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2006 Code of Virginia - Chapter 13 - Railroad Corporations
- 56-339 - through 56-344
- 56-345 - Description unavailable
- 56-345.1 - Notice; consolidation, merger, abandonments, or discontinuances
- 56-346 - Certain powers conferred by law on railroad corporations
- 56-347 - Power of condemnation; limitation
- 56-348 - Description unavailable
- 56-349 - through 56-351
- 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
- 56-355 - Description unavailable
- 56-355.1 - "State Highway System" defined
- 56-355.2 - Definitions
- 56-356 - through 56-358
- 56-359 - through 56-361
- 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 hi...
- 56-364 - , 56-365
- 56-365.1 - Closing and or consolidation of grade crossings
- 56-366 - Description unavailable
- 56-366.1 - Proceedings to avoid or eliminate grade crossings by grade separation or to widen, strengthen, remo...
- 56-366.2 - Description unavailable
- 56-366.3 - Proceedings to alter, rebuild or replace existing grade separation structure destroyed or rendered ...
- 56-367 - , 56-368
- 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 ...
- 56-370 - Description unavailable
- 56-371 - through 56-382
- 56-383 - Railroad company may construct and maintain telegraph or telephone line
- 56-384 - through 56-389
- 56-390 - through 56-404
- 56-405 - Railroad companies to maintain grade crossings of public highways and approaches; repair by Commonw...
- 56-405.01 - Description unavailable
- 56-405.02 - Railroads to adjust certain public highways at grade crossings
- 56-405.1 - Agreements with Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner or public road authority representative fo...
- 56-405.2 - Construction and maintenance of crossbucks
- 56-405.3 - Description unavailable
- 56-406 - Description unavailable
- 56-406.1 - Proceedings for installation and maintenance of automatically operated gates, signals and other aut...
- 56-406.2 - Proceeding for fixing cost of maintaining such warning devices at public grade crossings
- 56-407 - Description unavailable
- 56-408 - Signs similar to crossing signs prohibited
- 56-409 - , 56-410
- 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
- 56-413 - Description unavailable
- 56-413.01 - Locomotive and rail car standards
- 56-413.1 - , 56-413.2
- 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 - Description unavailable
- 56-417.1 - Clearance to be provided in construction, etc., of railroad structures
- 56-418 - Description unavailable
- 56-419 - Duplicate switch keys of railroads; unlawful making, etc.; punishment
- 56-419.1 - Description unavailable
- 56-419.2 - Safety requirements applicable to vehicles transporting railroad employees
- 56-420 - through 56-425
- 56-426 - Description unavailable
- 56-426.1 - Description unavailable
- 56-427 - Description unavailable
- 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
- 56-441 - Liability for injury to employee
- 56-442 - through 56-444
- 56-445 - Description unavailable
- 56-446 - Information to State Corporation Commission; penalty
- 56-446.1 - Limitations on passenger rail transportation liability.
- 56-447 - through 56-451
- 56-451.1 - Keeping unused tracks in place
- 56-451.2 - Description unavailable
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