Indiana Code
Title 8. Utilities and Transportation
Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads

8-4-1-17. Eminent Domain; Conflicting Claimants to Compensation; Judicial Determination - Sec. 17. If there are adverse or conflicting claimants to...

8-4-1-18. Eminent Domain; Court Appointed Attorney for Absentees or Persons Unknown - Sec. 18. The court shall appoint some competent attorney to...

8-4-1-19. Eminent Domain; Stay of Proceedings; Perfecting Defective Title - Sec. 19. At any time after an attempt to acquire...

8-4-1-20. Financing of Operations; Loans and Issue of Security - Sec. 20. A railroad may, from time to time, borrow...

8-4-1-21. Alteration in Lines - Sec. 21. If, at any time after the location of...

8-4-1-22. Railroad Crossings; Grade Separation - Sec. 22. Whenever the track of such railroad shall cross...

8-4-1-23. Public Lands; Acquisition; Location Upon Grounds of State Institutions - Sec. 23. If any corporation shall, for its purposes aforesaid,...

8-4-1-24. Employees; Identification Badges - Sec. 24. Every conductor, baggagemaster, engineer, brakeman, or other servant...

8-4-1-25. State Lien for Penalties, Taxes, and Dues - Sec. 25. The state shall have a lien upon all...

8-4-1-26. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.83, s.28. Repealed by Acts 1975,...

8-4-1-27. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.83, s.29. Repealed by Acts 1975,...

8-4-1-28. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.83, s.30. Repealed by Acts 1975,...

8-4-1-29. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.83, s.31. Repealed by Acts 1975,...

8-4-1-30. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.83, s.32. Repealed by Acts 1975,...

8-4-1-31. Maps and Profiles; Certificates of Proposed Line; Filing - Sec. 31. Every corporation shall, within a reasonable time after...

8-4-1-32. Failure to Complete Road; Voiding of Corporation - Sec. 32. If any such corporation shall not, within three...

8-4-1-33. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.83, s.36. As amended by Acts...

8-4-1-34. Amendment or Repeal of Chapter - Sec. 34. This chapter may be amended or repealed at...

8-4-1-35. Stockholders; Personal Liability for Labor - Sec. 35. The stockholders shall be individually liable to laborers,...

Chapter 2. Amending Articles of Incorporation in Railroad Companies

8-4-2-1. Special Meeting of Shareholders - Sec. 1. Whenever the board of directors of any railroad...

8-4-2-2. Special Annual Meeting of Shareholders; Publication or Delivery of Notice - Sec. 2. The special or annual meeting of the stockholders...

8-4-2-3. Special Annual Meeting of Stockholders; Voting - Sec. 3. At any such meeting stockholders may vote in...

8-4-2-4. Special Annual Meeting of Stockholders; Voting; Certificate of Amendment; Filing - Sec. 4. If at such special or annual meeting of...

8-4-2-5. Defending Shareholders; Payment; Resubmission of Proposed Amendment - Sec. 5. (a) If any shareholder of any such corporation...

8-4-2-6. Stock Without Par Value; Payment in Full - Sec. 6. Any such company authorized by its articles of...

Chapter 3. Size of Board of Directors

8-4-3-1. Election - Sec. 1. The stockholders of any railroad company incorporated in...

Chapter 4. Term of Office of Directors

8-4-4-1. Term of Office; Termination at Election - Sec. 1. It shall be lawful for the board of...

Chapter 5. Consolidation of Railroad Companies

8-4-5-1. Common Name; Adoption - Sec. 1. Whenever two (2) or more railroad companies have...

8-4-5-2. Common Name; Powers and Duties; Construction and Maintenance - Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of said companies,...

Chapter 6. Changing Names of Railroads

8-4-6-1. Resolution - Sec. 1. Railroad companies desiring so to do may change...

8-4-6-2. Resolution; Recordation and Publication - Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of said board...

8-4-6-3. Survival of Actions and Proceedings - Sec. 3. The change of name as provided in this...

Chapter 7. Incorporation of Union Railway Companies

8-4-7-1. Authority for Formation - Sec. 1. Where two (2) or more railroad companies own...

8-4-7-2. Capitalization; Certificate of Incorporation - Sec. 2. The railroad companies uniting in the formation of...

8-4-7-3. Certificate of Incorporation; Powers and Duties - Sec. 3. Such certificate of incorporation shall be signed by...

