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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 45USC60]

 
                           TITLE 45--RAILROADS
 
             CHAPTER 2--LIABILITY FOR INJURIES TO EMPLOYEES
 
Sec. 60. Penalty for suppression of voluntary information 
        incident to accidents; separability
        
    Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose, 
intent, or effect of which shall be to prevent employees of any common 
carrier from furnishing voluntarily information to a person in interest 
as to the facts incident to the injury or death of any employee, shall 
be void, and whoever, by threat, intimidation, order, rule, contract, 
regulation, or device whatsoever, shall attempt to prevent any person 
from furnishing voluntarily such information to a person in interest, or 
whoever discharges or otherwise disciplines or attempts to discipline 
any employee for furnishing voluntarily such information to a person in 
interest, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not 
more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or by both 
such fine and imprisonment, for each offense: Provided, That nothing 
herein contained shall be construed to void any contract, rule, or 
regulation with respect to any information contained in the files of the 
carrier, or other privileged or confidential reports.
    If any provision of this chapter is declared unconstitutional or the 
applicability thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, 
the validity of the remainder of the chapter and the applicability of 
such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected 
thereby.

(Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, Sec. 10, as added Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 685, 
Sec. 3, 53 Stat. 1404.)
