- (a) Within 30 days after written notice, served in the same manner as a summons in district court, from the governing body of a statutory city containing 250 inhabitants or more, a railroad company shall provide platforms at stations as required by the city and at other stations and sidings when required by the commissioner of transportation.
(b) These platforms must:
- (1) be immediately alongside of the railroad company's tracks or sidetracks;
- (2) have approaches at each end;
- (3) be suitable and convenient for loading and unloading heavy machinery and other freight upon and from the railroad company's cars;
- (4) be at least 12 feet wide, strongly built, and floored with planking at least three inches thick;
- (5) be at least 32 feet long, exclusive of approaches;
- (6) be the height of the floor of an ordinary boxcar; and
- (7) have approaches of such grade that heavily loaded vehicles and equipment can be driven on them.
- (c) Any company failing to comply with this section shall forfeit to the state not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 for every 30 days that the failure continues.