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To amend section 5589.99 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
increase the penalties for the blocking of a | 2 |
highway railroad grade crossing by a train. | 3 |
Section 1. That section 5589.99 of the Revised Code be | 4 |
amended to read as follows: | 5 |
Sec. 5589.99. (A) Whoever violates section 5589.01 of the | 6 |
Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. | 7 |
(B) Whoever violates section 5589.02, 5589.03, 5589.05, | 8 |
5589.06, 5589.08, 5589.081, 5589.09, 5589.11, 5589.12, 5589.32, or | 9 |
5589.33 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. | 10 |
(C) Whoever violates section 5589.07 or 5589.10 of the | 11 |
Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. | 12 |
(D) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5589.21 of the | 13 |
Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and | 14 |
shall be fined as follows: | 15 |
(1) If the duration of the obstruction is longer than five | 16 |
minutes but less than or equal to thirty minutes, one thousand | 17 |
dollars; | 18 |
(2) Notwithstanding section 2929.31 of the Revised Code, if | 19 |
the duration of the obstruction is longer than thirty minutes, | 20 |
one thousand dollars plus an additional five hundred dollars for | 21 |
each five minute-period of obstruction or part thereof in excess | 22 |
of thirty minutes of obstruction. | 23 |
(E) Whoever violates section 5589.211 of the Revised Code is | 24 |
guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined | 25 |
five thousand dollars. | 26 |
Section 2. That existing section 5589.99 of the Revised Code | 27 |
is hereby repealed. | 28 |