8-4-7-4. Directors; Numbers; Acquisition of Property - Sec. 4. The board of directors of any such union...

8-4-7-5. Stock Certificates; Proprietary Companies - Sec. 5. The interest of each proprietary company in the...

8-4-7-6. Belt Railroad; Operation - Sec. 6. Any such union railway company may, as owner...

8-4-7-7. Acquisition of Property; Eminent Domain - Sec. 7. Any such union railway company may erect, construct,...

8-4-7-8. Eminent Domain; Application of Law - Sec. 8. The condemnations authorized in section 7 of this...

8-4-7-9. Financing of Operation; Loans and Bond Issues - Sec. 9. Any such union railway company shall have power...

8-4-7-10. Vacation of Street or Alley - Sec. 10. (a) If any union railway company in carrying...

8-4-7-11. Joint Use of Facilities and Equipment - Sec. 11. Any such union railway company may, by agreement...

8-4-7-12. Directors, Officers, and Employees - Sec. 12. The board of directors of any such union...

8-4-7-13. Board of Managers; Associate Companies - Sec. 13. It shall be competent for the board of...

8-4-7-14. Associate Companies; Board of Managers; Delegation of Powers and Duties - Sec. 14. It shall be competent for the board of...

8-4-7-15. Contracts; Tort Liability - Sec. 15. Every such union railway company shall be primarily...

8-4-7-16. Acceptance of Provisions of Chapter; Certificate; Filing - Sec. 16. Any union railway company organized prior to March...

8-4-7-17. Filing of Certificate of Acceptance of Provisions of Chapter; Conclusiveness Upon Associate Companies - Sec. 17. Whenever, prior to March 2, 1885, any union...

8-4-7-18. Mechanic's Liens; Joint Liability of Proprietary Companies - Sec. 18. The proprietary companies shall be jointly liable for...

8-4-7-19. Facilities and Connections; Joint Use by Proprietary Companies - Sec. 19. Any such union railway company may make running...

Chapter 8. Branch Railroads

8-4-8-1. Authority to Operate; Stocks and Bonds - Sec. 1. It shall be lawful for any railroad company...

Chapter 9. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.28, SEC.1.

Chapter 10. Lateral Railroads

8-4-10-1. Authority to Construct and Operate; Eminent Domain - Sec. 1. (a) The owner or owners or their lessees...

8-4-10-2. Width of Road; Route Restriction - Sec. 2. Such proposed lateral railroad shall not exceed one...

8-4-10-3. Adjoining Lands; Entry to Secure Materials - Sec. 3. It shall be lawful for any such person...

8-4-10-4. Connections With Other Roads - Sec. 4. It shall be lawful for any such person...

8-4-10-5. Sheriff as Owner; Nonresident, Incompetent, or Unknown Party - Sec. 5. If any of the owners of any intervening...

8-4-10-6. Certificate of Organization and Route Description; General Powers and Duties - Sec. 6. Such person or persons or company of persons,...

8-4-10-7. Viewers; Fee - Sec. 7. The viewers mentioned in this chapter shall each...

8-4-10-8. Construction Across Highways or Roads; Prohibition - Sec. 8. It shall be lawful for any such person...

Chapter 11. Extension of Railroad Franchise

8-4-11-1. Authority to Construct and Operate - Sec. 1. Any railroad company organized under any general law...

8-4-11-2. Eminent Domain - Sec. 2. Any railroad company extending its line under the...

Chapter 12. Abandonment of Certain Railroads

8-4-12-1. Forfeiture of Rights, Privileges, and Franchises - Sec. 1. Any railroad company organized under a special charter,...

8-4-12-2. Takeover of Derelict Company by New Company; Appraisement - Sec. 2. Any company that is or that may be...

8-4-12-3. Payment of Appraised Value; Disposition - Sec. 3. The money so paid, as is provided in...

8-4-12-4. Fees of Appraisers - Sec. 4. The said appraisers shall receive for their service,...

8-4-12-5. Evidence of Abandonment - Sec. 5. Any such railroad company whose road is incomplete...

8-4-12-6. Annual Financial Statement and Report; Filing - Sec. 6. All railroad companies in this state, or whose...

8-4-12-7. Completion of Road by Transferee Company - Sec. 7. Whenever any railroad company, coming within the provision...

Chapter 13. Voluntary Dissolution of Railroad Companies

8-4-13-1. Authority for Dissolution - Sec. 1. Any corporation organized before or after May 22,...

