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§ 56-339. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1956, c. 435.
§ 56-345. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-345.1. Notice; consolidation, merger, abandonments, or discontinuances - Any railroad company operating in the Commonwealth that submits an...
§ 56-346. Certain powers conferred by law on railroad corporations - In addition to the powers conferred by Title 13.1, every...
§ 56-347. Power of condemnation; limitation - In addition to the powers conferred by Title 13.1, every...
§ 56-348. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-349. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1956, c. 435.
§ 56-352. Railroad to have an insurable interest in property along its route - Every railroad company is hereby invested with an insurable interest...
§ 56-353. Railroad company may appoint police agents - The president or any other executive officer of any railroad...
§ 56-354. Conductors, etc., to be conservators of the peace - Conductors and engineers of railroad passenger trains, and station and...
§ 56-355. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1956, c. 435.
§ 56-355.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2015, c. 256, cl. 9.
§ 56-355.2. Definitions - "Public road authority" as used in this chapter means any...
§ 56-356. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1956, c. 435.
§ 56-359. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-362. Right of railroad to cross watercourse, intervening railroad, etc. - Any railroad corporation created or doing business under the laws...
§ 56-363. Crossing of a railroad or public highway by another railroad; crossing of a railroad by a public highway - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the...
§ 56-364. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-365.1. Closing and or consolidation of grade crossings - Whenever the public safety requires that an existing crossing of...
§ 56-366. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1952, c. 398.
§ 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 - Whenever a road in the primary or secondary state highway...
§ 56-366.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-366.3. Proceedings to alter, rebuild or replace existing grade separation structure destroyed or rendered unusable - In the event an existing overpass or crossing over a...
§ 56-367. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1952, c. 398.
§ 56-368.1. Subsequent maintenance of underpasses and overpasses - After the work specified in §§ 56-366.1 and 56-366.3 regarding...
§ 56-369. Elimination of public grade crossings by change of alignment of public highways or construction of replacement public highways - Whenever the Commissioner of Highways or the appropriate public road...
§ 56-370. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1956, c. 435.
§ 56-371. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-383. Railroad company may construct and maintain telegraph or telephone line - Any railroad company may construct and maintain along the line...
§ 56-384. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-390. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1970, c. 731.
§ 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 - At every crossing, now existing or hereafter established, of a...
§ 56-405.01. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-405.02. Railroads to adjust certain public highways at grade crossings - When adjustments are made to railway trackage grade which crosses...
§ 56-405.1. Agreements with Commissioner of Highways or public road authority representative for maintenance and repair of public grade crossings - Whenever the Commissioner of Highways or representative of the appropriate...
§ 56-405.2. Construction and maintenance of crossbucks - Every railroad company shall cause signal boards, hereinafter referred to...
§ 56-405.3. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-406. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1977, c. 226.
§ 56-406.1. Proceedings for installation and maintenance of automatically operated gates, signals and other automatic crossing warning devices - Railroads shall cooperate with the Virginia Department of Transportation and...
§ 56-406.2. Proceeding for fixing cost of maintaining such warning devices at public grade crossings - Whenever any automatically operated gate, signal or other automatic crossing...
§ 56-407. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1956, c. 164.
§ 56-408. Signs similar to crossing signs prohibited - No device or sign which is in the form of...
§ 56-409. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1954, c. 122.
§ 56-411. Removal of brush and trees from right-of-way - Every railway company operating in this Commonwealth shall be required...
§ 56-412. When trains shall be stopped before getting to railroad crossing - Whenever railroads cross each other on the same grade in...
§ 56-412.1. Railroad cars obstructing street or road; standing vehicle on railroad track - It shall be unlawful for any railroad company, or any...
§ 56-412.2. Ordinances conflicting with § 56-412.1 - No city, town or county shall adopt any ordinance, order...
§ 56-412.3. Maintenance of certain roadways by Buchanan County - The Board of Supervisors of Buchanan County is hereby authorized...
§ 56-413. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-413.01. Locomotive and rail car standards - All locomotives and rail cars operating over the tracks of...
§ 56-413.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-414. Bell and whistle or horn; when sounded - Every railroad company shall provide each locomotive passing upon its...
§ 56-415. Penalty for violation of § 56-414 - Every officer or employee of any railway company, whose duty...
§ 56-416. Effect of failure to give statutory signals - If the employees in charge of any railroad engine or...
§ 56-417. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-417.1. Clearance to be provided in construction, etc., of railroad structures - No railroad, nor any person, firm or corporation operating any...
§ 56-418. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-419. Duplicate switch keys of railroads; unlawful making, etc.; punishment - It shall be unlawful for any person to make, buy,...
§ 56-419.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-419.2. Safety requirements applicable to vehicles transporting railroad employees - A. As used in this section "motor vehicle" shall mean...
§ 56-420. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1988, c. 7.
§ 56-426. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1984, c. 227.
§ 56-426.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1988, c. 891.
§ 56-427. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-428. Railroads liable for damage from fires set out by their engines or trains - Whenever any person sustains damage from fire occasioned by sparks...
§ 56-429. Company to erect fences along roadbed; cattle guards, etc. - Upon the written request by certified mail to the registered...
§ 56-430. Construction of § 56-429; burden of proof - Section 56-429, so far as it relates to fencing, shall...
§ 56-431. When company not liable for injury on enclosed track - No railroad company shall be liable for any injury to...
§ 56-432. Liability for injury on track not enclosed - In any action or suit against a railroad company for...
§ 56-433. Cattle guards; remedy of aggrieved landowner; penalty - Every railroad company whose road passes through any enclosed lands...
§ 56-434. When cattle guards may be discontinued - Every railroad company, after erecting the fences mentioned in §...
§ 56-435. Appeal from general district court to circuit court in cattle-guard cases - In all suits brought before the general district court against...
§ 56-436. Board of appraisers to appraise injured or killed livestock; duty of appraisers - Whenever any horses, cattle, or other livestock are killed or...
§ 56-437. Effect of appraisal in case of suit; costs - If the railroad company fails, for sixty days after such...
§ 56-438. Fee of appraisers - Appraisers appointed pursuant to the provisions of § 56-436 shall...
§ 56-439. Application of §§ 56-436 through 56-438 - The provisions of §§ 56-436 through 56-438 shall not apply...
§ 56-439.1. Notice of injury or death of certain livestock; penalty - Whenever any horses, cattle, or other livestock are injured or...
§ 56-440. Penalty for failure to remove cause of complaint in cities or towns - If any railroad, when directed so to do by a...
§ 56-441. Liability for injury to employee - Every corporation operating a railroad in this Commonwealth, whether such...
§ 56-442. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1980, c. 142.
§ 56-445. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-446. Information to State Corporation Commission; penalty - Every railroad company in this Commonwealth shall, at all times,...
§ 56-446.1. Limitations on passenger rail transportation liability - A. As used in this section, unless the context requires...
§ 56-447. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, cc. 114 and 157.
§ 56-451.1. Keeping unused tracks in place - If a railroad company discontinues operations on all or any...
§ 56-451.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1987, c. 495.