277.990 Penalties.

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(1)Any railroad company that violates or permits any of its agents or employees to

violate any of the provisions of KRS 277.110, subsection

(1)of 277.160, 277.170,

277.180, 277.210, 277.230 or 277.300 shall, in addition to subjecting itself to any

damages that may be caused by such violation, be fined not less than one hundred

dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each offense, to be

recovered in the Franklin Circuit Court or in the circuit court of any county through

which the railroad operates a line of road.

(2)Any person who violates any of the provisions of subsection

(2)of KRS 277.160

shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than one hundred dollars

($100) for each offense.

(3)Any railroad company that violates, or permits any of its agents or employees to

violate, any of the provisions of KRS 277.190, shall, in addition to subjecting itself

to liability for any damage caused thereby, be fined not less than ten dollars ($10)

nor more than fifty dollars ($50) for each offense. Prosecutions under this

subsection shall not be commenced after six

(6)months from the commission of the

offense charged in the prosecution.

(4)Any person who violates any of the provisions of KRS 277.250 shall be fined fifty

dollars ($50) or imprisoned for thirty

(30)days, or both.

(5)Any owner or operator of a railroad running through or within this state as a

common carrier of persons or property or both, for compensation, who either

operates for its employees, or who furnishes to its employees for their transportation

to or from the place or places where they are required to labor, a rail track motor car

that has not been fully equipped as required by KRS 277.245, shall be fined not less

than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each

offense and each day or part of a day it operates or furnishes each of such rail track

motor cars not so equipped as provided in KRS 277.245 to its employees for

operation to or from the place or places where they are required to work shall

constitute a separate offense.

(6)Any railroad company that violates the provisions of KRS 277.200 shall be fined

not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for

each offense. If a grade crossing or drawbridge is obstructed by two

(2)or more

trains stopping and standing thereon in succession without allowing accumulated

highway or water traffic to pass, the obstruction by each such successive train shall

constitute a separate offense.