§11144 — Title 49 Transportation | U.S. Code

Summary

The Board can require railroads, their lessors, and companies that supply railcars to keep records in specific forms, including items about traffic, money, and the cars or services. Board staff with proper ID can visit and look at facilities and copy records from carriers, lessors, related companies, or car suppliers when the Board set the record form. The Board also decides how long those operating, accounting, and financial records must be kept.

Title 49, §11144

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(a)The Board may prescribe the form of records required to be prepared or compiled under this subchapter—

(1)by rail carriers and lessors, including records related to movement of traffic and receipts and expenditures of money; and

(2)by persons furnishing cars to or for a rail carrier providing transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Board under this part to the extent related to those cars or that service.

(b)The Board, or an employee designated by the Board, may on demand and display of proper credentials—

(1)inspect and examine the lands, buildings, and equipment of a rail carrier or lessor; and

(2)inspect and copy any record of—

(A)a rail carrier, lessor, or association;

(B)a person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with a rail carrier if the Board considers inspection relevant to that person’s relation to, or transaction with, that rail carrier; and

(C)a person furnishing cars to or for a rail carrier if the Board prescribed the form of that record.

(c)The Board may prescribe the time period during which operating, accounting, and financial records must be preserved by rail carriers, lessors, and persons furnishing cars.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 11144, Pub. L. 95–473, Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1426; Pub. L. 96–296, § 24(c), July 1, 1980, 94 Stat. 816, related to form, inspection, and preservation of records, prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a). See section 11144, 14122, and 15722 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 104–88, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.

§11144 Records: form; inspection; preservation