The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
002
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CROSSING HIGHWAYS
(Cite as: 5 V.S.A. § 3582)
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§ 3582. Crossings; use of audible warning device
(a) An audible warning device meeting standards prescribed by the Federal Railroad Administration
shall be sounded sufficiently in advance of each public highway grade crossing to
give warning of a train’s approach and shall be kept sounding until the train has
crossed the highway.
(b) [Repealed.]
(c) [Repealed.]
(d) A railroad operating a train over a crossing at which the Federal Railroad Administration
has approved establishment of a quiet zone under 49 C.F.R. Part 222 shall not, on the basis of its omission to sound an audible warning device, be liable
to any person for death, personal injury, or property damage resulting from use of
the crossing.
(e) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a railroad’s use of an audible warning device
in emergency circumstances.
(f) A municipality in which a crossing is located shall not, on the basis of the railroad’s
omission to sound an audible warning device because of a quiet zone established under
49 C.F.R. Part 222, incur liability to any person for death, personal injury, or property damage, resulting
from use of the crossing. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39(b), eff. March 1, 1961; 1993, No. 172 (Adj. Sess.), § 53b; 1995, No. 183 (Adj. Sess.), § 9a, eff. May 22, 1996; 1997, No. 150 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2023, No. 6, § 31, eff. July 1, 2023.)