Lindsay Municipal Code § 10.12 Trains

It is unlawful for any railroad company or corporation, agent or employee of any railroad company or corporation in charge of or operating any engine, locomotive, train, electric car or coach or railroad car or coach over or across those certain streets within the city designated as Lewis, Honolulu, Hermosa and Tulare Avenues to operate the train at a greater speed than twenty miles per hour over such streets, between the hours of five a.m. and eleven p.m., or to operate them at a greater speed than thirty miles per hour over the street between the hours of eleven p.m. and five a.m.

(Prior code § 15-22)

It is unlawful for any railroad company or corporation, agent or employee of any railroad company or corporation in charge of or operating any engine, locomotive, train, electric car or coach, or railroad car or coach, to permit the train to remain over or across any public street or road crossing within the city so as to block the traffic at the crossings and prevent free passage over the crossings along any public street or road within the city for a longer period than ten minutes without clearing the crossing to permit all vehicles standing at the crossing to pass over and across it.

(Prior code § 18-1)

1. Unless otherwise provided by contract made between the railroad and the City of Lindsay, it shall be the duty of all railroad companies or entities owning or operating and maintaining a railroad passing through the City of Lindsay to place, keep, or maintain crossings, and all places within their right-of-way where public highways, streets, or alleys of the City of Lindsay intersect and cross any of the railroad tracks, in a suitable and safe condition for public travel over and across the same.
2. If railroad facilities are at any time abandoned and removed, it shall be the duty of the railroad company or entity owning or operating and maintaining the crossing to remove the rails through the crossing at the same time as the remainder of the rails are removed and to reconstruct the crossing in the same manner as the remaining portions of the City of Lindsay highways, streets, or alleys are paved, or in such other manner and with such other materials as shall be required by the City of Lindsay's development standards, and in a suitable and safe condition for public travel. This shall include extending curb, gutter, and/or sidewalk if they exist adjacent to said crossing. The term "crossing," as used in this chapter, shall include viaducts and roadways under or over the tracks of any railroad.
3. If any railroad crossing shall be at any time in bad condition or unsafe or inconvenient for public travel, the city council, upon recommendation of the city engineer, may, by ordinance, resolution, or motion call upon the proper railroad company to repair or replace the crossing and render the same safe and convenient for public travel. Unless otherwise ordered by the city council, all railroad crossing replacements shall be made with steel rails or steel plates. A copy of every such ordinance, resolution, or motion shall be served upon the local agent of the railroad company whose duty it is to maintain such crossings; and for a failure or refusal to comply with such resolution within thirty days after the service thereof, as aforesaid, such railroad company shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
4. Whenever any highway, street, or alley upon, along or through which any railroad track is laid, shall be ordered paved by the city council, it shall be the duty of the railroad entity owning or operating such railroad track to pave all that portion of the highway, street, or alley, including in the space between the rails of its track or tracks, and for one foot on the outer edge of the rails, in the same manner as the remaining portions thereof are paved, or in such other manner and with such other materials as shall be required by the City of Lindsay's development standards. In the case of any default on the part of such company to comply with this requirement, the city council may cause such railroad track or tracks to be taken up, and pavement to be laid pursuant to the City of Lindsay's development standards, and every such railroad company shall be liable to the City of Lindsay of the cost and expense of paving such portion of the highway, street, or alley, together with lawful interest thereon from the completion of the work. This shall include extending curb, gutter, and/or sidewalk through the crossing if they exist adjacent to said crossing.

(Ord. 527 Art. 5, 2009)