Qualifications of locomotive engineers

(a) No railroad company operating trains in this state shall employ or allow in charge of any of its locomotives in this state, as a locomotive engineer (except locomotive engines used in yard service), any person who has not had at least three years’ actual experience as a fireman or an engineer on a railway locomotive, or who has not served an apprenticeship of four years in a regular railroad machine shop and had in addition thereto one year’s actual experience as a locomotive fireman. (b) Any railroad company which violates this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ga. L. 1908, p. 49, §§ 1, 2; Civil Code 1910, § 2696; Penal Code 1910, § 525; Code 1933, §§ 94-902, 94-9907.)