PART IX. 
SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED



 



§291C-91  Obedience to signal indicating
approach of train.  (a)  Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches a
railroad grade crossing under any of the circumstances stated in this section,
the driver of the vehicle shall stop within fifty feet but not less than
fifteen feet from the nearest rail of the railroad, and shall not proceed until
the train has passed.  The foregoing requirements shall apply when:



(1)  A clearly visible electric or mechanical signal
device gives warning of the immediate approach of a railroad train;



(2)  A crossing gate is lowered or when a human
flagperson gives or continues to give a signal of the approach or passage of a
train;



(3)  A railroad train approaching within approximately
fifteen hundred feet of the highway crossing emits a signal audible from that
distance and the railroad train, by reason of its speed or nearness to the
crossing, is an immediate hazard;



(4)  An approaching railroad train is approximately
within fifteen hundred feet of the crossing and is plainly visible and is in
hazardous proximity to the crossing.



(b)  No person shall drive any vehicle through,
around, or under any crossing gate or barrier at a railroad crossing while the
gate or barrier is closed or is being opened or closed. [L 1971, c 150, pt of
§1; gen ch 1985, 1993; am L 1997, c 156, §1]