Bill Text: OH HB376 | 2009-2010 | 128th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To increase the penalties for the blocking of a highway railroad grade crossing by a train.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-11-18 - To Transportation & Infrastructure [HB376 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2009-HB376-Introduced.html
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Representatives Bolon, Wagner
Cosponsors:
Representatives Adams, J., Blessing, Boose, Combs, Evans, Fende, Grossman, Huffman, Murray, Newcomb, Ujvagi, Yuko
| To amend section 5589.99 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
| increase the penalties for the blocking of a | 2 |
| highway railroad grade crossing by a train. | 3 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 5589.99 of the Revised Code be | 4 |
| amended to read as follows: | 5 |
| Sec. 5589.99. (A) Whoever violates section 5589.01 of the | 6 |
| Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. | 7 |
| (B) Whoever violates section 5589.02, 5589.03, 5589.05, | 8 |
| 5589.06, 5589.08, 5589.081, 5589.09, 5589.11, 5589.12, 5589.32, or | 9 |
| 5589.33 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. | 10 |
| (C) Whoever violates section 5589.07 or 5589.10 of the | 11 |
| Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. | 12 |
| (D) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5589.21 of the | 13 |
| Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and | 14 |
| shall be fined as follows: | 15 |
| (1) If the duration of the obstruction is longer than five | 16 |
| minutes but less than or equal to thirty minutes, one thousand | 17 |
| dollars; | 18 |
| (2) Notwithstanding section 2929.31 of the Revised Code, if | 19 |
| the duration of the obstruction is longer than thirty minutes, | 20 |
| one thousand dollars plus an additional five hundred dollars for | 21 |
| each five minute-period of obstruction or part thereof in excess | 22 |
| of thirty minutes of obstruction. | 23 |
| (E) Whoever violates section 5589.211 of the Revised Code is | 24 |
| guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined | 25 |
| five thousand dollars. | 26 |
| Section 2. That existing section 5589.99 of the Revised Code | 27 |
| is hereby repealed. | 28 |
