Title 56, Title 56: Railroads

56-1-13.1. Fencing right-of-way -- Gates. Every railroad company shall erect and maintain a fence on each side of its rights of way where the same passes through lands owned and improved by private owners, and at all public road crossings shall connect the same with cattle guards…

56-1-14. Procedures at grade crossings. Every locomotive shall be provided with a bell which shall be rung continuously from a point not less than 80 rods from any city or town street or public highway grade crossing until such city or town street or public highway grade crossing…

56-1-15. Fire caused by railroad operations. (1) As used in this section: "Railroad operation" means an operation conducted: by a railroad: owner; operator; contractor; or lessee; and on a rail line. "Railroad operation" includes an operation of a train, a construction operation,…

56-1-16. Time schedules to be maintained -- Notice of delays. Every railroad company shall start and run its trains for the transportation of persons and property at such regular times as it shall fix by public notice, and the station agents thereof shall announce on a bulletin b…

56-1-17. Adequate accommodations and regular stops required. Every railroad company shall furnish sufficient accommodations for the transportation of all passengers and property as shall, within a reasonable time previous to the departure of any train, offer or be offered for tra…

56-1-18. Injury to passenger riding outside regular cars. In case a passenger on a train of a railroad company shall suffer personal injury while riding on the platform of any car or on any baggage, wood, gravel or freight car in violation of the company's printed regulations pos…

56-1-18.5. Railroad property -- Duty of care. (1) A person may not ride or climb or attempt to ride or climb on, off, under, over, or across a railroad locomotive, car, or train. (2) A person may not walk, ride, or travel across, along, or upon railroad yards, tracks, bridges, or…

56-1-19. Right to eject passenger. If any passenger refuses to pay the fare or exhibit or surrender a ticket when requested so to do, or if the passenger behaves in a disorderly manner, the conductor and employees of a railroad company may, on stopping the train, put the passenge…

56-1-2. Articles of incorporation -- Contents. The articles of incorporation of a railroad corporation proposing to purchase or construct a railroad shall include, in addition to the matters required to be stated in the articles of incorporation of corporations organized for pecu…

56-1-20. Operating employees to wear insignia. Every conductor, baggage master, engineer, brakeman or other employee of a railroad company, employed in a passenger train or at the stations for passengers, shall wear upon the employee's hat or cap or in some conspicuous place on t…

56-1-21. Checking baggage. A check shall be affixed by the agents or employees of a railroad company to every package or parcel of baggage when taken for transportation and a duplicate thereof given to the passenger or person delivering the same.

56-1-21.5. Railroad special agents. (1) A railroad company may appoint one or more persons to be designated by the railroad company as a railroad special agent for the protection of railroad property and the protection of the persons and property of railroad passengers and employ…

56-1-22. Applicability of public utility provisions. Nothing contained in this title shall be so construed as to dispense with the necessity for railroad companies to comply with the provisions of the title relating to public utilities applicable to such companies and the conduct…

56-1-22.5. Procedures -- Adjudicative proceedings. The Public Service Commission shall comply with the procedures and requirements of, in its adjudicative proceedings.

56-1-25. Track motor cars -- Installation of head and rear lights, canopies, side curtains, windshield and wiper, and heaters. (1) Every person operating or controlling any railroad running through or within the state shall equip each of its track motor cars used during the perio…

56-1-26. Violations -- Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation operating or controlling any railroad running through or within this state using or permitting to be used on its line in this state a track motor car in violation of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a pe…

56-1-27. First-aid kits -- Installation in cabooses. For the purpose of protecting the health and safety of employees of railroads, the Public Service Commission, hereinafter called the commission, shall prescribe standards of health, sanitation and safety requiring the installat…

56-1-28. Report made when first-aid kit opened for use. The employee of the railroad in charge of the train shall report to the office designated by the company whenever any such kit has been opened for use.

56-1-29. Removal or use of first-aid kit except for proper purpose -- Misdemeanor. Any person or any employee of the railroad company who shall remove, carry away from its proper place or use any emergency first-aid kit provided for in this act, except for the purpose of administ…

56-1-3. Stock subscriptions -- Minimum requirements. The Division of Corporations and Commercial Code shall not issue a certificate of incorporation to any railroad corporation which proposes to construct a railroad until it shall appear by the affidavit of at least three of the …

56-1-30. First-aid kits -- Duty of railroads to comply -- Inspection by commission. It shall be the duty of all persons engaged in the operation of railroads to comply with any regulation or order of the commission issued under the provisions of this act, and to furnish any infor…

56-1-31. Agency actions. An employee may file a request for agency action with the commission charging violation of a commission rule, or the commission may initiate an action by filing a notice of agency action.

56-1-32. Judicial review. (1) Any party aggrieved by any order of the commission may obtain judicial review. (2) Venue for judicial review of informal adjudicative proceedings is in the district court of the county in which the place of employment is located.

