Sec. 4. (a) Whenever the board of any city determines that public necessity and convenience require the separation or alteration of the grade of any highway and any railroad at their intersection in the city, it shall order the preparation of general maps, and plans and specifications comprehending all work and changes necessary or incidental to the improvement, including the opening, widening, change, vacation, elevation, depression or reconstruction of any highway, and the elevation, depression, removal, relocation, construction or reconstruction of the track, roadbed, yards, station, or other facilities of any railroad, and also a description of all lands, rights-of-way and other property necessary to be acquired in connection with the improvement, and the manner in which they are to be acquired, whether by purchase or by appropriation, together with an estimate of the total cost to be incurred in connection with the improvement, as the total cost is defined by this chapter.

     (b) If the maps, plans and specifications provide for the abandonment for railroad purposes of any right-of-way, land or other property owned or used or occupied for railroad purposes by any railroad company, and the removal of any track, roadbed, yard, station or other facilities, requires the relocation and reconstruction of the facilities, or any part of them, the board, prior to the adoption of the resolution for the improvement, shall enter into an agreement or agreements with the railroad company affected, for adjustment of the costs and losses occasioned by the removal, relocation and reconstruction, and the value of all the property abandoned for railroad purposes and reclaimed for other uses, the apportionment of the adjusted costs, losses and values between the railroads affected and the city, and other matters necessarily related.

     (c) Cost adjustments required by this chapter are governed by IC 8-6-3, the provisions of which are incorporated in this chapter by reference.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-5-14-4.]

As added by Acts 1980, P.L.8, SEC.70.