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Section 58-15-10. Petition for incorporation of railroad, street railway, steamboat or canal company. - Three or more persons desiring to form themselves into a...
Section 58-15-20. Publication of notice of application. - If the corporation will have the power to condemn lands...
Section 58-15-30. Opponents of application may appear; action on application. - Any person desiring to oppose the application may appear and...
Section 58-15-40. Issuance of commission to incorporators; authorization for opening books of subscription after giving of notice. - Upon the filing of the declaration of the petitioners and...
Section 58-15-50. Manner in which subscriptions shall be payable; action against subscriber for failure to perform. - All subscriptions to the capital stock of any corporation organized...
Section 58-15-60. Organization of company. - When not less than fifty per cent of the capital...
Section 58-15-70. Filing and contents of incorporators' return. - Upon the completion of the organization of any such corporation,...
Section 58-15-80. Effect of failure to file return within twelve months. - Should no return as herein provided be made to the...
Section 58-15-90. Issuance of charter. - Upon the filing of the return and the payment of...
Section 58-15-100. Recordation and filing of charter and other documents. - The charter of any such corporation shall be recorded in...
Section 58-15-110. Effect of irregularity in incorporation. - No irregularity in complying with the provisions of Sections 58-15-10...
Section 58-15-120. Incorporators shall turn over subscription lists and other papers to corporation. - Upon the issuance of a charter by the Secretary of...
Section 58-15-130. Forfeiture of charter for failure to commence or complete construction or operation within certain time. - A railroad, street railway or canal company organized under this...
Section 58-15-140. Capital stock shall not be issued until price paid; exception. - No capital stock shall be issued by any corporation organized...
Section 58-15-150. Railroads may issue no par common stock. - A railroad corporation may issue common stock in shares having...
Section 58-15-160. Manner in which charters may be amended. - Any corporation organized under the provisions of this article or...
Section 58-15-170. Stockholders' meeting shall authorize amendment. - Any railroad, steamboat, street railway or canal company in this...
Section 58-15-180. Stockholders' preemptive right. - When any corporation organized under the provisions of this chapter...
Section 58-15-190. Duration of charters. - All charters granted under the provisions of this article shall...
Section 58-15-200. Fees shall be paid into State Treasury. - All fees collected by the Secretary of State in accordance...
Section 58-15-210. Charters subject to repeal, alteration or amendment. - Any such charter shall be subject to repeal, alteration or...
Section 58-15-220. Reserved right of taxation. - The State reserves the right to declare its policy in...
Section 58-15-240. Fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void. - Neither stocks nor bonds shall be issued by any corporation...
Section 58-15-250. Stockholder entitled to one vote for each share of stock held or owned by him. - At all stockholders' meetings each stockholder shall be entitled to...
Section 58-15-260. Stock transfer shall be valid, except between parties, only if entered on corporation's books. - No transfer of stock of a corporation organized under this...
Section 58-15-270. Stockholder's right to inspect books. - The books of any corporation organized under this chapter shall...
Section 58-15-410. Powers of canal companies. - When a canal company is organized under this chapter it...
Section 58-15-420. Rights to compensation for damages not affected. - Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any owner...
Section 58-15-430. Canal companies may mortgage property and franchises and issue bonds. - Any canal company organized under this chapter may mortgage its...
Section 58-15-440. State may acquire property of canal companies. - The State may acquire title to any property of any...
Section 58-15-450. Transfer or other disposition of canal rights of State. - No rights of the State in canals shall be transferred,...
Section 58-15-610. Steamboat companies may exact tolls for use of wharves or landings. - Any corporation organized under the provisions of this chapter or...
Section 58-15-710. Bicycles and baby carriages deemed baggage. - Bicycles and baby carriages shall be deemed baggage for the...
Section 58-15-720. Toilet facilities. - All first class coaches and cabins shall be provided with...
Section 58-15-810. Protection of private crossings over railroads. - Private roads crossing railroads shall be protected by the railroads...
Section 58-15-820. Wilful obstruction of railroad or electric railway. - A person who wilfully does or causes an action, or...
Section 58-15-830. Placing explosives on railroad rails. - It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to place...
Section 58-15-840. Taking or removing brasses, bearings, waste or packing from railroad cars. - Any person who shall wilfully and maliciously or with intent...
Section 58-15-850. Breaking and entering or shooting into cars. - Whoever breaks and enters, in the night, any railroad or...
Section 58-15-860. Injuring or destroying electric signals or other structures or mechanisms. - Whoever unlawfully and intentionally injures, molests or destroys any of...
Section 58-15-870. Injury to railroad or electric railway; penalties. - (A) It is unlawful for a person to wilfully and...
Section 58-15-875. Unlawful to purchase, sell, or transport railroad track materials for recycling; method of payment; penalties. - (A) It is unlawful to purchase, sell, or transport railroad...
