56-405.02 - Railroads to adjust certain public highways at grade crossings. - Virginia Statutes

§ 56-405.02. Railroads to adjust certain public highways at grade crossings.

When adjustments are made to railway trackage grade which crosses publicrights-of-way in use as a public highway or street in any locality, therailway company making such adjustments to their trackage shall also makeinitial adjustments to those public highways or streets so affected therebyto maintain a safe vertical relationship between trackage and street surfacesand to insure positive storm drainage such as existed prior to such repairs.After making such initial adjustments the responsibility for the continuingmaintenance of the areas within such public highways and streets so adjustedshall be controlled by § 56-405.

The cost of all such initial street improvements necessitated by railwaytrackage adjustments shall be the responsibility of the railway companymaking such initial adjustments irrespective of whether or not the streetimprovements extended beyond railway right-of-way.

(1984, c. 439; 1996, cc. 114, 157.)