Whenever the owner of any manufacturing establishment, industrial plant, warehouse, or when the governing authority of any municipality desires to have constructed an industrial switch as provided for in R.S. 45:356, such owner or the governing authority of the municipality, upon the failure or refusal of the railroad company having the right to build such switch to build same when requested, has the right to apply to the Louisiana Public Service Commission and the commission has authority to hear and determine the matter and require the railroad company to construct such industrial switch or spur tracks.
La. R.S. § 45:357