§11-48-19. Assessment of costs of improvements against railroads.

If there is a street, electric, or other railroad track or tracks on any street or highway improved or reimproved under this article, the cost of such improvement, except storm water and sanitary sewers, between the tracks and the rails of the tracks and, in case there are two or more tracks, the space between such tracks and 18 inches on each side of the tracks, including switches and turnouts, shall be paid by the owner of the railroad and shall be assessed against and form a lien on said railroad and the property connected therewith and, in the event that storm water sewers are constructed which drain, serve or benefit the streets or avenues or rights-of-way on which a street, electric, or other railroad is located, whether the same is a continued or separate system, there shall be assessed against such railroad a fair and just proportion of the cost of construction of such sewer, to be determined by the council, and such assessment shall be a lien like other assessments and may be collected in like manner, and the council may require the owners of such street railroad or other railroad to prepare or construct its tracks for the receipt of such paving or other improvements in a manner satisfactory to the council.

In the event that seawalls or other protection against waves, storms and floods are constructed which protect or benefit streets or avenues or rights-of-way on which a street, electric, or other railroad is located, whether the same is a continued or separate system, there shall be assessed against such railroad a fair and just proportion of the cost of construction of such seawall or other protection against waves, storms, and floods, to be determined by the council, and such assessment shall be a lien like other assessments and may be collected in like manner; provided, however, that such assessments shall not exceed the increased value of such railroad by reason of the benefits received by such railroad from the construction of such seawall.

(Code 1907, §1374; Code 1923, §2189; Acts 1927, No. 639, p. 753; Code 1940, T. 37, §528.)