Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 7203 – Maintenance of railroad crossings already laid out
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 7203
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Railroad: includes every commercial, interurban and other railway and each and every branch and extension thereof by whatsoever power operated, together with all tracks, bridges, trestles, rights-of-way, subways, tunnels, stations, depots, union depots, ferries, yards, grounds, terminals, terminal facilities, structures and equipment and all other real estate, fixtures and personal property of every kind used in connection therewith, owned, controlled, operated or managed for public use in the transportation of persons or property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 5001
- Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
Notwithstanding any section of Part 7, in case of ways already laid out which cross over or under any railroad track or tracks and not at grade, the allocation of the expense of maintaining so much of the way as is within the limits of the railroad shall be determined, de novo, as provided by section 7202, by the Department of Transportation on application to it by any corporation whose track is or tracks are so crossed, or on application by the municipal officers of any town in which the crossing is located, or on application by the Department of Transportation. [PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW).