2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 3 - Carriers
CHAPTER 327G - RAILROAD RIGHTS=OF=WAY, CROSSINGS, TRACKS, AND FENCING
327G.15 - RAILWAY AND HIGHWAY CROSSING AT GRADE.

        327G.15  RAILWAY AND HIGHWAY CROSSING AT GRADE.
         Wherever a railway track crosses or shall hereafter cross a
      highway, street or alley, the railway corporation owning such track
      and the department, in the case of primary highways, the board of
      supervisors of the county in which such crossing is located, in the
      case of secondary roads, or the council of the city, in the case of
      streets and alleys located within a city, may agree upon the
      location, manner, vacation, physical structure, characteristics and
      maintenance of the crossing and flasher lights or gate arm signals at
      the crossing and allocation of costs thereof.  The department shall
      become a party to the agreement if grade crossing safety funds are to
      be used.  Up to seventy-five percent of the maintenance cost of
      flasher lights or gate arm signals at the crossing and an unlimited
      portion of the cost of installing flasher lights or gate arm signals
      at the crossing may be paid from the grade crossing safety fund.
         Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, maintenance of
      flasher lights or gate signals installed or ordered to be installed
      before July 1, 1973, shall be assumed wholly by the railroad
      corporation.
         Payments from the grade crossing safety fund shall be made by the
      treasurer of state upon certification by the department that the
      terms of the agreement have been followed.
         The department shall promulgate rules according to chapter 17A for
      processing claims to the grade crossing safety funds.
         The provisions of this section shall not apply to the repair of
      the grade crossing surface.  

         [R60, § 1321, 1322; C73, § 1262, 1263; C97, § 2017, 2018; § SS15,
      § 2017; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 8020, 8024, 8025; C46, § 478.21,
      478.25, 478.26; C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, § 478.21; C77, 79,
      81, § 327G.15]
         Referred to in § 327G.16, 331.362