8-4-13-2. Consent of Shareholders; Certificate of Dissolution - Sec. 2. If the holders of record of all the...

8-4-13-3. Filing Certificate; Entry by Secretary of State - Sec. 3. Upon the filing of any such certificate together...

8-4-13-4. Notice; Publication - Sec. 4. The directors of such dissolved corporation shall forthwith...

Chapter 14. Reorganization of Railroads After Sale

8-4-14-1. Authority for Reorganization - Sec. 1. (a) In case of the sale of any...

8-4-14-2. Certificate of Reorganization - Sec. 2. In case of the sale of any railroad...

8-4-14-3. Powers, Rights, Privileges, Immunities, and Franchises - Sec. 3. Such corporation shall possess all the powers, rights,...

8-4-14-4. Bonds, Mortgages, or Trust Deeds as Security - Sec. 4. (a) Said corporation shall have power to make...

8-4-14-5. Sinking Fund; Stock Issuance - Sec. 5. Said corporation shall have power to establish a...

8-4-14-6. Vesting of Railroad in Foreign Railroad Corporation - Sec. 6. In case a portion of any railroad situated...

8-4-14-7. Powers and Duties - Sec. 7. Any railroad company incorporated under the provisions of...

8-4-14-8. Savings Provisions - Sec. 8. No rights, privileges, or immunities vested or accrued...

Chapter 15. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.28, SEC.1.

Chapter 16. Consolidation of Certain Railroads

8-4-16-1. Authority for Operation - Sec. 1. Any railroad or other company organized under the...

8-4-16-2. Joint Agreement; Stocks and Bonds - Sec. 2. Such consolidation or merger shall be made in...

8-4-16-3. Vesting of Rights, Privileges, and Franchises in New or Surviving Company; Bond - Sec. 3. Upon the consummation of such consolidation or merger,...

8-4-16-4. Survival of Actions; Creditors' Rights; Liens; Survival - Sec. 4. The rights of all creditors of, and all...

8-4-16-5. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1937, c.59, s.5; Acts 1955, c.342, s.2. Repealed...

Chapter 17. Service of Process on Railroads

8-4-17-1. Authority for Appointment - Sec. 1. Every railroad corporation incorporated under IC 8-4-1 and...

8-4-17-2. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1877(ss), c.31, s.2. Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.81,...

8-4-17-3. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1877(ss), c.31, s.3. Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.81,...

8-4-17-4. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1877(ss), c.31, s.4. Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.81,...

8-4-17-5. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1877(ss), c.31, s.5. Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.81,...

8-4-17-6. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1877(ss), c.31, s.6. Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.81,...

Chapter 18. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.28, SEC.1.

Chapter 19. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.28, SEC.1.

Chapter 20. Contracts Between Connecting Railroads

8-4-20-1. Transportation of Freight and Passengers - Sec. 1. All railroad companies now organized or that may...

8-4-20-2. Ratification - Sec. 2. All contracts heretofore made in good faith between...

8-4-20-3. Operation Upon Tracks of Another Company; Tort Liability - Sec. 3. Every railroad company that shall run and operate...

Chapter 21. Stockholder's Rights in Sale or Lease

8-4-21-1. Consent of Stockholders - Sec. 1. No such sale and purchase or lease shall...

8-4-21-2. Dissenting Shareholders; Arbitration of Claims - Sec. 2. A stockholder who, at such meeting, votes against...

8-4-21-3. Dissenting Shareholders; Arbitration of Claims; Deposit of Award With Court - Sec. 3. If such stockholder refuses for a period of...

8-4-21-4. Notice of Intention to Arbitrate - Sec. 4. In all cases of arbitration under sections 2...

8-4-21-5. Approval by Department - Sec. 5. A purchase or lease made under this chapter...

Chapter 22. Stockholder Approval of Lease or Purchase

8-4-22-1. Approval of Lease or Purchase Required - Sec. 1. Any railroad company organized under the laws of...

Chapter 23. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.28, SEC.1.

Chapter 24. Purchase and Sale of Defunct Railroads

8-4-24-1. Certificate of Sale; Public Lease; Sale Notice - Sec. 1. (a) In case a majority in interest of...

8-4-24-2. Powers, Privileges, Facilities, and Franchises - Sec. 2. Such corporation shall possess all the powers, rights,...

8-4-24-3. Reciprocity; Foreign Corporations - Sec. 3. In case the part situate within this state...

