Oklahoma § 66-125 - Signs at crossings - Neglect

§ 66-125. Signs at crossings - Neglect

In case any railroad corporation shall refuse or neglect, for a

space of thirty (30) days after notice given by the board of county

commissioners, to comply with the provisions of the preceding

section, it shall become the duty of the county commissioners of

each county through which any such railroad shall be in operation to

erect such signs, and the company shall be liable for all expenses

so incurred by said commissioners.

R.L. 1910, § 1429.

§66-125a. Railroads - Highway crossings - Safety devices.

Whenever the public authorities having jurisdiction and control

over any public highway or street in this state shall deem that the

safety of lives and property at any railroad intersection with any

highway or street, shall so require, such public authorities as are

hereby authorized and empowered to construct or install, or to order

the company owning such railroad so intersected, to construct or

install, and thereafter maintain and operate, an automatic or

mechanically operated barricading device, which, when giving

warning, shall become a barrier in such highway or street; provided,

however, that before any such device is constructed or installed,

maintained and operated at a railroad intersection, the detailed

plans of such device, with a description of the proposed mode of

operation thereof, and a map showing the proposed location of the

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same, shall be first submitted to, and approved by, the State

Highway Commission of Oklahoma.

Laws 1937, p. 398, § 1, emerg. eff. May 25, 1937.

§66-125b. Warning signs.

Whenever said barricading device shall be constructed or

installed and maintained and operated, the public authorities having

jurisdiction and control over the highway or street at such point

shall erect and maintain a reflector warning sign with appropriate

words thereon. If said barricading device is located at a railroad

crossing, said warning shall be installed and maintained not less

than four hundred (400) feet from the crossing, when said crossing

is located on highways or streets where vehicular traffic is

permitted to travel at speeds in excess of thirty (30) miles per

hour; and not less than two hundred (200) feet from the crossing,

when said crossing is located on highways or streets where vehicular

traffic is permitted to travel at speeds not in excess of thirty

(30) miles per hour. It shall be the duty of the driver of any

vehicle, on approaching such warning sign, to place his vehicle

under such control as to be able to bring such vehicle to a complete

stop at a distance of not less than seventy-five (75) feet in

advance of the crossing. The colliding of a vehicle with the

barricading device at a crossing shall be prima facie evidence that

the driver thereof did not comply with the provisions of this act,

and such driver shall be deemed a reckless driver, and be subjected

to the penalties provided for reckless driving under the motor

vehicle laws of this state, and shall be liable for any damage done

to such barricading device on account of such collision.

Laws 1937, p. 398, § 2, emerg. eff. May 25, 1937.

§66-125c. Expenses of construction.

The public authorities, or the political subdivision of the

state, having jurisdiction and control over any public highway or

street in which such barricading device is constructed or installed,

maintained and operated, may expend public funds to pay the cost and

expense thereof; provided, however, that the parties in interest may

agree in writing otherwise.

Laws 1937, p. 399, § 3, emerg. eff. May 25, 1937.

§66-125d. Cooperation with federal government.

The public authorities, or political subdivision of the state or

the Highway Commission of the state are authorized to cooperate with

the federal government in the construction, or installing,

maintaining and operating such barricading devices and other safety

devices.

Laws 1937, p. 399, § 4, emerg. eff. May 25, 1937.

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