Title 66, Title 66 — Railroads

Any number of persons, not less than five, may form a corporation for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a railroad for the transportation of freight and passengers, and for the purpose of maintaining and operating any railroad already constructed for the like…

Every corporation constructing, owning, or using a railroad, shall restore every stream of water, watercourse, street, highway, plank road, toll or wagon road, turnpike, or canal, across, along, or upon which said railroad may be constructed, to its former state, or to such condi…

Any railroad corporation may raise or lower any turnpike, plank road, or other way for the purpose of having its railroad pass over or under the same; and in such cases said corporation shall put such turnpike, plank road or other way, as soon as may be, in good repair. R.L. 1910…

Every railroad corporation, while employed in raising or lowering any turnpike or other way, or in making any other alterations, by means of which the said way may be obstructed, shall provide and keep in good order, suitable temporary ways to enable travelers to avoid or pass su…

Every railroad corporation shall maintain and keep in good repair all bridges, with their abutments, which such corporation shall construct for the purpose of enabling its road to pass over or under any turnpike road, canal, watercourse, or other way. R.L. 1910, § 1427.

Every railroad corporation operating a line of road within this state must erect suitable signs of caution at each crossing of its road with a public highway. R.L. 1910, § 1428; Laws 1963, c. 46, § 1, emerg. eff. May 2, 1963.

In case any railroad corporation shall refuse or neglect, for a space of thirty (30) days after notice given by the board of county commissioners, to comply with the provisions of the preceding section, it shall become the duty of the county commissioners of each county through w…

Whenever the public authorities having jurisdiction and control over any public highway or street in this state shall deem that the safety of lives and property at any railroad intersection with any highway or street, shall so require, such public authorities as are hereby author…

Whenever said barricading device shall be constructed or installed and maintained and operated, the public authorities having jurisdiction and control over the highway or street at such point shall erect and maintain a reflector warning sign with appropriate words thereon. If sai…

The public authorities, or the political subdivision of the state, having jurisdiction and control over any public highway or street in which such barricading device is constructed or installed, maintained and operated, may expend public funds to pay the cost and expense thereof;…

The public authorities, or political subdivision of the state or the Highway Commission of the state are authorized to cooperate with the federal government in the construction, or installing, maintaining and operating such barricading devices and other safety devices. Laws 1937,…

A bell of at least thirty (30) pounds weight, or a whistle, shall be placed on each locomotive engine, and shall be rung or whistled at the distance of at least eighty (80) rods from the place where the railroad shall cross any other road or street, under a penalty of Fifty Dolla…

When any person owns land on both sides of any railroad, the corporation owning such railroad, shall, when required to so do, make and keep in good repair one causeway or other safe and adequate means of crossing the same. R.L. 1910, § 1431.

A. It shall be the duty of every railroad company or corporation doing business, or operating a line of railroad, within this state, to construct a crossing across that portion of its track, roadbed or right-of-way over which any public highway may run, and maintain the same unob…

specifications. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is hereby delegated the authority to prescribe rules and regulations governing the design, construction and location of such suitable signs hereafter erected which shall conform to one of the then current standards of the Associ…

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations for the design, installation, construction, maintenance, inspection, and testing of warning signal devices at highway and railroad crossings in the State of Oklahoma. Laws 1965, c. 201, § 1, emerg. eff. Ju…

All rolling stock of any railroad corporation organized under the provisions of this article, used and employed in connection with its railroad, and all fuel necessary to the operation of the same, are declared and shall be held to be fixtures; and all such property, and all addi…

It shall be the duty of every person or corporation owning or operating any railroad in the State of Oklahoma to fence its road, except at public highways and station grounds, with a good and lawful fence. R.L. 1910, § 1435.

A lawful fence, under the provisions of the preceding section, shall be composed of posts and barb wires, four wires to be firmly fastened to the posts, such posts to be not more than one (1) rod apart, the top wire to be not less than fifty-four (54) nor more than fifty-eight (5…

Any person owning or occupying land adjacent to any railroad track shall have the right to attach to the fence constructed along the track or right-of-way of said railroad company, any wires boards or other material, so as to make the fence of said railroad company sufficient to …

Whenever any railroad corporation or the lessee, person, company or corporation operating any railroad, shall neglect to build and maintain such lawful fence, such railroad corporation, lessee, person, company or corporation operating the same, shall be liable for all animals kil…

Whenever the owner or occupant of any tract of land abutting on any line of railroad within this state shall desire to enclose any such tract of land for the purpose of making a hog, sheep or goat pasture, and shall construct a fence for said purpose about said tract of land on a…

Whenever the owner or occupant of any tract of land desires to construct a fence as provided in the preceding section, he shall give written notice of his intention to the railroad company upon whose line such tract is situated, by personal service upon the agent of said company …

Penalty. If any railroad company shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of the two preceding sections, it shall be lawful for the owner or occupant of such tract of land to construct or repair the fence along the line of such railroad, and the owner or occupant of …

