2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 13b-354a. Maintenance of margins alongside tracks and rights-of-way. Filing complaint by railroad labor representative. Regulations.
Sec. 13b-354a. Maintenance of margins alongside tracks and rights-of-way.
Filing complaint by railroad labor representative. Regulations. (a) Every railroad
shall maintain and keep clear of debris the margins alongside their tracks on their right-of-way and alongside their yard tracks used for switching operations where railroad
employees are required to walk in the course of their duties. Such margins constitute
the area between the ends of the ties and a distance of nine feet on either side of the
center line of any track in any yard. Each railroad shall keep the area around any switch
in any such yard clear of debris for a distance of nine feet on either side of the center
line of any tracks wherein any such switch is located. Such debris shall include, but not
be limited to, used or discarded brake shoes, air hoses, railroad ties, or portions thereof,
parts of railroad cars or locomotives, lumber and oil, grease or waste of any type. Debris
does not include track materials being placed on or removed from the tracks under
maintenance or replacement programs concerning which the railroad has notified its
employees of the presence and location of such materials.
(c) The Department of Transportation shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, to carry out the provisions of this section.
(P.A. 89-372, S. 3, 4; P.A. 03-115, S. 79.)
History: P.A. 03-115 amended Subsec. (c) to make a technical change.
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