56-1-33. First-aid kits -- Failure to comply with order or regulation -- Penalty. Any person failing to comply with an order or regulation of the commission authorized by this act shall be liable to a penalty of $25 for each day of noncompliance. The attorney general shall file s…

56-1-34. First-aid kits -- Extension of time for equipping cabooses. Any common carrier railroad which is unable on or before the effective date of this act to equip its cabooses as prescribed herein may apply to the Public Service Commission for extension of time. The commission…

56-1-35. Cabooses and locomotives -- Safety, health, and comfort rules for -- Issuance by commission. The Public Service Commission shall issue general or special orders, rules, regulations, or otherwise; establishing minimum safety, health and comfort for railroad cabooses and l…

56-1-36. Cabooses and locomotives -- Safety, health, and comfort rules -- Committee to compile and codify. The commission shall appoint a committee of equal numbers from railroad management and labor to assist in compiling and coding these rules and regulations.

56-1-37. Cabooses and locomotives -- Safety, health, and comfort rules -- Provisions to be included. These rules and regulations should include the following provisions: (1) Drinking water facilities shall be installed and maintained so as to provide fresh and pure drinking water…

56-1-38. Cabooses and locomotives -- Safety, health, and comfort rules -- Application of chapter -- Exceptions. The provisions of Sectionshall not apply to industrial or interplant operations and to cabooses or yard engines used in yard movements within switching limits having a …

56-1-4. Construction required within limited time. If a railroad corporation which proposes to construct a railroad shall not within three years after its incorporation begin the construction of its railroad and expend thereon an amount equal to at least $300 for each mile of the…

56-1-5. General powers enumerated. Every railroad corporation organized under the laws of this state shall, except as otherwise provided in this title and subject to the limitations and requirements hereof, have all the rights, privileges and powers, and be subject to all the dut…

56-1-7. Purpose unaltered by amendment of articles. Amending the articles of incorporation by adding new lines of route, altering the original route, or changing the termini shall not be deemed an alteration of the original purpose of the corporation.

56-1-8. Use of local streets. No railroad shall use any road, street, alley or highway within any county, city or town except with the consent of the authorities of such county, city or town as provided by law; provided, that this section shall not be construed to prevent railroa…

56-1-9. Right of way in canyons. No railroad company whose right of way or whose track or roadbed upon such right of way passes through any canyon, pass or defile shall exclude any other railroad company from the use and occupancy of such canyon, pass or defile, for the purposes …

56-2-1. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Broken or defective" means any defects in the wheels, trucks, draft gears, couplers, brakes, draft and center sills, of any car, coach, locomotive, or other rolling stock of a railroad company and every other defect in any car, c…

56-2-11. Modification or revocation of commission's orders requiring fencing. Such commission shall also have the jurisdiction and authority to modify or revoke any such order when upon its determination the necessity for any such fence shall cease to exist.

56-2-12. Liability for railroad's noncompliance with commission's fencing orders. The failure of any railroad company or corporation to comply with any order of the commission authorized by this act shall not subject such noncomplying railroad company or corporation, or any of it…

56-2-2. Movement of defective rolling stock prohibited -- Exceptions. It shall be unlawful for any railroad corporation operating or in control of the operation of any railroad within the state of Utah to haul or transport or cause to be hauled or transported any broken or defect…

56-2-3. Penalties. Every railroad corporation guilty of transporting defective cars or equipment within the state is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. Every offense is punishable by a fine not less than $250, and the person or employee of the corporation responsible for permitting…

56-2-4. Enforcement of provisions. The Department of Transportation shall investigate and the Public Service Commission of Utah is hereby required to enforce the provisions of this act, within their respective jurisdictions, and for such purposes are hereby authorized to employ s…

56-2-5. Construction of chapter. It is hereby declared that this act is passed for the purpose of preserving the safety of the public and of employees engaged in the service of railroad companies and to render less dangerous the performance of duties of such employees.

56-2-6. Fencing rights of way to protect livestock -- Power of Public Service Commission to require. The Public Service Commission shall have the jurisdiction and authority to require every railroad company or corporation operating any steam or electric railroad in this state to …

56-2-7. Exercise of fencing power by commission -- Necessity of application by livestock owners. The Public Service Commission may exercise the jurisdiction and authority granted in Sectiononly when at least three persons with the right to drive, range, or graze sheep, cattle, ho…

56-2-8. Contents of livestock owners' application for fencing. In addition to the information required by, the request for agency action shall: (1) identify the lands; (2) identify the name and address of the owner of the lands; (3) if any of the lands are owned by the United Sta…

56-3-1. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Human waste" means excrement, feces, gray water, or other waste material discharged from the human body. (2) "Person" means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation, partnership, association, state, state or f…

56-3-2. Disposal of human waste from passenger train prohibited. No person operating or controlling any passenger train through or within this state may knowingly place, throw, release, discharge, or deposit human waste from a passenger train upon the right-of-way over which it o…