Every conveyance or lease, deed of trust, mortgage or satisfaction thereof, made by any railroad corporation, of any franchises, real estate fixtures, or other real property, in pursuance of law, shall be executed and acknowledged in the manner in which conveyances of real estate…

Any railroad corporation chartered by or organized under the laws of the United States or any state or territory, whose constructed railroad shall reach or intersect the boundary line of this state at any point, may extend its railroad into this state from any such point or point…

Every railroad corporation organized under the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma, or of the Indian Territory, prior to the taking effect of the Constitution of this state and within three (3) years before said date and that has heretofore or shall within one (1) year from the tak…

Every railroad corporation organized under the laws of any other state or territory or of the United States that has complied with the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma or of the Indian Territory, within three (3) years before the taking effect of the Constitution of this state, …

Any railroad corporation organized under the laws of any other state or territory whose chartered line or route passes through the Territory of Oklahoma or Indian Territory or either or both of them, and whose chartered line or route was not specifically designated or described i…

Every railroad corporation organized under the laws of any other state or territory or the United States, that within three (3) years before the taking effect of the Constitution of this state, shall have complied with the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma or Indian Territory, to…

Every railroad corporation organized under the laws of any other state or territory or the United States, that shall have within the three (3) years prior to the taking effect of the Constitution of this state, complied with the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma or Indian Territo…

Every railroad corporation organized under the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma or of the Indian Territory within three (3) years prior to the taking effect of the Constitution of this state, that has complied with the Constitution of this state, and the capital stock of which, …

Every railroad corporation accepting the benefits of this article regarding domestication or increase of stock, organized under the laws of any other state or territory or of the United States, or the Territory of Oklahoma or the Indian Territory that shall not within two (2) yea…

An attested copy of the writing, in which any corporation which becomes a domestic corporation hereunder claims a domicile elsewhere than in this state, shall be made out forthwith by the clerk of the court in which such writing is filed, and shall be mailed by such clerk to the …

Any person having an established place of business in any town or city within this state, shall have the right to buy, sell and exchange passage tickets or other evidences of a right of passage from one place to another upon any railroad line or steamboat line and their connectio…

Any person purchasing a ticket from the authorized office of any line for the transportation of passengers shall have the right to sell his ticket or tickets to any person doing business under the preceding section: Provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to prevent any …

Railway companies organized under the laws of this state, or doing business within the state, are hereby authorized and empowered at their own expense to appoint and employ law enforcement officers at such stations or other places on the lines of their railroads within this state…

Any railroad company, owning any railroad in this state, may sell or lease the whole or any part of its railroad and branches constructed or to be constructed, or any interest therein, together with all the property, rights, privileges, and franchises thereto pertaining, to any o…

Limits – Exceptions - Penalties. A. As it is immediately necessary for the safety and welfare of the people, no railcar shall be brought to rest in a position which blocks vehicular traffic at a railroad intersection with a public highway or street for longer than ten (10) minute…

Corporations may be formed under the general railway laws of the State of Oklahoma who shall have the power to use electricity for the propulsion of their cars and rolling stock: Provided, that no surface conductor, third rail or other similar device for the transmission of such …

Such corporations in addition to the powers exercised by railroad corporations generally, may, with the consent of the authorities of any city or town in the State of Oklahoma located upon or along its lines, construct system of street railways upon such streets and upon such ter…

Owners of franchises for the operation of electric street railways propelled by means of tracks and trolleys shall have full power and authority under such franchises to extend such transportation system by means of buses or other self-propelled vehicles, and such transportation …

Every railroad corporation shall provide an identical copy of its annual report as filed with the Surface Transportation Board, or its successor, to the Corporation Commission on or before the fifteenth day of May of each year. Railroad corporations not required to file annual re…

This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Railroad Revitalization Act". Laws 1978, c. 164, § 1, emerg. eff. April 10, 1978.

As used in the Railroad Revitalization Act: 1. "Department" means the Oklahoma Department of Transportation; 2. "Railroad rights-of-ways", "trackage" or "projects" shall include within their meaning, but shall not be limited to: any roadbed, drains, fences, ties, switches, rails,…

OS 66-304v1 (SB 341, Laws 2025, c. 31, § 1) OS 66-304v2 (HB 2104, Laws 2025, c. 486, § 556)

Revitalization Act. The Department is authorized, in its discretion, to file an application with the Supreme Court of Oklahoma to determine the constitutionality of the Railroad Revitalization Act, Sections 302.1 through 309 of this title and the programs relating to funding or a…

A. The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized and empowered: 1. To acquire, construct, reconstruct, repair, replace, operate, and maintain railroad rights-of-way and trackage projects at such locations and on such routes as it shall determine to be feasible and economi…

A. The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized and empowered: 1. To acquire, construct, reconstruct, repair, replace, operate and maintain railroad rights-of-way and trackage projects at such locations and on such routes as it shall determine to be feasible and economic…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the exercise of the powers granted by the Railroad Revitalization Act is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, to enhance their safety at public railroad crossings, for the increase of their commerce and prosper…