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Tit. XVI, Ch. 5. INTERURBAN RAILWAYS. §§ 5241-5241-al.
7 tion thereof, be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or less than
8 five hundred dollars for each offense.
[39 G. A., ch. 285, § 7.]
CHAPTER 5.
INTERURBAN RAILWAYS.
SECTION 5241. Grade crossings—duties of employees—penalty.
1 Wherever the tracks of an interurban railway cross the tracks
2 of any steam railway at grade the steam railway shall have, except
3 where required to stop by order of the board of railroad commission-
4 ers, the right of way and not be compelled to stop its trains and the
5 interurban railway company operating said line shall cause its cars
6 to come to a full stop not nearer than ten feet nor farther than fifty
7 feet from such crossing, and before proceeding to cross said steam
8 railway tracks shall cause some person in its employ first to cross said
9 track ahead of said car or cars and ascertain if the way is clear and
10 free from danger for the passage of said interurban cars, and said
11 interurban cars shall not proceed to cross until signalled to do so by
12 such person employed as aforesaid, or said way is clear for such pas-
13 sage over said tracks. Every person in charge of any interurban car
14 or cars, who wilfully fails to comply with the provisions hereof and
15 fails to bring the car or cars which he has in charge to a stop, or
16 causes the same to cross said steam railway tracks before the way is
17 clear, or he is signalled to do so, shall be subject to a fine of not less
18 than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars or im-
19 prisonment in the county jail not to exceed twelve months, in the dis-
20 cretion of the court. No steam railway shall obstruct the free passage
21 of the cars of an intersecting interurban railway at such crossing.
[S., '13, § 2033-e; 39 G. A., ch. 34, § 1.]
SEC. 5241-al. Bight of steam and interurban railways at grade
crossing.
1 The board of railroad commissioners of the state of Iowa is here-
2 by granted jurisdiction over all crossings at grade of steam and inter-
3 urban railways within the state. Upon the application of any inter-
4 urban railway, or upon its own motion, the said board may require
5 the trains of any steam railway to stop at any such crossing or cross-
6 ings at grade, or said board may make such rules and regulations in
7 reference to speed or other methods of operation at such crossings
8 as in its judgment are necessary to protect the public safety. This
9 section is to be construed as an exception to the general rule as laid
10 down in section fifty-two hundred thirty-seven of the compiled code,
11 with reference to interurbans being street railways within cities and
12 towns.
[39 G. A., ch. 34, §§ 2, 3.]