§ 506-37. Utility Vehicles to Stop at Railroad Crossings.  


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  • The operator of any motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire, or of any school bus, or of any vehicle carrying explosives or flammable liquids as a cargo or such part of a cargo as to constitute a hazard, before crossing at grade any track of a railroad, shall stop such vehicle, and while so stopped he shall listen through an open door or open window and look in both directions along the tracks for any approaching train and for signals indicating the approach of a train, and shall proceed only upon exercising due care; after stopping, looking, and listening as required by this section and upon proceeding, the operator of any such vehicle shall cross only in such gear of the vehicle that there will be no necessity for changing gears while traversing such crossing and the operator shall not shift gears while crossing the tracks.

    This section does not apply to abandoned tracks, spur tracks, side tracks, and industrial tracks when the public utilities commission of Ohio has authorized and approved the crossing of such tracks without making the stop required in this section.

    Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than $50 for the first offense; for the second offense such person shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both.

(C.O. 506-37; a. Ord. No. 47-1971, eff. Feb. 10, 1971; reordained as C.M.C. and C.O. 512-5; renumbered to C.M.C. 506-37, eff. Jan. 1, 1972; 506-37, eff. Sept. 6, 1979)

State law reference

See ORC 4511.63, 4511.99.