By Gray                                               H.B. No. 2988
       74R6810 JD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirement that the person in charge of a railroad
    1-3  locomotive sound a whistle, air whistle, or air siren and ring a
    1-4  bell at the intersection of the railway and certain roads and
    1-5  streets.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Article 6371, Revised Statutes, is amended to
    1-8  read as follows:
    1-9        Art. 6371.  Bell; Steam or Air Whistle or Siren; Sounding or
   1-10  Blowing.  A bell of at least thirty (30) pounds weight and a steam
   1-11  whistle, air whistle or air siren shall be placed on such
   1-12  locomotive engine, and the steam whistle, the air whistle or air
   1-13  siren shall be sounded and the bell rung at a distance of at least
   1-14  eighty (80) rods from the place where the railroad shall cross any
   1-15  <public> road or street that is not a private road or street with
   1-16  restricted access, and such bell shall be kept ringing until it
   1-17  shall have crossed such <public> road or street, or stopped; and
   1-18  each locomotive engine approaching a place where two lines of
   1-19  railway cross each other shall, before reaching such railway
   1-20  crossing be brought to a full stop; and the corporation operating
   1-21  such railways shall be liable for all damages which shall be
   1-22  sustained by any person by reason of any such neglect; the full
   1-23  stop at such crossing may be discontinued when the railroads
   1-24  crossing each other shall put into full operation at such crossing
    2-1  an interlocking switch and signal apparatus or shall have a flagman
    2-2  in attendance at such crossing.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.