Ohio Code § 4951.45

§ 4951.45.

Any company or person having the control or management of an electric or street railway

or interurban railroad which operates its cars by electricity conducted through or

along a third rail shall construct, or cause to be constructed, and maintain in good

repair on each side of its right of way through which such third rail extends, a fence

sufficient to turn stock.  Such company or person shall cause to be maintained at every point where any public

road, street, lane, or highway crosses such railway or railroad, safe and sufficient

crossings, and on each side of such crossings cattleguards sufficient to prevent domestic

animals from going thereupon.  Such company or person is liable for all damages sustained in person or property

in any manner by reason of any neglect or carelessness in the construction or maintenance

of any such fence, crossing, or cattleguard, whether such damage is sustained from

the contact of said domestic animals with said cars or from contact with, or by reason

of, electricity passing through or along such third rail. Sections 4951.45 to 4951.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code , do not require the building and maintenance of such fence between the right of way

of such electric or street railway or interurban railroad, and the right of way of

any railroad or electric railway where said right of ways are parallel and abut upon

each other, and such railroad or electric railway maintains a fence on the opposite

side of its right of way.