§ 32-4. Installation of watchmen, signals, etc.—When city council may order.

Whenever in the opinion of the city council the public safety shall demand the placing and maintenance of a watchman, automatic gates, signal bells or signal lights at the intersection of the track of any railroad company operated within the city with a public street, it shall be the duty of such railroad company to place and maintain at such crossing a watchman, automatic gates, signal bells or signal lights for the purpose of warning persons using the streets against approaching trains or engines and for the purpose of obstructing the preventing of such persons from coming in contact with the train or engine.

Whenever a watchman has been ordered placed at a street crossing by the city council, such watchman shall be kept on duty for such hours during the day and night as may be prescribed by the resolution ordering his maintenance at any particular crossing as provided for by the following section.

(Ord. No. 859, § 39-24)

State law reference

Signs at railroad crossings, V.T.C.A., Transportation Code § 471.002.