§ 27-187. Railroad crossing signals and gates required and speed limit established.

(a)

The public crossings in the city where Liddle Avenue, or a continuation thereof, Pennsylvania Avenue, or a continuation thereof, West Hall Avenue, or a continuation thereof, and U.S. Highway No. 190, cross or intersect the right-of-way of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad, or the Southern Railway, are hereby declared to be dangerous public crossings and in need of protection for the general public.

(b)

Every railroad operating or controlling any railroad track at the public crossings declared in this section to be dangerous crossings shall erect and maintain at such crossings, on both sides of the railroad track, gates across the road, which shall be closed upon the approach of a train, so as to prevent traffic from using the crossing until the train has passed, and signal lights of such character as to effectively warn by means of automatic flashing devices of the approach and passage of railroad trains and the closing of such gates.

(Code 1966, § 12-6(a), (b))