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.