Okla. Stat. tit. 66, § 66-125a
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Railroads - Highway crossings - Safety devices
Official statutory text
Whenever the public authorities having jurisdiction and control
over any public highway or street in this state shall deem that the
safety of lives and property at any railroad intersection with any
highway or street, shall so require, such public authorities as are
hereby authorized and empowered to construct or install, or to order
the company owning such railroad so intersected, to construct or
install, and thereafter maintain and operate, an automatic or
mechanically operated barricading device, which, when giving
warning, shall become a barrier in such highway or street; provided,
however, that before any such device is constructed or installed,
maintained and operated at a railroad intersection, the detailed
plans of such device, with a description of the proposed mode of
operation thereof, and a map showing the proposed location of the
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same, shall be first submitted to, and approved by, the State
Highway Commission of Oklahoma.
over any public highway or street in this state shall deem that the
safety of lives and property at any railroad intersection with any
highway or street, shall so require, such public authorities as are
hereby authorized and empowered to construct or install, or to order
the company owning such railroad so intersected, to construct or
install, and thereafter maintain and operate, an automatic or
mechanically operated barricading device, which, when giving
warning, shall become a barrier in such highway or street; provided,
however, that before any such device is constructed or installed,
maintained and operated at a railroad intersection, the detailed
plans of such device, with a description of the proposed mode of
operation thereof, and a map showing the proposed location of the
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 66. Railroads Page 24
same, shall be first submitted to, and approved by, the State
Highway Commission of Oklahoma.
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