§ 19-290. Railroad trains not to block streets.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for the directing officer or the operator of any railroad train to operate the train in such a manner as to prevent the use of the street for purposes of travel for a period of time longer than five (5) minutes. It shall be a defense to prosecution under this section that the train, other than a switch engine, was in motion at a speed of more than three (3) miles per hour during all or a part of the period of blocking travel and was not standing for five (5) minutes or more.

(b)

It shall be unlawful for the directing officer or the operator of any railroad train to operate the train in such a manner that a street, blocked by a train so as to prevent its use for travel, is a second time blocked without the intervention of a period of at least five (5) minutes during which such street shall be open to travel.

(Code 1950, § 46-17; Ord. No. 25882, § 1, 12-19-57; Code 1959, §§ 33-3, 33-59)

State law reference

Similar provisions, Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. art. 6701d-5.