Bill Text: OH HB527 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To require railroad companies to install and maintain reflective banners on all hand-thrown switches and derails that connect with main track line.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-28 - To Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security [HB527 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HB527-Introduced.html
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Representative Hagan, R.
Cosponsor:
Representative Pillich
| To enact section 4955.50 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
| require railroad companies to install and maintain | 2 |
| reflective banners on all hand-thrown switches and | 3 |
| derails that connect with main track line. | 4 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 4955.50 of the Revised Code be | 5 |
| enacted to read as follows: | 6 |
| Sec. 4955.50. (A) Every railroad company that maintains | 7 |
| railroad tracks within this state shall install and maintain | 8 |
| reflective banners on all hand-thrown switches and derails that | 9 |
| connect with main track line. Each banner shall be clearly visible | 10 |
| from the operator's position on an approaching locomotive so as to | 11 |
| serve as a warning to the operator of the presence of a | 12 |
| hand-thrown switch or derail. | 13 |
| (B) No railroad company that maintains railroad tracks within | 14 |
| this state shall fail to comply with division (A) of this section. | 15 |
| (C) A railroad company that violates division (B) of this | 16 |
| section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for every reflective | 17 |
| banner that is not properly installed or maintained on a | 18 |
| hand-thrown switch or derail as required by division (A) of this | 19 |
| section. | 20 |
