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2016 Code of Virginia
Title 56 - Public Service Companies
Chapter 13 - Railroad Corporations
Article 1. Creation, Changes of Corporate Structure, Etc.
- § 56-339. Repealed
- § 56-345. Repealed
- § 56-345.1. Notice; consolidation, merger, abandonments, or discontinuances
Article 2. Powers
- § 56-346. Certain powers conferred by law on railroad corporations
- § 56-347. Power of condemnation; limitation
- § 56-348. Repealed
- § 56-349. Repealed
- § 56-352. Railroad to have an insurable interest in property along its route
- § 56-353. Railroad company may appoint police agents
- § 56-354. Conductors, etc., to be conservators of the peace
Article 3. Extensions; Connections; Crossing Other Railroads, Roads, Etc.
- § 56-355. Repealed
- § 56-355.1. Repealed
- § 56-355.2. Definitions
- § 56-356. Repealed
- § 56-359. Repealed
- § 56-362. Right of railroad to cross watercourse, intervening railroad, etc.
- § 56-363. Crossing of a railroad or public highway by another railroad; crossing of a railroad by a public highway
- § 56-364. Repealed
- § 56-365.1. Closing and or consolidation of grade crossings
- § 56-366. Repealed
- § 56-366.1. Proceedings to avoid or eliminate grade crossings by grade separation or to widen, strengthen, remodel, relocate or replace existing crossing structures on public highways
- § 56-366.2. Repealed
- § 56-366.3. Proceedings to alter, rebuild or replace existing grade separation structure destroyed or rendered unusable
- § 56-367. Repealed
- § 56-368.1. Subsequent maintenance of underpasses and overpasses
- § 56-369. Elimination of public grade crossings by change of alignment of public highways or construction of replacement public highways
Article 4. Duties
- § 56-370. Repealed
- § 56-371. Repealed
- § 56-383. Railroad company may construct and maintain telegraph or telephone line
- § 56-384. Repealed
Article 5. Segregation of Races, Etc.
Article 6. Highway Crossings
- § 56-405. Railroad companies to maintain grade crossings of public highways and approaches; repair by Commissioner of Highways or public road authority; recovery of cost from railroad company
- § 56-405.01. Repealed
- § 56-405.02. Railroads to adjust certain public highways at grade crossings
- § 56-405.1. Agreements with Commissioner of Highways or public road authority representative for maintenance and repair of public grade crossings
- § 56-405.2. Construction and maintenance of crossbucks
- § 56-405.3. Repealed
- § 56-406. Repealed
- § 56-406.1. Proceedings for installation and maintenance of automatically operated gates, signals and other automatic crossing warning devices
- § 56-406.2. Proceeding for fixing cost of maintaining such warning devices at public grade crossings
- § 56-407. Repealed
- § 56-408. Signs similar to crossing signs prohibited
- § 56-409. Repealed
- § 56-411. Removal of brush and trees from right-of-way
- § 56-412. When trains shall be stopped before getting to railroad crossing
- § 56-412.1. Railroad cars obstructing street or road; standing vehicle on railroad track
- § 56-412.2. Ordinances conflicting with § 56-412.1
- § 56-412.3. Maintenance of certain roadways by Buchanan County
Article 7. Safety Provisions
- § 56-413. Repealed
- § 56-413.01. Locomotive and rail car standards
- § 56-413.1. Repealed
- § 56-414. Bell and whistle or horn; when sounded
- § 56-415. Penalty for violation of § 56-414
- § 56-416. Effect of failure to give statutory signals
- § 56-417. Repealed
- § 56-417.1. Clearance to be provided in construction, etc., of railroad structures
- § 56-418. Repealed
- § 56-419. Duplicate switch keys of railroads; unlawful making, etc.; punishment
- § 56-419.1. Repealed
- § 56-419.2. Safety requirements applicable to vehicles transporting railroad employees
- § 56-420. Repealed
Article 8. Rights-of-Way; Fires; Fences; Cattle Guards, Etc.
- § 56-426. Repealed
- § 56-426.1. Repealed
- § 56-427. Repealed
- § 56-428. Railroads liable for damage from fires set out by their engines or trains
- § 56-429. Company to erect fences along roadbed; cattle guards, etc.
- § 56-430. Construction of § 56-429; burden of proof
- § 56-431. When company not liable for injury on enclosed track
- § 56-432. Liability for injury on track not enclosed
- § 56-433. Cattle guards; remedy of aggrieved landowner; penalty
- § 56-434. When cattle guards may be discontinued
- § 56-435. Appeal from general district court to circuit court in cattle-guard cases
- § 56-436. Board of appraisers to appraise injured or killed livestock; duty of appraisers
- § 56-437. Effect of appraisal in case of suit; costs
- § 56-438. Fee of appraisers
- § 56-439. Application of §§ 56-436 through 56-438
- § 56-439.1. Notice of injury or death of certain livestock; penalty
- § 56-440. Penalty for failure to remove cause of complaint in cities or towns
Article 9. Liability to Employees
Article 10. Excursions and Picnics
Article 11. Miscellaneous
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