Section 58-15-880. Riotous or disorderly conduct on trains; ejection. - Anyone who shall in any way be guilty of riotous...
Section 58-15-890. Use in advertisement of cross usually used as crossing sign by railroads. - It shall be unlawful for any person to use for...
Section 58-15-900. Making, selling or purchasing duplicate railroad switch keys. - It shall be unlawful for any person to make, buy,...
Section 58-15-910. Bell and whistle shall be installed on locomotives and sounded at crossings. - A bell of at least thirty pounds' weight and a...
Section 58-15-920. Lien of judgments for certain injuries. - Whenever a cause of action shall arise against any railroad...
Section 58-15-930. Liability of railroads having relief departments. - When any railroad company has what is usually called a...
Section 58-15-940. Fiscal year for railroads. - The fiscal year for which reports shall be made by...
Section 58-15-950. Reports to conform to fiscal year. - All reports required by law to be made by railroad...
Section 58-15-960. Time for filing annual reports. - All annual reports required to be filed with the Office...
Section 58-15-1110. Violation by railroads of Interstate Commerce Act shall be unlawful. - It shall be unlawful for any railroad corporation doing business...
Section 58-15-1120. County where violation deemed committed. - Every violation of the provisions of Section 58-15-1110 shall equally...
Section 58-15-1130. Taking part in violations shall be unlawful. - Every person taking part in any such violation in any...
Section 58-15-1140. Each violation shall constitute a separate offense. - Each act done in violation of such Act to Regulate...
Section 58-15-1510. Commission may provide rules and regulations with reference to crossing. - The Public Service Commission may provide such rules and regulations...
Section 58-15-1520. Investigation of crossings requiring overpass or underpass. - The commission upon petition may request the Office of Regulatory...
Section 58-15-1530. Payment of expense of elimination or relocation of grade crossings. - If the Commission shall decide that such a crossing should...
Section 58-15-1540. Eliminated crossings shall be closed. - Such crossings as are eliminated by virtue of this article...
Section 58-15-1610. Definitions. - (1) The term "grade crossing" as used in this article...
Section 58-15-1620. Application of article. - The provisions of this article shall apply throughout the State...
Section 58-15-1625. Department of Transportation authorized to eliminate railroad grade crossings. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Transportation...
Section 58-15-1630. Notice to railroad and effort to agree on plan for elimination of grade crossing. - Whenever any such subdivision or department of the State government...
Section 58-15-1640. Procedure when agreement shall not be reached. - Failing to agree, the department or subdivision may order the...
Section 58-15-1650. Railroad company may select materials; minimum standards. - The railroad company involved may select the material to be...
Section 58-15-1660. Division of costs. - The division of the costs of the elimination of the...
Section 58-15-1670. Specifications as to overhead bridges and approaches. - The grade of approaches to an overhead bridge shall be...
Section 58-15-1680. Underpasses and overhead bridges shall meet specifications of Department of Transportation. - Underpasses or overhead bridges constructed in accordance with this article...
Section 58-15-1690. Time within which railroad shall commence work; effect of failure so to do. - Whenever any department or subdivision shall require a railroad, under...
Section 58-15-1700. Appeal to Commission and to court. - Whenever any railroad company shall be required by an order...
Section 58-15-1710. Direct appeal to court. - Any railroad company may appeal to the courts from any...
Section 58-15-1720. Construction pending appeal. - When any railroad company appeals from a decision of the...
Section 58-15-1730. Continuance of crossings as private crossings. - All existing grade crossings replaced by grade separation structures or...
Section 58-15-1740. Special agreements. - Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent the...
Section 58-15-1910. Department of Transportation shall cooperate in relation to grade separation structures. - The Department of Transportation shall cooperate with any railroad company...
Section 58-15-1920. Necessity of work shall be determined by Department; notice to companies. - The necessity for any such reconstruction, changes or alterations shall...
Section 58-15-1930. Apportionment of costs. - The cost of effecting any reconstruction, changes or alterations as...
Section 58-15-1940. Grade separation structures to which article shall apply. - This article shall apply to all cases where grade separation...
Section 58-15-1950. Appeal to Supreme Court; stay of construction. - Any railroad company affected by any decision or action of...
Section 58-15-2110. Railroads shall construct and maintain grade crossings of highways. - (A) Whenever the public safety, convenience, or necessity so requires,...
Section 58-15-2120. Department of Transportation may make specifications and enter into agreements concerning grade crossings of State highways; penalties may be waived by Department. - In case of grade crossings of state highways over such...
Section 58-15-2130. Penalty for noncompliance. - Any person or corporation failing to comply with the provisions...
Section 58-15-2140. Article shall not affect certain penalties. - Unless waived as provided in Section 58-15-2120, the provisions of...