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Title 49, Title 49. Public Utilities

34 chapters · 1,096 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 491,096 Ch 4928, Chapter 4928 | Competitive Retail El…110 Ch 4905, Chapter 4905 | Public Utilities Comm…94 Ch 4909, Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Comm…73 Ch 4907, Chapter 4907 | Public Utilities Comm…70 Ch 4951, Chapter 4951 | Street Railways And I…54 Ch 4955, Chapter 4955 | Tracks; Crossings52 Ch 4929, Chapter 4929 | Alternate Rate Plan F…47 Ch 4933, Chapter 4933 | Companies - Gas; Elec…45 Ch 4981, Chapter 4981 | Rail Development Comm…39 Ch 4957, Chapter 4957 | Elimination Of Crossings38 Ch 4961, Chapter 4961 | Special Powers Of Rai…37 Ch 4906, Chapter 4906 | Power Siting35 Ch 4903, Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Comm…31 Ch 4913, Chapter 4913 | Public Utilities Comm…30

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.16 Commission shall be furnished copies of certain leases, contracts, and agreements
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On demand of the public utilities commission, each railroad within this state shall furnish copies of all leases, contracts, and agreements with express, sleeping car, freight, or rolling stock companies, or other companies doing business upon or in connection with such road, to …
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.17 Report of free transportation
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On the first Monday in February in each year, and oftener if required by the public utilities commission, each railroad shall file with the commission a verified list of all railroad tickets, passes, and mileage books issued free or for other than actual bona fide money considera…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.18 Commission may demand copies of transportation contracts
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When required by the public utilities commission and within a time fixed by it, each railroad shall deliver to the commission for its use copies of all contracts which relate to the transportation of persons or property or any service in connection therewith, made or entered into…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.19 Commission shall prepare blank forms for railroad
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The public utilities commission shall cause blank forms to be prepared suitable for the purposes designated in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code which shall conform as nearly as practicable to the forms prescribed by the interstate commerce commis…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.20 Forms - completion and verification

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A railroad receiving blank forms from the public utilities commission shall cause them to be properly filled, answering fully and correctly each question therein. In case it is unable to answer any question, such railroad shall give a good and sufficient reason for not answering …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.21 Refusal to fill blank forms

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No officer, agent, or employee of a railroad company shall willfully fail to fill out and return a blank form required by the public utilities commission, or by law, or willfully fail to answer a question propounded in a blank form, knowingly give a false answer to such question …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.22 Prohibition against directing violation

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No railroad shall, by itself or by a general officer thereof, by direction, instruction, or request, cause an officer, agent, or employee of such railroad to violate section 4907.21 of the Revised Code.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.23 Duty of railroad to report certain accidents

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Whenever an accident attended with loss of human life occurs within this state upon the line of any railroad, or on the depot grounds or yards of any railroad, such railroad shall give immediate notice of such accident to the public utilities commission.In case of such accident, …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.24 Adequate service and facilities

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Each railroad shall furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities. The charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property, for any service in connection therewith, or for the receiving, switching, delivering, storing, or h…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.25 Railroad shall file schedules

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Each railroad shall print in plain type and file with the public utilities commission, within a time fixed by the commission, schedules, showing all rates, fares, and charges for transportation of passengers and property, and any service in connection therewith, which such railro…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.26 Schedules of joint rates

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When passengers or property are transported over connecting railroads in this state operated by two or more railroads which establish joint rates, fares, and charges, a schedule thereof, compiled as provided in section 4907.25 of the Revised Code, shall be printed, filed with the…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.27 Changes in schedules

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After schedules are filed as provided in sections 4907.25 and 4907.26 of the Revised Code, no change shall be made in any schedule, including a schedule of joint rates, or in any classification, except upon thirty days' notice to the public utilities commission. All such changes …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.28 Charges shall conform to schedule

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No railroad shall charge, demand, collect, or receive a greater or less compensation for the transportation of passengers or property, or for any service in connection therewith, than is specified in the printed schedules referred to in sections 4907.25 to 4907.27 of the Revised …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.29 Commission shall prescribe forms

