CHAPTER 6. Railroad Crossings

Chapter 6 enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.

§§ 1201–1220 · 31 sections

§ 1201 No public road, highway, or street shall be constructed across the track of any railroad corporation at grade, nor shall the track of any railroad corporation…
§ 1201.1 The commission, in consultation with the Department of Transportation, shall adopt rules and regulations prescribing uniform standards regarding the time after…
§ 1201.2 An application for a railroad crossing submitted pursuant to Sections 1201 to 1205, inclusive, shall, at a minimum, include all of the following information:…
§ 1202 The commission has the exclusive power: (a) To determine and prescribe the manner, including the particular point of crossing, and the terms of installation,…
§ 1202.05 (a) To the extent permitted by federal law or regulation, the commission shall develop and implement a pilot or limited demonstration and research project for…
§ 1202.1 In any proceeding under Section 1202, where the application to the commission states that the parties are not in agreement as to apportionment of costs, but…
§ 1202.2 In apportioning the cost of maintenance of automatic grade-crossing protection constructed or altered after October 1, 1965 under Section 1202, as between the…
§ 1202.3 Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any proceeding under Section 1202, in the case of a crossing involving a publicly used road or highway…
§ 1202.4 If a city or county develops and adopts, by resolution upon a majority vote of the city council or the board of supervisors, a plan to improve mobility for…
§ 1202.5 In prescribing the proportions in which the expense of construction, reconstruction, alteration, or relocation of grade separations shall be divided between…
§ 1202.6 Any municipal corporation, transit district, rapid transit district, or other public entity which provides rail passenger transportation services through a…
§ 1202.7 Whenever existing automatic grade-crossing safety signal equipment that was installed within the previous 10 years is planned for removal due to upgrade or…
§ 1203 Each corporation and political subdivision to which any of the expense is apportioned shall pay from the funds available therefor in its treasury the amount…
§ 1204 If the legislative body of the political subdivision determines that special benefits will accrue from the separation of grades to one or more districts within…
§ 1205 If any order of the commission provides for the payment of a portion of the cost of any such grade separation by a political subdivision without authorizing…
§ 1205.5 (a) The commission, upon initiating a ratesetting proceeding, shall determine whether the proceeding is an exempt railroad crossing application. If the…
§ 1206 The commission may fix the just compensation to be paid for property or any interest in or to property to be taken or damaged in the separation of grades at…
§ 1207 Proceedings under Section 1206 may be commenced by order on the commission’s own motion or by a petition filed by the State, county, city and county, city,…
§ 1208 Upon the filing of the petition or the making of the order on the commission’s own motion, the commission shall make its order to show cause. The order shall…
§ 1209 Personal service shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure or by depositing a copy of the order to show cause certified…
§ 1210 If any owner or claimant named in the petition or order on the commission’s own motion resides out of the State or has departed from the State or cannot after…
§ 1211 Within 10 days prior to the time set for the first hearing on the petition or order on the commission’s own motion, which time shall be not less than 30 days…
§ 1212 The commission at any time subsequent to the filing of the petition, and prior to making and filing its finding of just compensation, may authorize the…
§ 1213 At the time and place specified in the order to show cause, or at such other time and place as, for good cause, is otherwise ordered by the commission, the…
§ 1214 The commission shall also make its order designating the party or parties to the proceeding who shall pay the just compensation so fixed, or any portion…
§ 1215 When the just compensation has been paid in accordance with the commission’s order, the commission shall make its final order of condemnation which shall…
§ 1216 (a) The finding of the commission on the question of the necessity for the taking and the finding fixing the just compensation to be paid for any property or…
§ 1217 The procedure provided in this chapter shall be alternative and cumulative and not exclusive to the right to pursue any other procedure providing for the…
§ 1218 Nothing in this chapter shall entitle any owner or claimant of property and interest in or to property to receive damages when the right to receive such…
§ 1219 The Legislature declares that Sections 1201 to 1205, inclusive, are enacted as germane and cognate parts of and as aids to the jurisdiction vested in the…
§ 1220 The Legislature declares that Sections 1206 to 1218, inclusive, are enacted as a germane and cognate part of and as an aid to the jurisdiction of the…