O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-16-102 (2019)

All railroad laws to apply

✓ 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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All the public road laws and penal laws touching the railroads of this state, whether to obligate or protect, apply to the state railroad unless specially excepted or some other provision is prescribed in lieu of some one or more thereof.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 890; Code 1868, § 969; Code 1873, § 965; Code 1882, § 965; Civil Code 1895, § 1022; Civil Code 1910, § 1289; Code 1933, § 91-203.

Annotations

Cross references. - Regulation of railroads generally, T. 46, C. 8 and 9.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Railroad’s public liability. - Western & Atlantic Railroad is not absolved from liability to public which arises from the exercise of the railroad’s franchise to operate a railroad and to run trains along

its tracks by leasing, with legislative authority and approval, the use of the railroads tracks to another railroad company, when there is no legislative exemption of the Western & Atlantic Railroad from any

liability to the public arising from the use of the railroad’s tracks by the lessee railroad. Bennett v. Western & A.R.R., 42 Ga. App. 821, 157 S.E. 365 (1931).

Cited in Western & A.R.R. v. Gray, 172 Ga. 286, 157 S.E. 482 (1931).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1999–1999 · leading case: City of Marietta v. CSX Transp., Inc., 196 F.3d 1300 (11th Cir. 1999).
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City of Marietta v. CSX Transp., Inc., 196 F.3d 1300 (11th Cir. 1999). “…state railroad unless specially excepted or some other provision is prescribed in lieu of some one or more thereof. O.C.G.A. § 50-16-102.”
Marietta v. CSX Transp., 196 F.3d 1300 (11th Cir. 1999). “O.C.G.A. § 50-16-102. 19 This case, which has important policy implications, thus turns on a question of unsettled Georgia law.”
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