PART 2. SAFEGUARDS ON RAILROADS [6800. - 7000.]
Part 2 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.
§§ 6800–7000 · 24 sections
CHAPTER 1. Jurisdiction §§ 6800–6802 · 3 sections
- § 6800 The division has jurisdiction over: (a) The safety and health of railroad employees employed in offices and in shops devoted to the construction, maintenance…
- § 6801 The jurisdiction vested in the division shall in no instance, except those affecting exclusively the safety of employees, impair, diminish, or in any way…
- § 6802 If the division makes or issues any order, decision, ruling or direction under this chapter which, in the judgment of the Public Utilities Commission, unduly…
CHAPTER 2. Operation Personnel §§ 6900–6910 · 13 sections
- § 6900 Notwithstanding Section 6800, the Public Utilities Commission shall enforce the provisions of this chapter.
- § 6900.1 This Act shall be known and cited as the Railroad Anti-Featherbedding Law of 1964.
- § 6900.5 It is the policy of the people of the State of California that featherbedding practices in the railroad industry should be eliminated and that national…
- § 6901 (a) No common carrier operating more than four trains each way per day of 24 hours on any main track or branch line of railroad within this state, or on any…
- § 6902 (a) For purposes of this section, “revenue service” means passenger train service during which passengers are carried or are scheduled to be carried. (b) For…
- § 6903 (a) Effective February 1, 2016, a train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight shall not be operated unless it has a crew consisting…
- § 6904 Nothing in this chapter shall apply to a locomotive or locomotives without cars, except that each locomotive shall have one engineer and one fireman when being…
- § 6905 This chapter shall not apply to any relief or wrecking train in any case where a number of employees sufficient to comply with this chapter is not available…
- § 6906 No common carrier shall employ any person as: (a) A locomotive engineer who has not had at least three years’ actual service as a locomotive fireman or one…
- § 6907 Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the running or operating of locomotives or motor power cars to and from trains at terminals by hostlers or of steam…
- § 6908 Any violation of this chapter is a misdemeanor.
- § 6909 Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the operation of any train by a common carrier during times of strikes or walkouts, participated in by any of the…
- § 6910 Nothing in this chapter shall apply to gasoline motor cars operated exclusively on branch lines or to trains of less than three cars propelled by electricity.
CHAPTER 3. Safety Devices §§ 6950–6956 · 7 sections
- § 6950 On any railroad train where the engine is accompanied by a tender of the Vanderbilt or similar type of construction and where the clearance between the…
- § 6951 Any railroad company operating a line in whole or in part within this state, or any receiver of any railroad, that fails to comply with any provision of…
- § 6952 Every railroad company operating engines within any part of this state shall provide each engine cab with a substantial and safe handrail along the top on each…
- § 6953 Any electric car operated in interurban service and any electric locomotive shall be equipped exclusively with laminated safety glass in the compartment of the…
- § 6954 On and after the first day of September, 1946, it shall be unlawful to operate any electric car in interurban service or any electric locomotive which is not…
- § 6955 Laminated safety glass is glass so treated or combined with other materials as to reduce, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass or plate glass, the…
- § 6956 Any common carrier violating Sections 6953 or 6954 is guilty of a misdemeanor for each violation, punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars…
CHAPTER 4. Trains § 7000 · 1 section
- § 7000 As used in this section “caboose” means a caboose forming a part of a train and occupied by employees or caretakers, or both. If conditions warrant it for the…