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[CITE: 49USC28301]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                        SUBTITLE V--RAIL PROGRAMS
 
                          PART E--MISCELLANEOUS
 
                     CHAPTER 283--STANDARD WORK DAY
 
Sec. 28301. General

    (a) Eight Hour Day.--In contracts for labor and service, 8 hours 
shall be a day's work and the standard day's work for determining the 
compensation for services of an employee employed by a common carrier by 
railroad subject to subtitle IV of this title and actually engaged in 
any capacity in operating trains used for transporting passengers or 
property on railroads from--
        (1) a State of the United States or the District of Columbia to 
    any other State or the District of Columbia;
        (2) one place in a territory or possession of the United States 
    to another place in the same territory or possession;
        (3) a place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country; 
    or
        (4) a place in the United States through a foreign country to 
    any other place in the United States.

    (b) Application.--Subsection (a) of this section--
        (1) does not apply to--
            (A) an independently owned and operated railroad not 
        exceeding one hundred miles in length;
            (B) an electric street railroad; and
            (C) an electric interurban railroad; but

        (2) does apply to an independently owned and operated railroad 
    less than one hundred miles in length--
            (A) whose principal business is leasing or providing 
        terminal or transfer facilities to other railroads; or
            (B) engaged in transfers of freight between railroads or 
        between railroads and industrial plants.

(Added Pub. L. 104-287, Sec. 5(56)(A), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3394.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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28301.................................  45:65.                           Sept. 
3, 5, 1916, ch. 436, Sec.  1, 39
                                                                          Stat.
 721.
                                        (uncodified).                    Sept. 
3, 5, 1916, ch. 436, Secs.  2, 3,
                                                                          39 St
at. 721.
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    In subsection (a), the word ``determining'' is substituted for 
``reckoning'' for clarity. The words ``who are not or may hereafter be 
employed'' are omitted as surplus. In clause (1), the words ``or 
territory'' are omitted because the existing territories of the United 
States are now connected to the United States by rail. In clause (2), 
the words ``or possession of the United States'' are added for 
consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United 
States Code.
    The text of sections 2 and 3 of the Act of September 3, 5, 1916 (ch. 
436, 39 Stat. 721), is omitted to eliminate executed provisions.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 28302 of this title.
