Rhode Island § 39-4-18 § 39-4-18. Review of grade crossing ordinances.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 39-4-18 — § 39-4-18. Review of grade crossing ordinances.

Rhode Island § 39-4-18

Title 39Public Utilities and Carriers

Ch. 39-4Hearings and Investigations

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 39-4-18 (2026).

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§ 39-4-18. Review of grade crossing ordinances.
All orders, decisions, requests, or ordinances hereafter made by any town or city
            council under the provisions of §§ 39-8-2, 39-8-3, and 39-8-12, shall be subject to the supervision and control of the division as provided in this
            section. Upon the written complaint of any public utility, or by ten (10) qualified
            electors, residents of the town or city, the order of whose town or city council shall
            be drawn in question, upon the ground that the order, decision, request, or ordinance
            is unreasonable, the division shall set a hearing as provided in § 39-4-4, and if the commission shall find that the order, decision, 

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§ 39-4-18. Review of grade crossing ordinances.

All orders, decisions, requests, or ordinances hereafter made by any town or city council under the provisions of §§ 39-8-2, 39-8-3, and 39-8-12, shall be subject to the supervision and control of the division as provided in this section. Upon the written complaint of any public utility, or by ten (10) qualified electors, residents of the town or city, the order of whose town or city council shall be drawn in question, upon the ground that the order, decision, request, or ordinance is unreasonable, the division shall set a hearing as provided in § 39-4-4, and if the commission shall find that the order, decision, request, or ordinance is unreasonable, the order, decision, request, or ordinance shall be void; provided, that nothing in this chapter shall be construed to take away or limit the existing powers of the town or city councils to abolish grade crossings.

Legislative History

P.L. 1912, ch. 795, § 54; G.L. 1923, ch. 253, § 53; G.L. 1938, ch. 122, § 50; impl. am. P.L. 1949, ch. 2174, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 39-4-18; P.L. 1969, ch. 240, § 7; P.L. 1997, ch. 326, § 107.