O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 32-6-198 (2019)

Agreements as to grade crossing elimination

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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Nothing in this part shall be construed to prevent the department, a county, or a municipality from reaching special agreements with a railroad company providing for grade crossing elimination by means of relocation of either the railroad or public road involved or by other means not expressly provided for in this part and from arranging joint participation in the cost of such elimination in accordance with the procedures in Code Section 32-6-195.

History

Ga. L. 1927, p. 299, § 12; Code 1933, § 95-1912; Code 1933,

§ 95A-1012, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Railroad may enter agreement to pay less than half of costs. - Railroad and the State Highway Department (now Department of Transportation) may agree

for joint participation in the cost of elimination of a grade crossing on the basis of less than 50 percent to the railroad. 1945-47 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 616.