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[CITE: 49USC20131]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                        SUBTITLE V--RAIL PROGRAMS
 
                             PART A--SAFETY
 
                          CHAPTER 201--GENERAL
 
               SUBCHAPTER II--PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF SAFETY
 
Sec. 20131. Restricted access to rolling equipment

    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.

(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 872.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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20131.................................  45:431(g) (1st sentence cl.      Oct. 1
6, 1970, Pub. L. 91-458, 84 Stat.
                                         (1)).                            971, 
Sec.  202(g) (1st sentence cl.
                                                                          (1));
 added July 8, 1976, Pub. L. 94-
                                                                          348, 
Sec.  5(b), 90 Stat. 820.
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    The words ``within 180 days after July 8, 1976'' are omitted as 
expired.
