Sec.13b-17-162. Platforms

(a) Side clearances at freight platforms, except freight platforms adjacent to mainline or passing tracks, four feet or less above the top of the rail may be reduced to six feet, six inches on both sides of such track or on one side when the track center line distance to an adjacent track is not less than fourteen feet. A notice of limited clearance, approved by the commissioner of transportation, must be clearly posted at freight platform location with reduced clearance on both sides of the track.

(b) Platforms four feet, six inches or less above the top of the rail, when used principally for loading or unloading refrigerator cars, shall be constructed at least eight feet from the center line of track.

(c) Platforms previously constructed at less than the clearance herein prescribed may be extended at such existing clearance, unless extension is in connection with the reconstruction of the original platform.

(d) Low passenger platforms not over eight inches above the top of the rail shall not be less than five feet, two inches from the center line of track.

(e) High level passenger platforms not over four feet, two inches above the plane of the top of rails on adjacent track shall not be less than five feet, seven and one-half inches from the center line of track.

(Effective February 3, 1981)