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1994 SESSION
HB 1054 Railroads.
Introduced by: V. Earl Dickinson | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Railroads. Requires that railroad-constructed wagonways provided for owners of land abutting railroad tracks be (i) adequate to accommodate all sorts of vehicles used for agricultural or forestal purposes, (ii) constructed in accordance with specific minimum engineering standards, and (iii) maintained in good repair; increases railroads' payment to landowners for failure to construct or maintain wagonways from $5 per day to $100 per day; increases pay of commissioners appointed to determine the need to construct a wagonway from $2 per day to $50 per day; provides that certain wagonways in continuous use for 20 years are subject to prescriptive easements in favor of the abutting landowners; eliminates requirement that certain tracts of land to be connected by a wagonway be owned by the same person; authorizes courts to grant equitable relief when fences or cattle guards are not built when required; increases payments to appraisers of livestock killed or injured by trains from $1 to $50 and increases clerk's fee for filing the appraisal from 50¢ to $2.50; requires that the minimum appraised value of cattle killed by trains be 1 1/2 times their meat value; and provides that failure to report the killing or injury of cattle by a train within 72 hours constitutes larceny of the dead or injured animal.
FULL TEXT
- 01/25/94 House: Presented and ordered printed pdf
- 02/03/94 House: Committee substitute printed LD8827208 (HB1054H1) pdf
- 03/10/94 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1054ER) pdf
- 04/07/94 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/25/94 House: Presented and ordered printed
- 01/25/94 House: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 02/03/94 House: Reported from R. & I. N. w/sub. (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/94 House: Committee substitute printed LD8827208 (HB1054H1)
- 02/04/94 House: Read first time
- 02/07/94 House: Read second time
- 02/07/94 House: Committee substitute agreed to
- 02/07/94 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/08/94 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/94 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/94 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/09/94 Senate: Read first time
- 02/09/94 Senate: Referred to Committee on Transportation
- 02/24/94 Senate: Reported from Transportation (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/94 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/94 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/94 Senate: Read third time
- 02/28/94 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/94 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/10/94 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1054ER)
- 03/16/94 House: Enrolled
- 03/17/94 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/18/94 House: Signed by Speaker
- 04/05/94 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 352 (effective 7/1/94)
- 04/07/94 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352)