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The public utilities commission may prescribe such changes in the form in which schedules are issued by a railroad as are expedient. Such schedules, as far as practicable, shall conform to the forms prescribed by the interstate commerce commission.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.30 Free transportation prohibited - exceptions

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No railroad company owning or operating a railroad wholly or partly within this state shall, directly or indirectly, issue or give a free ticket, free pass, or free transportation for passengers, except to: (A) Its employees and their families, its officers, agents, surgeons, phy…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.31 Passes may be interchanged

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Section 4907.30 of the Revised Code does not prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers, agents, and employees and their families. Such section does not prohibit any railroad company from carrying passengers free in order to provide relief in cases of general epidemics, …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.32 Prohibition

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No railroad company shall violate sections 4907.30, 4907.31, and 4907.34 of the Revised Code. No person, other than the persons excepted in such sections, shall use a free ticket, free pass, or free transportation.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.33 Uniform classification of freight

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The classification of freight in this state shall be uniform on all railroads.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.34 Exceptions as to freight rates

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Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code do not prevent the carriage, storage, or handling of freight free or at reduced rates, for the United States, this state, any political subdivision thereof, for charitable purposes, to and fro…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.35 Unjust discrimination - forfeiture

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If a railroad, or an agent or officer of a railroad, by special rate, rebate, drawback, or by means of false billing, false classification, false weighing, or other device, charges, demands, collects, or receives, either directly or indirectly, from any person, firm, or corporati…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.36 Illegal concessions

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No railroad shall demand, charge, collect, or receive from a person, firm, or corporation a less compensation for the transportation of property or for a service rendered or to be rendered by such railroad in consideration of such person, firm, or corporation furnishing a part of…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.37 Unlawful preference

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No common carrier subject to Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code shall make or give undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to a particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or to any particular description of traffic, or subjec…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.38 Rebate or concessions prohibited

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No person, firm, or corporation, shall knowingly accept or receive a rebate, concession, or discrimination in respect to transportation of property wholly within this state or for service in connection therewith, whereby such property, by false billing, false classification, fals…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.39 Depots, switches, and sidetracks

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Each railroad shall provide and maintain adequate depots and depot buildings at its regular stations for the accomodation of passengers. Such depot buildings shall be kept clean, well-lighted, and warmed, for the comfort and accomodation of the traveling public. Each railroad sha…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.40 Control over private tracks

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The public utilities commission has the same control over private tracks, so far as such tracks are used by common carriers in connection with a railroad for the transportation of freight, as it has over the tracks of such railroad.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.41 Supply of cars

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Upon reasonable notice, each railroad shall furnish suitable cars for all persons who may apply therefor, for the transportation of any and all kinds of freight in carload lots, if it is within its power to do so. In case of insufficiency of cars at any time to meet all requireme…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.42 Interchange of traffic

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Railroad companies as between themselves, and interurban railroads and electric railways as between themselves, shall afford reasonable and proper facilities for interchange of traffic between their respective lines, for forwarding and delivering passengers and property, and shal…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.43 Railroad track connection

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When the tracks of a railroad and the tracks of an interurban or suburban railway cross, connect, or intersect, and such tracks are of the same gauge, the companies owning such railroads may connect such tracks so as to admit the passage of cars from one to the other with facilit…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.44 Duty of commission as to dangerous structures

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A railroad subject to regulation by the public utilities commission shall, in accordance with American railway engineers association codes of rules for inspection or other standards approved by the public utilities commission, inspect annually every bridge used for transportation…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.45 Repair of defective track

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No superintendent or other executive officer of a company operating a railroad who receives from the public utilities commission notice of a prescribed rate of speed for trains passing over a defective track, bridge, or other structure, or notice forbidding the running of passeng…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.46 Forfeiture in case of noncompliance

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If the company operating a railroad neglects or without good cause fails to make the repairs or reconstruction prescribed by the public utilities commission within the time limited by it under sections 4907.44 and 4907.45 of the Revised Code, such company shall forfeit to the sta…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.47 Installing crossing signals

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(A) If, after public hearing as to the necessity for installing protective devices at a public railroad highway grade crossing, written notice of which is published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the crossing i…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.471 Surveys determining probability of accident at crossing

