Title 49, TransportationRelease 119-102
§20131 Restricted Access to Rolling Equipment
Title 49 › SUBTITLE V — RAIL PROGRAMS › PART A — SAFETY › CHAPTER 201 — GENERAL › SUBCHAPTER II — PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF SAFETY › § 20131
Summary
The Secretary of Transportation must make rules. When railroad employees (not train or yard crews) work on or between rolling equipment, every manual switch, including crossovers, must be set to stop movement and locked so only the same type of employees can remove it.
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Title 49, §20131
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The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe regulations and issue orders that may be necessary to require that when railroad carrier employees (except train or yard crews) assigned to inspect, test, repair, or service rolling equipment have to work on, under, or between that equipment, every manually operated switch, including each crossover switch, providing access to the track on which the equipment is located is lined against movement to that track and secured by an effective locking device that can be removed only by the class or craft of employees performing the inspection, testing, repair, or service.
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Historical and Revision Notes
Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 2013145:431(g) (1st sentence cl. (1)).Oct. 16, 1970, Pub. L. 91–458, 84 Stat. 971, § 202(g) (1st sentence cl. (1)); added July 8, 1976, Pub. L. 94–348, § 5(b), 90 Stat. 820. The words “within 180 days after July 8, 1976” are omitted as expired.
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49 U.S.C. § 20131
Title 49, Transportation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102