                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RAILROADS TO ADJUST CERTAIN PUBLIC HIGHWAYS AT GRADE CROSSINGS (§ 56-405.02)

When adjustments are made to railway trackage grade which crosses public
rights-of-way in use as a public highway or street in any locality, the railway
company making such adjustments to their trackage shall also make initial
adjustments to those public highways or streets so affected thereby to maintain
a safe vertical relationship between trackage and street surfaces and to insure
positive storm drainage such as existed prior to such repairs. After making such
initial adjustments the responsibility for the continuing maintenance of the
areas within such public highways and streets so adjusted shall be controlled by
§ 56-405.
		The cost of all such initial street improvements necessitated by railway
trackage adjustments shall be the responsibility of the railway company making
such initial adjustments irrespective of whether or not the street improvements
extended beyond railway right-of-way.

HISTORY: 1984, c. 439; 1996, cc. 114, 157.