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2012 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 23: HIGHWAYS
Chapter 619: INSPECTION AND INVESTIGATION OF RAILROADS
23 §7306. Passenger trains prohibited from running over unsafe roads


23 ME Rev Stat § 7306 (2012 through 125th Legis) What's This?

Part 7: RAILROADS HEADING: PL 1987, C. 141, PT. A, §4 (NEW)

Subchapter 1: REVIEW AND MAINTENANCE HEADING: PL 1989, C. 398, §9 (NEW)

§7306. Passenger trains prohibited from running over unsafe roads

When, in the opinion of the commissioner, the passage of passenger trains over any portion of a railroad would be attended with imminent danger, the commissioner may notify the president or superintendent of the road and order the immediate stopping of all passenger trains about to run over that portion of the road. If the commissioner's order is not obeyed, the commissioner shall at once apply to the Superior Court which may, upon satisfactory proof of the necessity for the order and without notice to the company, issue an injunction prohibiting the running of passenger trains over the road until further order of the court. [1989, c. 398, §9 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

1989, c. 398, §9 (NEW).

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