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[CITE: 45USC797j]

 
                           TITLE 45--RAILROADS
 
                CHAPTER 16--REGIONAL RAIL REORGANIZATION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER VII--PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES
 
Sec. 797j. Preemption

    No State may adopt or continue in force any law, rule, regulation, 
order, or standard requiring the Corporation to employ any specified 
number of persons to perform any particular task, function, or 
operation, or requiring the Corporation to pay protective benefits to 
employees, and no State in the Region may adopt or continue in force any 
such law, rule, regulation, order, or standard with respect to any 
railroad in the Region.

(Pub. L. 93-236, title VII, Sec. 711, as added Pub. L. 97-35, title XI, 
Sec. 1143(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 667; amended Pub. L. 103-272, 
Sec. 7(b), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1379.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-272 struck out ``, the National Railroad Passenger 
Corporation, or the Amtrak Commuter Services Corporation'' before ``to 
employ any''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 741 of this title.
