Relating to the payment of costs by railroad track owners and railroad corporations for certain railroad construction, maintenance, and other related projects

F.15 —— signals and gate arms at railway and highway crossings at grade).81). A railroad corporation is eligible to agree with the department of transportation (DOT) and the local government entity with jurisdiction over the relevant area about certain costs, and the DOT must assist with the project by paying a portion of the cost for the work, if moneys are available, from the highway railroad grade crossing surface repair fund. This bill requires the owner of a railroad track or a railroad corporation, as applicable, to bear the cost of the responsibilities detailed in the bill without assistance from the DOT or another governmental entity. The bill requires a railroad corporation that transfers a railroad right-of-way to a person who is not a railroad corporation to pay the costs associated with the related right-of-way improvements prior to the transfer, or on a schedule agreed to by the transferee. The bill strikes or repeals all provisions relating to the highway grade crossing safety fund and the highway railroad grade crossing surface repair fund. Any moneys remaining in the repealed funds are transferred to the road use tax fund.