327G.11 PRIVATE FARM CROSSINGS. When a person owns farmland on both sides of a railway, or when a railway runs parallel with a public highway thereby separating a farm from such highway, the corporation owning or operating the railway, on request of the owner of the farmland, shall construct and maintain a safe and adequate farm crossing or roadway across the railway and right-of-way at such reasonable place as the owner of the farmland may designate. A private farm crossing established or installed pursuant to this section shall be used solely for farming or agricultural purposes.

         Section History: Early Form

         [R60, § 1329; C73, § 1268; C97, § 2022; S13, § 2022; C24, 27, 31,
      35, 39, § 8011; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, § 478.12;
      C77, 79, 81, § 327G.11] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         90 Acts, ch 1184, § 1
         Referred to in § 327G.81

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