S.C. Code § 58-15-1670

Current through 2024 Act No. 209.
Section 58-15-1670 - Specifications as to overhead bridges and approaches

The grade of approaches to an overhead bridge shall be such as to keep the cost as low as practicable consistent with the standard design practice of the State Highway Commission and in no event shall the approaches to creosote timber overhead bridges be considered to extend more than five hundred feet from the outside track. The overhead bridge shall be so constructed as to give a vertical clearance of not less than twenty-two feet, six inches above the base of rail of railroad track and a horizontal clearance of not less than eight feet, measured from the center line of such track, and at right angles thereto, due allowance being made for curvature of track.

S.C. Code § 58-15-1670

1924 (33) 1057; 1932 Code Section 8440; 1942 Code Section 8465; 1952 Code Section 58-817; 1962 Code Section 58-817.