Title 55, Title 55. Roads-Highways-Bridges

If at the expiration of three months from the time of the entering of the finding and determination for the proposed grade crossing improvement by the director of transportation the railroad companies involved and the director have refused, failed, or neglected to agree upon the …

Upon the filing of a petition under section 5523.05 of the Revised Code, accompanied by plans, the railroad company or director opposed to the prayer thereof, or directly interested therein, may, within forty days after service of summons, file an answer to such petition and pres…

If the court finds any of the plans presented under section 5523.05 of the Revised Code are reasonable and practicable it shall so find and order the proposed improvement to be made in accordance with such plans. The court may modify or change any plans submitted and order the pr…

The cost of constructing the improvement authorized, including the making of ways, crossings, or viaducts, above or below the railroad tracks, together with sufficient approaches thereto, necessary guardrails, and adequate drainage, shall be part of and chargeable to the improvem…

Before the director of transportation may enter into any contract provided for in section 5523.08 of the Revised Code, such contract shall be submitted to and receive the approval of the attorney general as to its form.

The property or rights therein, necessary in making a proposed grade crossing improvement and any relocation of the highway, shall be purchased or appropriated by the director of transportation, who may effect settlement for damages involved. Any appropriation of property by the …

Before any work is done that may be required in the making of the proposed grade crossing elimination improvement, the director of transportation shall file plans covering the proposed improvement in the office of the district deputy director of transportation of the state highwa…

The director of transportation may prescribe the manner and time of payment by a railroad company of the proportion of the cost of the proposed grade crossing improvement that the company shall pay.

Any way, crossing, or viaduct constructed over the tracks of any railroad company under sections 5523.01 to 5523.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be of such height as not to be less than twenty-one feet in the clear, from the top surface of the rails of the railroad trac…

A municipal corporation may co-operate with the department of transportation in the abolishment of railway grade crossings and the construction or reconstruction of bridges and viaducts within such municipal corporation, and may pay such portion of the cost of any of such work as…

From the finding and order of the director of transportation that such improvement as provided for in section 5523.02 of the Revised Code is reasonably necessary and expedient, any railroad company or any interurban railway company may, upon the question of such necessity and exp…

After the completion of the work of constructing, reconstructing, widening, or realigning a separated crossing by the director of transportation, in accordance with sections 5523.01 to 5523.20 of the Revised Code, the separated crossing and approaches thereto shall be kept in rep…

The proportion of the cost of a grade crossing improvement to be paid by the state shall be paid by the director of transportation, upon estimates, out of any fund appropriated to the department of transportation available for the establishment, construction, reconstruction, impr…

When a separated crossing, which was not constructed in accordance with sections 4957.01 to 4957.26 or sections 5561.01 to 5561.15 of the Revised Code, is situated on a road or highway on the state highway system or an extension thereof, and is so located that in order to provide…

When a state highway or an extension or relocation thereof is parallel, adjacent, or near to a railroad, and the director of transportation deems it necessary to separate the grades of any intersecting highway, road, or street with such highway, extension, or relocation thereof, …