Title 58, Public Utilities, Services and Carriers

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any owner of riparian rights or other landowner from recovering just compensation for any injury to or diminution of such rights sustained by reason of any corporation exercising any rights hereunder.

Any canal company organized under this chapter may mortgage its property and franchises and issue bonds on such terms and conditions and for such purposes and uses of the corporation as it may from time to time deem necessary if the consent of the Commission to the issue of any b…

The State may acquire title to any property of any canal company chartered hereunder upon paying just compensation therefor. If the parties cannot agree upon just compensation it shall be determined by any court of competent jurisdiction.

No rights of the State in canals shall be transferred, leased, conveyed away or otherwise used or burdened except by act of the General Assembly.

All subscriptions to the capital stock of any corporation organized under this chapter shall be payable in money or in labor or in property at its money value. The labor or the property, or the value thereof, shall be named in the list of subscription, to be approved by the board…

When not less than fifty per cent of the capital stock shall have been subscribed by bona fide subscribers, in the case of canal, steamboat and street railway companies and when not less than five hundred dollars per mile shall have been subscribed by bona fide subscribers in the…

Any corporation organized under the provisions of this chapter or under Chapter 7 of Title 33 engaged in the transportation of freight or passengers, by means of steamboat or otherwise, upon any of the navigable waters of this State, may exact reasonable tolls or fees for the use…

Upon the completion of the organization of any such corporation, the incorporators shall immediately file in the office of the Secretary of State a return, under their hands and seals, duly attested, sworn to or acknowledged before some officer qualified to administer an oath, th…

Bicycles and baby carriages shall be deemed baggage for the purpose of transportation by steam railroads and steam ferries. Steam railroads and steam ferries shall carry bicycles and baby carriages under the same rules and subject to the same liabilities as govern trunks and othe…

All first class coaches and cabins shall be provided with a toilet compartment at each end of such coaches or cabins on one of which compartments shall be placed the word "women" and on the other the word "men." The toilet compartment for women shall be provided with a hopper sea…

Should no return as herein provided be made to the Secretary of State within twelve months from the granting of the incorporators' commission, all proceedings hereunder shall be void and the incorporators shall be deemed to have waived all rights acquired under their declaration …

Private roads crossing railroads shall be protected by the railroads as the law requires them to protect public highways.

A person who wilfully does or causes an action, or aids or assists an action with intent to obstruct any engine, carriage, or car passing upon a railroad or with intent to endanger the safety of persons within these vehicles is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be imp…

It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to place any explosive substance whatever upon the rail of any railroad, whether operated by steam, electricity or otherwise, in this State and any person who violates the provisions of this section or aids or assists therein shall…

Any person who shall wilfully and maliciously or with intent to steal or to injure, take or remove the brasses, bearings, waste or packing from out any journal box or boxes of any locomotive, engine, tender, carriage, coach, car, caboose or truck used or operated upon any railroa…

Whoever breaks and enters, in the night, any railroad or electric railway car or enters in the night without breaking, breaks and enters in the daytime or shoots with any firearm into any railroad or electric railway car, with intent to commit the crime of larceny or any other cr…

Whoever unlawfully and intentionally injures, molests or destroys any of the electric signals of a railroad or electric railway corporation or any of the lines, wires, posts, or any other structure or mechanism used in connection with such signals on any railroad or electric rail…

(A) It is unlawful for a person to wilfully and maliciously cut, mutilate, deface, or otherwise injure a railroad or electric railway, including anything appertaining to the railroad or electric railway or any material or instrument for the construction of the railroad or electri…

(A) It is unlawful to purchase, sell, or transport railroad track materials for the purpose of recycling. (B) This section does not apply to: (1) a railroad company or a railroad company's authorized agent; (2) a business that owns a railroad spur; (3) an independent railroad con…

Anyone who shall in any way be guilty of riotous or disorderly conduct or who shall conduct himself in any way to the annoyance of the traveling public on a train, coach or car of any common carrier shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fin…

It shall be unlawful for any person to use for advertising purposes the kind of a cross usually used as a crossing sign by steam and electric railroads. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or imprisonm…

Upon the filing of the return and the payment of charter fees required by Chapter 29 of Title 33 the Secretary of State shall issue to the board of directors a certificate, to be known as a charter, that the corporation has been fully organized, according to the laws of this Stat…

It shall be unlawful for any person to make, buy, sell or give away to any other person any duplicate key to any lock belonging to or in use by any railroad company in this State on its switches or switch tracks except upon the written order of that officer of such railroad compa…

A bell of at least thirty pounds' weight and a steam or air whistle shall be placed on each locomotive engine or interurban car and such bell shall be rung or such whistle sounded by the engineer, fireman or motorman at the distance of at least five hundred yards from the place w…

Whenever a cause of action shall arise against any railroad or street railway corporation in favor of any person for personal injury or injury to property sustained by any person or in favor of any municipal corporation for any injuries to any of the streets or highways of such m…

When any railroad company has what is usually called a relief department for its employees, the members of which are required or permitted to pay some dues, fees, moneys or compensation to be entitled to the benefits thereof upon the death or injury of the employee, a member of s…

The fiscal year for which reports shall be made by railroad companies in the State to the Office of Regulatory Staff and to other officers of the State shall terminate on the thirty-first day of December, so as to conform to the calendar year and to the fiscal year as fixed by th…

All reports required by law to be made by railroad companies to the Office of Regulatory Staff or to other officers of the State at specified times and based upon the operations of such railroad companies for the fiscal year preceding such reports shall be made after the thirty-f…

All annual reports required to be filed with the Office of Regulatory Staff by railroads doing business in this State shall be filed with the Office of Regulatory Staff within three months after the close of the year for which the report is made. But the Office of Regulatory Staf…