[Adopted 2-24-88 as Ord. No. 0-2-88]
The Township of Winslow finds that for the public health, safety
and general welfare of its citizens, where there is an absence of
protection and safeguard, any railroad company shall be bound to regulate
the speed of its trains along streets to no more than thirty-nine
(39) miles per hour.
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
PROTECTION AND SAFEGUARD
A fence or embankment four (4) feet high and sufficiently
close and strong to prevent children and horses from going through
the same, along a railroad roadway where the same adjoins a public
highway or where the railway tracks shall be laid in a cut at least
four (4) feet deep, and where the railroad company has provided on
each side of the track at any highway crossing in such city a gate
of like height and sufficiency and causes the same to be closed at
least half a minute before any train crosses such highway and until
the train shall have passed by.