49 U.S.C. § 20131 — Restricted access to rolling equipment
submitted 32 years ago by Pub. L. 103-272 to r/title-49-TRANSPORTATION · 96 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary must require switches giving access to track occupied by inspecting or servicing employees to be lined away from that track and locked. Only the employees doing the work may remove the lock.
The Secretary of Transportation must prescribe regulations and issue orders that may be necessary to require that when railroad carrier employees (except train or yard crews) assigned to inspect, test, repair, or service rolling equipment have to work on, under, or between that equipment, every manually operated switch, including each crossover switch, providing access to the track on which the equipment is located is lined against movement to that track and secured by an effective locking device that can be removed only by the class or craft of employees performing the inspection, testing, repair, or service.
The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe regulations and issue orders that may be necessary to require that when railroad carrier employees (except train or yard crews) assigned to inspect, test, repair, or service rolling equipment have to work on, under, or between that equipment, every manually operated switch, including each crossover switch, providing access to the track on which the equipment is located is lined against movement to that track and secured by an effective locking device that can be removed only by the class or craft of employees performing the inspection, testing, repair, or service.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 872.)
- 1994Enacted · Pub. L. 103-272 · 108 Stat. 872
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 103-272 on 1994-07-05.
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