5733.43 Credit for maintenance of active grade crossing warning devices. - Ohio Statutes

5733.43 Credit for maintenance of active grade crossing warning devices.

(A) As used in this section:

(1) “Railroad company” means a railroad as defined in section 4907.02 of the Revised Code that is subject to the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code.

(2) “Active grade crossing warning device” means signs, signals, gates, or other protective devices erected or installed at a public highway-railway crossing at common grade and activated by an electrical circuit.

(3) “Annual maintenance expenditures” means expenditures made by a railroad company to maintain active grade crossing warning devices.

(B) There is hereby granted to railroad companies a credit against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for the maintenance of active grade crossing warning devices in this state. The credit shall equal ten per cent of the sum of the annual maintenance expenditures for each active grade crossing warning device for which such expenditures were made during the taxable year, not to exceed two hundred dollars for each device in this state for which such expenditures were made during the taxable year. The credit shall be claimed in the order prescribed by section 5733.98 of the Revised Code. The credit shall not exceed the amount of tax otherwise due under section 5733.06 of the Revised Code after deducting any other credits that precede the credit claimed under this section in that order.

(C) A railroad company claiming the credit under this section shall compile records of the annual maintenance expenditures for which the credit was claimed and shall keep those records for a period of four years following the end of the tax year for which the credit is claimed. The records shall be open to inspection to the tax commissioner upon the tax commissioner’s request.

Effective Date: 09-29-1999