O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-8-105 (2019)

Effect of adoption of Code Section 46-8-104 by railroad corporations not chartered by General Assembly

✓ 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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Any public or private railroad availing itself of the privileges of Code Section 46-8-104 shall be subject to such restrictions, liabilities, and penalties as to crossings, and shall be governed by such rules as to crossings, as are provided by law for chartered railroads, provided that where any tram or unchartered road crosses a chartered road, that the company owning or operating the tram or unchartered road may be required to put in the necessary and proper safety switches and signal service on both sides of the chartered road.

History

(Ga. L. 1899, p. 31, § 2; Civil Code 1910, § 2672; Code 1933, § 94-502.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Central of Ga. R.R. v. Schnadig Corp., 139 Ga. App. 193, 228 S.E.2d 165 (1976). RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 65 Am. Jur. 2d, Railroads, §§ 271, 273. C.J.S. - 74 C.J.S., Railroads, §§ 306 et seq., 766, 816 et seq., 821 et seq. ALR. - Validity and construction of railroad stop statute, 2 ALR 156.

Extent and character of use of farm or other private crossing over railroad right of way, 139 ALR 460.