14-434

Chapter 14.--CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS
PART I.--GOVERNMENT BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE TO CITIES OF THE SECOND CLASS

Article 4.--GENERAL POWERS OF GOVERNING BODY

     
14-434.   Levees; depot grounds; railway crossings; running of trains;
regulation of speed.
The council shall have power to regulate levees, depots, depot grounds,
and places of storing freight and goods, and to provide for the passage of
railways through the streets and public grounds of the city; also to
regulate the crossings of railway tracks and to provide precautions and
adopt ordinances regulating the same;
to regulate the running of railway engines and
cars, except speed, and to adopt ordinances relating thereto;
and to make any
other and further provisions, rules and restrictions to prevent accidents
at crossings, and on the tracks of railways, and to prevent fires from
engines.

     
On and after the effective date of this act,
that part or parts of
any rule, regulation or ordinance adopted pursuant to this section
regulating the speed of railway engines and cars shall not be of any force
or effect, and that part or parts shall be null and
void.

     
History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 64; R.S. 1923, § 14-434;
L. 1988, ch. 76, § 3;
L. 1998, ch. 164, § 4; July 1.