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Current as of January 01, 2023 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
Whenever any person owning or operating a railroad in Louisiana, desires to extend, construct, maintain and operate an industrial switch track or spur track across the side tracks, switch tracks, spur tracks or main line of any other railroad operated in Louisiana, it may intersect and cross, with such industrial switch track or spur track, the main line, side tracks, switch tracks or spur tracks of the railroad which it desires to cross, and may expropriate such land and other property, including the land and property of the railroad it desires to cross, as may be necessary for the purpose, in the manner provided by the general expropriation laws of this state.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 45, § 356. Crossing other railroads with industrial switch or spur track; expropriation - last updated January 01, 2023 | https://codes.findlaw.com/la/revised-statutes/la-rev-stat-tit-45-sect-356/
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