§ 39-7-1 Minimum clearance on bridges erected over tracks
§ 39-7-2 Blocking of frogs, switches, and guardrails
§ 39-7-3 Brakes on passenger cars
§ 39-7-4 Passenger cars not to be followed by cars loaded with dirt or stone
§ 39-7-5 Method of illuminating passenger cars – Fire equipment
§ 39-7-6 Heating of cars
§ 39-7-7 Water in passenger cars
§ 39-7-8 Ejection of disorderly or nonpaying passengers
§ 39-7-9 Approach of railroad junctions or drawbridges
§ 39-7-10 Whistles in vicinity of Hamlet station
§ 39-7-11 Maintenance of margins on yard tracks
§ 39-7-12 Catwalks and handrails on bridges
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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 39-7 - Operation of Railroads Generally

  • Company: means and includes a person, firm, partnership, corporation, quasi-municipal corporation, association, joint-stock association or company, and his, her, its, or their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • 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.
  • Division: means the division of public utilities and carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
  • in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Railroad: means and includes every railroad other than a street railway, by whatsoever power, operated for public use in the conveyance in this state of persons or property for compensation, with all bridges, ferries, tunnels, switches, spurs, tracks, stations, wharves, and terminal facilities of every kind, used, operated, controlled, leased, or owned by or in connection with any railroad. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2