Indiana § 8-6-2.1-4 Preparation of maps and plans

Indiana Statutes

§ 8-6-2.1-4 — Preparation of maps and plans

Indiana § 8-6-2.1-4

Art. 6RAILROAD CROSSINGS

Ch. 2.1Railroad Grade Crossing Separations

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(a)Whenever the board of any city determines that public necessity and convenience require the separation or alteration of the grade of any highway and any railroad at their intersection in the city, it shall order the preparation of general maps, and plans and specifications comprehending all work and changes necessary or incidental to the improvement, including the opening, widening, change, vacation, elevation, depression or reconstruction of any highway, and the elevation, depression, removal, relocation, construction or reconstruction of the track, roadbed, yards, station, or other facilities of any railroad, and also a description of all lands, rights-of-way and other property necessary to be acquired in connection with the improvement, and the manner in which they are to be acquire

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(a) Whenever the board of any city determines
that public necessity and convenience require the separation or
alteration of the grade of any highway and any railroad at their
intersection in the city, it shall order the preparation of general maps,
and plans and specifications comprehending all work and changes
necessary or incidental to the improvement, including the opening,
widening, change, vacation, elevation, depression or reconstruction of
any highway, and the elevation, depression, removal, relocation,
construction or reconstruction of the track, roadbed, yards, station, or
other facilities of any railroad, and also a description of all lands,
rights-of-way and other property necessary to be acquired in connection
with the improvement, and the manner in which they are to be
acquired, whether by purchase or by appropriation, together with an
estimate of the total cost to be incurred in connection with the
improvement, as the total cost is defined by this chapter.
(b) If the maps, plans and specifications provide for the
abandonment for railroad purposes of any right-of-way, land or other
property owned or used or occupied for railroad purposes by any
railroad company, and the removal of any track, roadbed, yard, station
or other facilities, requires the relocation and reconstruction of the
facilities, or any part of them, the board, prior to the adoption of the
resolution for the improvement, shall enter into an agreement or
agreements with the railroad company affected, for adjustment of the
costs and losses occasioned by the removal, relocation and
reconstruction, and the value of all the property abandoned for railroad
purposes and reclaimed for other uses, the apportionment of the
adjusted costs, losses and values between the railroads affected and the
city, and other matters necessarily related.
(c) Cost adjustments required by this chapter are governed by IC 8-6-3, the provisions of which are incorporated in this chapter by
reference.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation:
19-5-14-4.]
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.8, SEC.70.