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(A) The public utilities commission shall survey all public crossings of railroads at grade, whether on state, county, or township highways or on streets or ways within municipal corporations. The commission shall devise a formula according to sound highway engineering practice f…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.472 Grade crossing protection fund

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(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the grade crossing protection fund for the purpose of paying:(1) The public share of the cost of reducing hazards at public highway-railway crossings at any location where a railway and a public highway intersect each other at a c…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.473 Removing or defacing protective device prohibited

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No person shall unlawfully remove, displace, injure, or deface any sign, signal, gate, or other protective device required to be installed under Chapter 5523. of the Revised Code.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.474 Closing crossings to vehicular traffic

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(A) In making the survey provided for by section 4907.471 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall determine as to each crossing whether there is a demonstrable need for such crossing to exist and whether the crossing could be closed to vehicular traffic, or to …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.475 Closing rural crossings

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(A) If the public utilities commission finds that there is not a demonstrable need for the crossing to exist according to the factors listed in divisions (A)(1) to (9) of section 4907.474 of the Revised Code and that the crossing could be closed to vehicular traffic, or to pedest…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.476 Use of federal funds

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In its administration of sections 4907.47 to 4907.475 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall, to the extent that it uses federal funds in connection with the erection, installation, or maintenance of any grade crossing protective devices or additional grade cr…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.48 Regulation of crossing signals

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All gates, bells, or devices erected under the direction of the public utilities commission shall be built within the time, in the manner, and of materials approved by the commission. Such devices so authorized shall be located in the highway or street on one or both sides of the…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.49 Dangerous crossings

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When two or more railroads cross a public highway or street at a dangerous crossing, the expenses incurred in the erection and maintenance of gates, bells, or other devices, and of necessary gatekeepers or flaggers, and apportioned by the public utilities commission as railroad e…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.50 Engines or trains may pass crossings without stopping

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When two or more railroads, or a railroad and an electric railway, erect a system of interlocking works or fixtures at the place where such railroads, or railroad and railway, cross each other at a common grade, or when a railroad erects such works or fixtures at a swing bridge o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.51 Unsafe interlocking works or fixtures

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If in the opinion of the public utilities commission any system of interlocking works or fixtures referred to in section 4907.50 of the Revised Code proves to be unsafe or impracticable, the commission may order than no engines or trains shall pass over any such crossing or bridg…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.52 Safety devices at grade crossings

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When two railroads, a railroad and an interurban railroad or electric or street railway, two interurban railroads, or a railroad or electric railway and a street or highway cross at grade, if, in the opinion of the public utilities commission, public safety requires protection, t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.53 Hearing as to necessity of safety device

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At the time and place named for hearing, unless continued for good cause, the public utilities commission shall try the question of whether a crossing referred to by section 4907.52 of the Revised Code shall be protected by interlocking or other safety devices, and shall give all…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.54 Compulsory interlocking

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If the tracks of a railroad or electric railway cross at grade the tracks of a railroad or electric railway previously constructed, the former shall provide interlocking works or other fixtures satisfactory to the public utilities commission at such crossing, and pay the costs of…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.55 Crossing without stopping

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When interlocking works or other fixtures are constructed and maintained in compliance with law by railroads and electric railways where railroads referred to in section 4907.54 of the Revised Code cross each other, engines, trains, or cars of an electric railway may be run over …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.56 Forfeiture for noncompliance with order

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A railroad or electric railway refusing or neglecting to comply with an order of the public utilities commission concerning the protection of persons and property from danger at grade crossings of any such railroad over another, or over a swing bridge or drawbridge and at junctio…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.57 Damage claims

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All claims, charges, or demands against a railroad for loss of or damage to property occurring while in the custody of such railroad and unreasonable delay in transportation and delivery, for overcharges upon a shipment, or for any other service in violation of Chapters 4901., 49…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.58 Immediate trial

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Within thirty days from the receipt of the findings referred to in section 4907.57 of the Revised Code, by the clerk of the court of common pleas, the railroad may by motion cause the matter to be docketed as a civil action in said court in which case the original pleadings shall…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4907.59 Counsel for commission

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Upon request of the public utilities commission, the attorney general or the prosecuting attorney of the proper county shall aid in an investigation, prosecution, hearing, or trial had under Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code, and shall institute a…