§ 3785 — Alterations, crossings; order by Transportation Board

When the Transportation Board, in the absence of any application, is of the opinion that the public safety requires an alteration in any highway crossed at grade by a railroad, or by railroads belonging to or operated by more than one corporation, or an alteration in lands or buildings on land adjoining or near the highway at or near such crossing in order to afford proper view from the approaches to the crossing, in each direction, of the track or tracks of the railroad or railroads, after hearing had on notice of not less than 10 days to the corporation or corporations owning or operating the railroad or railroads, to the selectboard of the town within which the highway is situated, to the owners of the land adjoining the crossing and the owners of the land or buildings on the adjoining land, or near such highway as may be required for or materially affected by a proposed alteration, and to the Attorney General, who, as the Attorney General or through the State’s Attorney of the county in which the crossing is located shall represent the interests of the State, it may order alterations in the highway, and the removal of obstructions to the view in each direction of the tracks of the railroads, as it deems best, and shall determine and direct by whom, at whose expense and within what time alterations and removals shall be made. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 64; 2021, No. 105 (Adj. Sess.), § 44, eff. July 1, 2022.)