8-4-24-4. Liens and Encumbrances - Sec. 4. Next in the order of lien to the...

8-4-24-5. Place of Sale - Sec. 5. So much of any railroad as lies in...

8-4-24-6. Surrender or Assignment of Stock; Acquisition of Stock in Reorganized Company - Sec. 6. In case of the sale of a railroad,...

8-4-24-7. Settlement of Former Account - Sec. 7. No purchaser or purchasers of any railroad shall...

8-4-24-8. Amendment or Repeal of Chapter - Sec. 8. This chapter may be amended or repealed at...

Chapter 25. Underwriting Bonds of Foreign Railroads

8-4-25-1. Authority to Underwrite - Sec. 1. The board of directors of any railway company...

8-4-25-2. Petition - Sec. 2. The petition of the stockholders specified in section...

8-4-25-3. Limitation on Amount - Sec. 3. No railway company shall, under the provisions of...

Chapter 26. Settlement of Railroad Mortgages

8-4-26-1. Notice; Procedure - Sec. 1. If any railroad company has heretofore executed, or...

Chapter 27. Disposition of Foreclosed Foreign Railroad Property

8-4-27-1. Authority for Purchase - Sec. 1. Whenever any railroad, situated partly in this state...

8-4-27-2. Acquiring Corporation; Certificate of Articles of Incorporation; Filing; Powers and Duties - Sec. 2. In case the whole or any part of...

Chapter 28. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.28, SEC.1.

Chapter 29. Awards Against Railroad Carriers

8-4-29-1. Complaint or Petition; Order of Department - Sec. 1. If, after hearing on a complaint or petition...

8-4-29-2. Action Against Carrier - Sec. 2. If a carrier does not comply with an...

8-4-29-3. Limitation of Actions - Sec. 3. All complaints for the recovery of damages shall...

8-4-29-4. Joinder of Parties; Service of Process - Sec. 4. (a) In suits filed under this chapter, all...

8-4-29-5. Cumulative Effect of Chapter - Sec. 5. The provisions of this chapter are cumulative to...

Chapter 30. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.28, SEC.1.

Chapter 31. Railroad's Liability for Fire Damage

8-4-31-1. Insurance; Actions Against Railroads - Sec. 1. Each railroad corporation owning or operating a railroad...

8-4-31-2. "Railroad Corporations" Defined - Sec. 2. The term "railroad corporations" contained in this chapter...

Chapter 32. Railroad's Liability for Livestock

8-4-32-1. Scope of Liability; Evidence as to Name of Railroad - Sec. 1. Any railroad corporation, lessee, assignee, receiver, and other...

8-4-32-2. Complaints; Venue - Sec. 2. If an animal is killed or injured by...

8-4-32-3. Summons; Service - Sec. 3. When the complaint is filed in the circuit...

8-4-32-4. Parties - Sec. 4. The action may, in all cases contemplated by...

8-4-32-5. Judgment Upon Hearing; Order to Appear; Answer; Deposit in Court Pending Final Judgment - Sec. 5. (a) After the hearing of the cause under...

8-4-32-6. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1863, c.25, s.6. As amended by P.L.62-1984, SEC.87....

8-4-32-7. Applicability to Fenced Property - Sec. 7. This chapter shall not apply to any railroad...

8-4-32-8. Repealed - Formerly: Acts 1863, c.25, s.8. Repealed by Acts 1978, P.L.2,...

Chapter 33. Fencing Railroads

8-4-33-1. Time for Construction; Areas to Be Enclosed - Sec. 1. Any railroad corporation, lessee, or assignee or receiver,...

8-4-33-2. Failure of Railroad to Construct; Construction by Abutting Landowner; Compelling Payment by Railroad - Sec. 2. If such railroad corporation, lessee, assignee, receiver or...

8-4-33-3. Maintenance and Repair - Sec. 3. When such fence, barrier and cattle-guards are completed,...

8-4-33-4. Liability for Stock Killed or Injured - Sec. 4. Nothing in this chapter contained shall in any...

8-4-33-5. Farm Crossings; Constructing Gates and Bars - Sec. 5. All gates and bars at farm crossings, shall,...

Chapter 34. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1975, P.L.28, SEC.1.

Chapter 35. Repealed - Repealed by P.L.40-1995, SEC.5.

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Indiana Code Title 8. Utilities and Transportation Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads

Indiana Code
Title 8. Utilities and Transportation
Article 4. Organization and Operation of Railroads