§ 136-20.1. To require installation and maintenance of block system and safety devices; automatic signals at railroad intersections. - North Carolina Statutes

§136‑20.1.  To require installation and maintenance of block system andsafety devices; automatic signals at railroad intersections.

(a)        The Department ofTransportation is empowered and directed to require any railroad company toinstall and put in operation and maintain upon the whole or any part of itsroad a block system of telegraphy or any other reasonable safety device, but norailroad company shall be required to install a block system upon any part ofits road unless at least eight trains each way per day are operated on thatpart.

(b)        The Department ofTransportation is empowered and directed to require, when public safetydemands, where two or more railroads cross each other at a common grade, or anyrailroad crosses any stream or harbor by means of a bridge, to install andmaintain such a system of interlocking or automatic signals as will render itsafe for engines and trains to pass over such crossings or bridge withoutstopping, and to apportion the cost of installation and maintenance betweensaid railroads as may be just and proper. (1907, c. 469, s. 1b; 1911,c. 197, s. 2; Ex. Sess. 1913, c. 63, s. 1; C.S., ss. 1047, 1049; 1933, c. 134,s. 8; 1941, c. 97; 1963, c. 1165, s. 1; 1995 (Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 673, s. 5.)