordinances of the City, cause that portion of such railroad track owned, possessed or operated by them within the corporate limits to be lighted wherever such railroad intersects any street, avenue, common, park or public highway in the City.
(1953, §29.10)
(b) If any person shall refuse or neglect to light its tracks in conformity with the City ordinance requiring the same to be done, for twenty days after notice, as provided in subsection (a) hereof, the City authorities may proceed immediately to cause the same to be done, and assess the cost thereof against any person so refusing or neglecting and collect the same as provided by law.
(1953, §29.11)
(c) The lights described in subsection (a) and (b) hereof shall be required to be kept burning the same number of hours per night as is now or may hereafter be required of other public lamps within the corporate limits and under the City's control. The style of lamps, posts, supports, wires and fixtures thereof shall conform to those furnished for lighting other portions of the City.
(1953, §29.12)
(a) All railroad companys operating within the City are herewith ordered and required to improve, repair, repave, maintain and keep in repair, good and sufficient crossings over, or approaches to their respective railways, their tracks, side tracks and switches at all points where any public highway, street, lane, avenue, alley, road or pike is intersected by their respective railway, its tracks, side tracks or switches, including good and sufficient sidewalks, on both sides of streets, intersected by their respective roads, the full width of the right of way owned, claimed or occupied by each respective railroad company named herein or their successors and assigns.
(1953, §29.13)
(1953, §29.13)
(b) The improvements including the sidewalks required by subsection (a) hereof shall be either paved with stones, gravel, boulders or reinforced concrete slabs, metal plates or wooden asphaltic pavement, as may be deemed proper, and approved by the Director of Public Service and Safety and the City Engineer.
(1953, §29.14)
(c) The Director of Public Service and Safety is hereby required to serve a written notice to the respective railroad companies ordering, describing and setting forth the kind, extent and time of the improvements.
(1953, §29.15)
(d) Upon failure of any railroad company, notified as provided in subsection (c) hereof to make such improvements within a period of thirty days after receiving the written notice thereof, the Director of Public Service and Safety shall cause the improvements to be made as ordered and shall recover the cost of such improvement with interest thereon.
(1953, §29.16)
(e) In the event any railroad company shall refuse to pay the cost of improvements under the provisions of subsection (d), with interest thereon, then in that event, the Director of Public Service and Safety shall certify the same to the City Solicitor, who shall institute a civil action against the railroad company in the name of the City.
(1953, §29.17)
(a) A railroad company which has installed gates, bells, flashing lights or other such warning signals or protective devices at any road-railway crossing within the City shall be responsible for keeping such equipment properly maintained, in good repair and properly functioning.
(b) A railroad company installing such equipment shall respond to calls of malfunctioning of defective equipment within a reasonable amount of time upon being duly notified of same by appropriate City personnel. The railroad company shall then repair such malfunction or defect and shall safeguard the crossing until such time as normal operation of the equipment can be restored.
(c) Failure of a railroad company to make such repairs within a reasonable amount of time, which shall in no case exceed a period of two hours, constitutes a minor misdemeanor punishable in accordance with Section 501.99.
(Ord. 10183/90. Passed 11-14-90.)
Any railroad company granted an abandonment certificate by the Interstate Commerce Commission shall remove all track, and restore all grade crossings, on trackage abandoned within the corporation limits of the City. Such removal and restoration shall be done to City standards and within six months after such abandonment certificate is granted.
When an abandoning railroad company sells abandoned track for continued service or salvage, it alone shall be responsible for removal and restoration costs.
If trackage is removed between grade crossings, and the crossings are not removed and surfaces restored within thirty days thereafter the City shall have the right to remove these crossings and to charge the abandoning railroad company for all costs in connection therewith.
Whoever violates this section, in addition to any civil or other liability is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Each day of such violation shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 10491/93. Passed 3-10-93.)
(a) No person shall knowingly, and by any means, drop or throw any object at, onto, or in the path of, any railroad rail, railroad track, locomotive, engine, railroad car, or other vehicle of a railroad company while such vehicle is on a railroad track.
(b) No person, without privilege to do so, shall climb upon or into any locomotive, engine, railroad car, or other vehicle of a railroad company when it is on a railroad track.
(c) No person, without privilege to do so, shall disrupt, delay, or prevent the operation of any train or other vehicle of a railroad company while such vehicle is on a railroad track.
(d) Whoever violates subsection (a) of this section is guilty of railroad vandalism. Whoever violates subsection (b) of this section is guilty of criminal trespass on a locomotive, engine, railroad car or other railroad vehicle. Whoever violates subsection (c) of this section is guilty of interference with the operation of a train.
Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, railroad vandalism; criminal trespass on a locomotive, engine, railroad car, or other railroad vehicle; and interference with the operation of a train each is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the violation of subsection (a), (b) or (c) of this section causes serious physical harm to property, creates a substantial risk of physical harm to any person, causes physical harm to any person, or serious physical harm to any person, the violation is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(e) No person shall knowingly deface, damage, obstruct, remove, or otherwise impair the operation of any railroad grade crossing warning signal or other protective device, including any gate, bell, light, crossbuck, stop sign, yield sign, advance warning sign, or advance pavement marking.
(f) Whoever violates subsection (e) of this section is guilty of railroad grade crossing device vandalism. Except as otherwise provided in this division, railroad grade crossing device vandalism is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the violation of subsection (e) of this section causes serious physical harm to property or creates a substantial risk of physical harm to any person, causes physical harm to any person, or causes serious physical harm to any person, railroad grade crossing device vandalism is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law.
(ORC 2909.10, 2909.101)
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