327G.15 Railway and highway crossing at grade.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. a. 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.
b. The department shall promulgate rules according to chapter 17A for processing claims to the grade crossing safety funds.
4. 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]
2010 Acts, ch 1061, §180
Referred to in §327G.16, 331.362
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 327G - RAILROAD RIGHTS-OF-WAY, CROSSINGS, TRACKS, AND FENCING
Section 327G.2 - Crossings — signs.
Section 327G.3 - Railway fences required.
Section 327G.4 - Specifications.
Section 327G.5 - Hog-tight fences.
Section 327G.6 - Failure to fence.
Section 327G.7 - Double damages.
Section 327G.8 - Laws and local regulations not applicable.
Section 327G.9 - Failure to fence — general penalty.
Section 327G.10 - Killing of stock — interpretative clause.
Section 327G.11 - Private farm crossings.
Section 327G.12 - Overhead, underground, or more than one crossing.
Section 327G.13 - Signals at road crossings.
Section 327G.15 - Railway and highway crossing at grade.
Section 327G.16 - Disagreement — application — notice.
Section 327G.17 - Hearing — order.
Section 327G.18 - Railway company to hold in trust.
Section 327G.19 - Grade crossing fund.
Section 327G.21 - Condition after change — temporary ways.
Section 327G.22 - Railway crossings near Mississippi river.
Section 327G.23 - Grade crossings.
Section 327G.24 - Removal of tracks from crossings.
Section 327G.25 - Closing of crossing for repair or upgrade.
Section 327G.28 - Compulsory establishment.
Section 327G.29 - Grade crossing surface repair fund.
Section 327G.30 - Adjustment of expense.
Section 327G.31 - Disagreement resolved.
Section 327G.32 - Blocking highway crossing.
Section 327G.61 - Definitions.
Section 327G.62 - Controversies — hearing — order — review.
Section 327G.63 - Destruction of buildings.
Section 327G.64 - Spur tracks.
Section 327G.65 - Cost of construction.
Section 327G.66 - Bond for construction.
Section 327G.67 - Costs in excess of deposit.
Section 327G.68 - Failure of company to act.
Section 327G.69 - Connections with original spurs.
Section 327G.76 - Time of reversion.
Section 327G.77 - Reversion of railroad right-of-way.
Section 327G.78 - Sale of railroad property.
Section 327G.79 - Valuing property in controversy.
Section 327G.81 - Maintenance of improvements along rights-of-way.