§ 26-6. Trains blocking crossings.  


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  • It shall be unlawful for any person, or any official of a corporation responsible for the operation of trains, to park or leave standing engines, railroad cars or any other vehicle or equipment on a railroad track within 300 feet of its intersection with a parish-maintained road where two or more tracks cross the road at the same crossing and where such crossing is not protected by an electronic crossing signal; provided, however, that such restriction shall not apply to the parking of engines, railroad cars or any other vehicles or equipment on such railroad track as a part of and incidental to the breaking up of railroad trains in the course of ordinary switching operations, only if a flagman is directing traffic; nor shall such restriction apply to the parking of railroad cars upon any privately owned tracks situated upon the premises of any place of business in the course of providing railroad services to that place of business.

(Code 1976, § 11-4.1; Code 1985, § 14-9)