Fenced right-of-way to be equipped with passageways and gates; responsibility of railroad.

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1. Every railroad corporation or company, in fencing its right-of-way, shall provide and maintain suitable passageways equipped with gates, except at watering holes, where openings with proper safeguards will be maintained.

2. Responsibility for measures toward prevention of unnecessary loss or injury to livestock upon railroad tracks or rights-of-way through construction and proper maintenance of suitable barriers, such as right-of-way fences and livestock guards or cattle guards at all openings or crossings through the right-of-way or track fences, or at each end of open cuts, shall lie with the owners of such railroads.

[5:88:1923; NCL § 6349]


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