Section 51. Repair of highways at railroad crossings

Whenever a highway
  crosses a railroad track at grade and such  grade  crossing  is  out  of
  repair, if it is the judgment of the commissioner of transportation, the
  board  of  supervisors of a county, the board of aldermen of a city, the
  board of trustees of a village or the town superintendent of highways of
  a  town  that  the  same  should  be  repaired,  the   commissioner   of
  transportation,  the  board  of  supervisors  of  a county, the board of
  aldermen of a city, the board of trustees  of  a  village  or  the  town
  superintendent of a town may repair and maintain the same and charge the
  expense  thereof  to  the  railroad  company  over  whose  railroad such
  crossing is repaired and maintained, if after fifteen  days'  notice  in
  writing such railroad company neglects or refuses to repair the same.