The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized, empowered, and required to hear and consider all petitions filed with it for establishment, discontinuance, enlargement, dualization, or modification of railroad train service, spurs, sidetracks, and platforms.
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-12-607
Petitions for establishment, discontinuance, modification, etc., of service — Authority of department
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Acme Brick Co. v. Missouri Pacific Railroad (1991)
Most recently applied in Potlatch Corp. v. Arkansas City School District (November 1992)
Acts 1907, No. 149, § 1, p. 356; 1907, No. 338, § 1, p. 821; C. & M
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.