§ 3456 - Jurisdiction - Vermont Statutes

§ 3456. Jurisdiction

Without affecting special provisions of law relating to matters contained herein, the board shall have jurisdiction on due notice to hear, determine, render judgment, and make orders and decrees in all matters provided for in the charter of any railroad, or in the statutes of this state relating to railroads, and shall have like jurisdiction in all matters respecting:

(1) The crossing of one railroad by another;

(2) Highway grade crossings and signs, signals, gates or flaggers at the same;

(3) The construction and maintenance of proper fences, cattle guards and farm crossings;

(4) To the extent not preempted by federal law, the maintenance of the tracks, frogs, switches, gates, signals, culverts, bridges and other structures over openings, and rolling stock and equipment so as to accommodate the public and be operated with safety and in compliance with law;

(5) The connections, time and times of connection between connecting roads for the accommodation of the traveling public and the transportation of merchandise;

(6) The manner of operating railroads and conducting the business thereof so as to be reasonable and expedient and to promote the security, convenience and accommodation of the public and to prevent violations of law and unjust discriminations, usurpations or extortions; and

(7) Any impediment alongside or adjacent to the rights-of-way of railroads, including damaged structures, which imperils the safe passage of trains. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1981, No. 166 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 43.)