136-20.1. To require installation and maintenance of block system and safety devices; automatic signals at railroad intersections.
(a) The Department of Transportation is empowered and directed to require any railroad company to install and put in operation and maintain upon the whole or any part of its road a block system of telegraphy or any other reasonable safety device, but no railroad company shall be required to install a block system upon any part of its road unless at least eight trains each way per day are operated on that part.
(b) The Department of Transportation is empowered and directed to require, when public safety demands, where two or more railroads cross each other at a common grade, or any railroad crosses any stream or harbor by means of a bridge, to install and maintain such a system of interlocking or automatic signals as will render it safe for engines and trains to pass over such crossings or bridge without stopping, and to apportion the cost of installation and maintenance between said railroads as may be just and proper. (1907, c. 469, s. 1b; 1911, c. 197, s. 2; Ex. Sess. 1913, c. 63, s. 1; C.S., ss. 1047, 1049; 1933, c. 134, s. 8; 1941, c. 97; 1963, c. 1165, s. 1; 1995 (Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 673, s. 5.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Article 2 - Powers and Duties of Department and Board of Transportation.
§ 136-17.2 - Members of the Board of Transportation represent entire State.
§ 136-18 - Powers of Department of Transportation.
§ 136-18.01 - Consultation required for welcome and visitor centers.
§ 136-18.02 - Operation of electric vehicle charging stations at rest stops; report.
§ 136-18.03 - Outside counsel.
§ 136-18.04 - Product Evaluation Program.
§ 136-18.05 - Establishment of "DOT Report" Program.
§ 136-18.06 - Public Street Information Database.
§ 136-18.07 - Subdivision Roads Manual.
§ 136-18.3 - Location of garbage collection containers by counties and municipalities.
§ 136-18.3A - Wireless communications infrastructure.
§ 136-18.4 - Provision and marking of "pull-off" areas.
§ 136-18.5 - Wesley DWebster Highway.
§ 136-18.5A - Purple Heart Memorial Highway.
§ 136-18.5B - Dale Earnhardt Highway.
§ 136-18.5C - The U.SMarine Corps HighwayHome of Carolina-Based Marines since 1941.
§ 136-18.6 - Cutting down trees.
§ 136-19.3 - Acquisition of buildings.
§ 136-19.4 - Registration of right-of-way plans.
§ 136-19.4A - Required surveying information in certain acquisition plans.
§ 136-19.5 - Utility right-of-way agreements.
§ 136-19.6 - Right-of-Way Claim Report.
§ 136-20 - Elimination or safeguarding of grade crossings and inadequate underpasses or overpasses.
§ 136-21 - Drainage of highway; application to court; summons; commissioners.
§ 136-22 - View by commissioners; report; judgment.
§ 136-25 - Repair of road detour.
§ 136-27 - Connection of highways with improved streets; pipelines and conduits; cost.
§ 136-27.3 - Relocation of municipalities' utilities by Department; repayment by municipalities.
§ 136-27.3A - Relocation of automatic license plate reader systems.
§ 136-27.4 - Use of certain right-of-way for sidewalk dining.
§ 136-28.1 - Letting of contracts to bidders after advertisement; exceptions.
§ 136-28.2 - Relocated transportation infrastructure; contracts let by others.
§ 136-28.5 - Construction diaries; bid analysis and management system.
§ 136-28.6 - Participation by the Department of Transportation with private developers.
§ 136-28.6A - Partnerships with private developers.
§ 136-28.6B - Applicable stormwater regulation.
§ 136-28.7 - Contract requirements relating to construction materials.
§ 136-28.8 - Use of recycled materials in construction.
§ 136-28.9 - Retainage - construction contracts.
§ 136-28.10 - Highway Fund and Highway Trust Fund Small Project Bidding.
§ 136-28.11 - Design-build construction of transportation projects.
§ 136-28.12 - Litter removal coordinated with mowing of highway rights-of-way.
§ 136-28.13 - Participation in the energy credit banking and selling program.
§ 136-28.14 - Project contractor licensing requirements.
§ 136-28.15 - Diesel vehicles purchase warranty requirement.
§ 136-29 - Adjustment and resolution of Department of Transportation contract claim.
§ 136-30.1 - Center line and pavement edge line markings.
§ 136-32 - Regulation of signs.
§ 136-32.1 - Misleading signs prohibited.
§ 136-32.2 - Placing blinding, deceptive or distracting lights unlawful.
§ 136-32.3 - Litter enforcement signs.
§ 136-33 - Damaging or removing signs; rewards.
§ 136-33.1 - Signs for protection of cattle.
§ 136-33.2A - Signs marking beginning of reduced speed zones.
§ 136-34 - Department of Transportation authorized to furnish road equipment to municipalities.
§ 136-35 - Cooperation with other states and federal government.
§ 136-41.1 - Appropriation to municipalities; allocation of funds generally; allocation to Butner.
§ 136-41.2 - Eligibility for funds; municipalities incorporated since January 1, 1945.
§ 136-41.2A - Eligibility for funds; municipalities incorporated before January 1, 1945.
§ 136-41.2B - Eligibility for funds; municipalities with no road miles ineligible.
§ 136-41.4 - Municipal use of allocated funds; election.
§ 136-41.5 - Annual report on use of Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning Grant funds.
§ 136-42 - Transferred to G.S.2 by Session Laws 1971, c345, s2.
§ 136-42.1 - Archaeological objects on highway right-of-way.
§ 136-42.2 - Markers on highway; cooperation of Department of Transportation.
§ 136-42.3 - Historical marker program.
§ 136-43 - Transferred to § 136-42.3 by Session Laws 1971, c345, s2.
§ 136-43.1 - Procedure for correction and relocation of historical markers.