2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 81.40.100: Penalty for employing illiterate engineer — Penalty for illiterate person to act as engineer.

    Every person who, as an officer of a corporation or otherwise, shall knowingly employ as an engineer or engine driver, to run a locomotive or train on any railway, any person who cannot read time tables and ordinary handwriting; and every person who, being unable to read time tables and ordinary handwriting, shall act as an engineer or run a locomotive or train on any railway, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

    [1961 c 14 § 81.40.100. Prior: 1909 c 249 § 274; RRS § 2526.]

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