§ 8-6-14-1 — Authority for establishment; plans and specifications

Owners of tracts of land separated by the right
of way of a railway company, or owner of a tract or tracts of land
separated by the right of way of a railway company from a public
highway or road, lying and situated immediately contiguous to and
adjoining said right of way, may, if such right of way has been or shall
hereafter be acquired by condemnation and appropriation, or by
purchase or donation, construct and maintain wagon and driveways
over and across such right of way leading from one of such tracts to
another on the opposite side of such right of way, or leading from such
tract or tracts of land on one (1) side to the highway on the other side
of the right of way, at any point most convenient to such owner. For
this purpose, such owner may enter upon such right of way and
construct such embankment, or make such excavation, on one (1) or
both sides of the track of such railway as may be necessary to establish
easy grades from one (1) tract of land to the opposite tract or highway,
and may spike planks on the ties of such railway on the line of such
way for the space of the width of such way, of such thickness as not to
be elevated above the top of the rails of such railway, and may also
bridge the gutters at the sides of such railway track in such manner as
not to obstruct the flow of water therein: Provided, The railroad
company shall make the crossing.
Formerly: Acts 1885(ss), c.44, s.1; Acts 1899, c.212,
s.1.