Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 72 > Chapter 17 > Part 2 - Regulation of Highway-Railroad Grade Crossings

• Commission: means the Transportation Commission created under Section 72-1-301. See Utah Code 72-1-102
• Construction: means the construction, reconstruction, replacement, and improvement of the highways, including the acquisition of rights-of-way and material sites. See Utah Code 72-1-102
• Department: means the Department of Transportation created in Section 72-1-201. See Utah Code 72-1-102
• Highway: means any public road, street, alley, lane, court, place, viaduct, tunnel, culvert, bridge, or structure laid out or erected for public use, or dedicated or abandoned to the public, or made public in an action for the partition of real property, including the entire area within the right-of-way. See Utah Code 72-1-102
• Highway authority: means the department or the legislative, executive, or governing body of a county or municipality. See Utah Code 72-1-102
• Highway-railroad grade crossing: means :
       (1)(a) an intersection where a railroad track crosses a highway at the same level; or
       (1)(b) an intersection where the railroad track of a railroad entity crosses the railroad track of another railroad entity at the same level. See Utah Code 72-17-201
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Person: means :
       (24)(a) an individual;
       (24)(b) an association;
       (24)(c) an institution;
       (24)(d) a corporation;
       (24)(e) a company;
       (24)(f) a trust;
       (24)(g) a limited liability company;
       (24)(h) a partnership;
       (24)(i) a political subdivision;
       (24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and
       (24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Public Service Commission: means the Public Service Commission of Utah created in Section 54-1-1. See Utah Code 72-17-201
• Public transit: means the same as that term is defined in Section 17B-2a-802. See Utah Code 72-1-102
• Railroad: means the same as that term is defined in Utah Code 72-17-102
• Railroad entity: means an entity, a company, a person, or a public transit provider that owns, controls, operates, or manages a railroad. See Utah Code 72-17-201
• Right-of-way: means real property or an interest in real property, usually in a strip, acquired for or devoted to state transportation purposes. See Utah Code 72-1-102
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5